The Un/Making of Latina/o Citizenship Culture, Politics, and Aesthetics

Examining popular culture, literature, photography, television, and visual art, The Un/Making of Latina/o Citizenship: Culture, Politics, and Aesthetics sheds light on the misrepresentations of Latina/os in the mass media. Shaping a critical discussion of Latina/o culture that is hopeful, contributors to this collection map out the tenuous relationship between experiences of self-representation and actual liberation and explore Latina/os as represented in mass media versus their daily lives. By clearly dividing these (mis) representations, this volume imagines a better future for Latina/os in the United States.

Ellie D. Hernandez is Associate Professor of Chicana/o Studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara, USA, where she teaches and writes extensively on cultural studies, citizenship, transnational Chicana/o and Latina/o cultural production as well as issues of gender and sexuality. She is also the author of Postnationalism in Chicana/o Literature and Culture.
 
Eliza Rodriguez y Gibson is Assistant Professor of Chicana/o Studies at Loyola Marymount University, USA, where she teaches and writes about Chicana/o and Latina/o cultural politics in television, film, and popular culture. She is the editor of Stunned Into Being: Essays on the Poetry of Lorna Dee Cervantes.

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