Description
Examining a wide range of source material including popular culture, literature, photography, television, and visual art, this collection of essays sheds light on the misrepresentations of Latina/os in the mass media.
Table of Contents
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
