Full Description
Gender on the Borderlands captures the intense, complex, and gendered experience of those living along the barbwire borderlands of Mexico and the United States. Through scholarship, testimonials, oral histories, songs, poetry, and art, the contributors reclaim the borderlands from the distortions and violence of "official" history and continue the recovery of a gendered Chicana/Chicano history begun by Gloria Anzaldúa in Borderlands/La Frontera more than twenty years ago. Both noted and new scholars reweave the fabric of collective, family, and individual history with a legacy of agency and activism in the borderlands in these twenty-one original selections. Contributors explore themes of homeland, sexuality, language, violence, colonialism, and political resistance within the most recent frameworks of Chicana/Chicano inquiry. Art as social critique, culture as a human right, labor activism, racial plurality, Indigenous knowledge, and strategies of decolonization all vitalize these selections edited by one of the country's most respected historians of the borderlands, Antonia Castañeda. From Aztec cosmology to globalization, Gender on the Borderlands unites the past with the present and the future to reclaim and transform the gendered, transnational domain along the Mexico-U.S. border.
Contents
Introduction: Gender on the Borderlands - Antonia CastañedaPart I. Claiming"There is great good in returning": A Testimonio from the Borderlands - Yolanda Chavez LeyvaAn Aztec Two-Spirit Cosmology: Re-sounding Nahuatl Masculinities, Elders, Femininities, and Youth - Gabriel S. EstradaPart 2. ContextualizingGender on the Borderlands: Re-textualizing the Classics - Deena J. GonzalezDocile Children and Dangerous Revolutionaries: The Racial Hierarchy of Manliness and the Bisbee Deportation of 1917 - Katherine Benton-CohenTransborder Discourse: The Articulation of Gender in the Borderlands in the Early Twentieth Century - Clara LomasPart 3. Revisioning, Performing, LiberatingLa Cultura, la Comunidad, la Familia, y la Libertad - Graciela I. SanchezPerformance Artist Maria Elena Gaitan: Mapping a Continent without Borders (Epics of Gente Atravesada, Traviesa, y Entremetida) - Yolanda Broyles-GonzalezBorderlands Critical Subjectivity in Recent Chicana Art - Judith L. HuacjaPart 4. ExcavatingQueering the Borderlands: The Challenges of Excavating the Invisible and Unheard - Emma Perezrasgos asiaticos - Virginia GriseOnly Strong Women Stayed: Women Workers and the National Floral Workers Strike, 1968-1969 - Priscilla FalconPart 5. Living San AntonioUna Historia de Una de Muchas Marias - Maria Antonietta BerriozabalRosita Fernandez: La Rosa de San Antonio - Debroah R. VargasEsperanza v. City of San Antonio: Politics, Power, and Culture - Amy KastelyCarolina Munguia and Emma Tenayuca: The Politics of Benevolence and Radical Reform - Gabriela GonzalezMaria and Emma - Maria Antonietta BerriozabalLa Pasionaria (poetry) - Carmen TafollaMujeres de San Antonio: Murals of Ema Tenayuca, Corazones de la Comunidad, and Rosita Fernanez (art) - Theresa A. YbanezPart 6. GlobalizingGlobalization and Its Discontents: Exposing the Underside - Evelyn Hu-DeHartBuscando La Vida: Mexican Immigrant Women's Memories of Home, Yearning, and Border Crossings - Maria de la Luz IbarraImmensa Fe en la Victoria: Social Justice through Education - Anita Tijerina RevillaContributorsIndex
