Nepantla Squared

Linda Heidenreich is an associate professor of history and of women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at Washington State University. They are the author of “This Land Was Mexican Once”: Histories of Resistance from Northern California and coeditor of Three Decades of Engendering History: Selected Works of Antonia I. CastaÑeda.

• List of Illustrations    Acknowledgments    Introduction: History as Nepantla2    Chapter One. A World Created through Motion    Chapter Two. Motion-Change in the Life and Times of Jack Mugarrieta Garland    Chapter Three. NAFTA and Generative Movement in the Sixth Sun    Chapter Four. Motion-Change in the Life and Times of Gwen Amber Rose Araujo    Chapter Five. Nepantler@s of the Sixth Sun    Conclusion: Into the Sixth Sun    Notes    Bibliography    Index

“[A] compelling contribution to how we understand trans and Latinx identities, urgently addressing the question of how gendered embodiment is conditioned by sociopolitical factors.”-Marcos Gonsalez, Los Angeles Review of Books"Well written, insightful, and thought provoking, Heidenreich's work is an important contribution to several fields, including Chicanx studies and history, and Trans studies and history. It is a must-read for those interested in the history of transmestiz@ identity and history in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands."-Yvette J Saavedra, New Mexico Historical Review “This queer Chicanx history project is everything such a project should be: a brilliant analysis with fresh and illuminating ideas and approaches, an unearthing of hidden trans stories, and an intellectual exploration of trans mestiz@ identity.”-Norma E. CantÚ, Norine R. and T. Frank Murchison Professor of the Humanities at Trinity University “Nepantla Squared is a welcome and refreshing contribution to intersectional trans, queer, and feminist histories of resistant gender. Linda Heidenreich provides a new depth of context to famous stories of anti-trans violence and resistance, like those of Jack Garland and Gwen Araujo, showing how these are stories about colonialism, capitalism, and neoliberal economic policy. Heidenreich’s writing is pleasurably readable and the book is insightful and original.”-Dean Spade, author of Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of Law “Historical, materialist, and timely, this book adds new important ways of understanding trans in different historical moments and through nonbinary mestiz@ indigenous roots and routes in the Americas.”-Kale Bantigue Fajardo, author of Filipino Crosscurrents: Oceanographies of Seafaring, Masculinities, and Globalization