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The banning of Mexican-American Studies and censorship of Chican@-authored books in Arizona were part of a succession of anti-Mexican and anti-Chican@ policies that were enacted across the state and in the education system. The counterstories offered through these classes and literature not only created a sense of cultural inclusion, but ignited a political and activist consciousness among the mostly Chican@ youth, and reinvigorated conversations among educators about the teaching of race, ethnicity, and culture in the classroom, particularly through youth literature. While most work on youth literature has emphasized "multicultural" literature as a means of being inclusive, Voices of Resistance: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Chican@ Children's Literature recognizes that our present moment--one that is rife with continued anti-Mexican sentiment but that has given rise to our first Chicano National Poet Laureate--demands a more focused study of children's and young adult literature by and about Chican@s. This collection re-examines how we view multicultural and diversity literature and recognize literature that invites social transformation. Using multi- and interdisciplinary perspectives to critically examine a wide range of Chican@ children's pictures book and young adult novels, this collection reaffirms Chicano@ children's literature as a means to achieve equity and social change.
Contents
Foreword- U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera
Introduction
Section One: Tracing Chican@ Identity and Consciousness
Chapter 1- Entre Tejana y Chicana: Tracing Proto-Chicana Identity and Consciousness in Tejana Young Adult Fiction and Poetry
Larissa M. Mercado-Lopez
Chapter 2- Imagineering a Mexican American Girl: Josefina Montoya (1824)
Patricia Trujillo
Chapter 3- A Bone to Pick: Día de los Muertos in Children's Literature
Roxana Loza and Tanya González
Chapter 4- Águila: Personal Reflections on Reading Chicanx Picturebooks from the Inside Out
Lettycia Terrones
Section Two: Negotiating Gender and Sexuality
Chapter 5- A Portrait of the Artist as a Muchachito: Sense, Sensibility, and the Poetic Transcendence of Masculinity in Juan Felipe Herrera's Downtown Boy
Phillip Serrato
Chapter 6- Not So Sweet Quince: Teenage Angst and Mother-Daughter Strife in Belinda Acosta's Young Adult Novel, Damas, Dramas, and Ana Ruiz
Cristina Herrera
Chapter 7- You wanna be a chump/or a champ?: Constructions of Masculinity, Absent Fathers, and Conocimiento in Juan Felipe Herrera's Downtown Boy
Sonia Alejandra Rodriguez
Chapter 8- Phantasmagoric Eroticisms: Imagining Queertopias in Chicana/o Children's Literature
Cecilia Aragon
Section Three: Transformative Pedagogies: Reflections from Inside and Outside the Classroom
Chapter 9- Chillante Pedagogy, 'She Worlds,' and Testimonio as Text/Image: Toward a Chicana Feminist Pedagogy in the works of Maya Christina Gonzalez
Elena Aviles
Chapter 10- Was it All a Dream? Chicana/o Children and Mestiza Consciousness in Super Cilantro Girl (2003) and Tata's Gift (2014)
Katherine Elizabeth Bundy
Chapter 11- Translanguaging con mi abuela: Chican@ Children's Literature as a Means to Elevate Language Practices in Our Homes
Laura Alamillo
Chapter 12- Identity Texts in Linguistically and Culturally Sustaining Classrooms: Chican@ Children's Literature, Student Voice and Belonging
Lilian Cibils, Virginia Gallegos, Enrique Avalos, and Fabian Martinez
