Un/Making of Latina/o Citizenship

Alicia Gaspar de Alba, University of California, Los Angeles, USAPeter J. García, California State University, Northridge, USAChela Sandoval, University of California, Santa Barbara, USAJuan D. Mah y Busch, Loyola Marymount University, USAKristie Soares, University of California, Santa Barbara, USAAraceli Esparza, California State University, Long Beach, USACathryn Josefina Merla-Watson, University of Texas , San Antonio, USAElla Maria Diaz, Cornell University, USAWilliam A. Calvo, University of California, Santa Barbara, USAIrene Mata, Wellesley College, USA

• Introduction; Ellie D. Hernández and Eliza Rodriguez y Gibson 1. Dyad or Dialectic? Deconstructing Chicana/Latina Identity Politics; Alicia Gaspar de Alba 2. Drag Racing the Neoliberal Circuit: Latina/o Camp and the Contingencies of Resistance; Eliza Rodriguez y Gibson 3. Twenty-First Century New Mexican Road Trip: Reclaiming Ceremony, Music, Time and Land; Chela Sandoval and Peter J. García 4. The Importance of the Heart in Chicana Artistry: Aesthetic Struggle, Aisthesis, 'Freedom"; Juan Mah y Busch 5. The Political Implications of Playing Hopefully: A Negotiation of the Present and the Utopic in Queer Theory and Latina/o Literature; Kristie Soares 6. Cherríe Moraga's Changing Consciousness of Solidarity; Araceli Esparza 7. Revolutionary Love: Bridging Differential Terrains of Empire; Cathyrn Josefina Merla-Watson 8. The Postmodern Monument: An Analysis of Citizenship, Representation, and Monuments in Three Acts; Ella Maria Diaz 9. Sucking Vulnerability: Neoliberalism, the Chupacabras, and the Post Cold-War Years; William Calvo 10. Pictures of Resistance: Recasting Labor and Immigration in the Global City; Irene Mata

"In their very readable collection The Un/Making of Latina/o Citizenship: Culture, Politics and Aesthetics, Hernandez and Rodriguez y Gibson have compiled a list of scholars who are innovative thinkers, insightful academicians, and passionate writers unafraid to examine, to rethink the shifting and fluidity of what is meant, or not, by Latinidad. They discuss our complicated cultural currency from past to potential, traveling from the academic theory to everyday politics, from literature to media, holding together complete oppositions while reexamining their useful convergences. As an artist, I feel I can finally read theoretical frameworks that make sense to me, that excite me, that discomfort me, that reclaim a language ripe with metaphor and realm of cultural power. This collection should be on the bookshelf of every scholar and artist whose has been given the task - whether in art as in theory - to decolonize the imaginary, one word at a time." - Helena Maria Viramontes, Professor of English, Cornell University, USA