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Chicana/Latina Studies volume 16 number 1 (Fall 2016)
Author: Sarah Ortegon Title: Artist Statement: Four Directions Abstract: none available Pages: 10 - 14 click to view article
Authors: Gloria H Cuádraz and C. Alejandra Elenes Title: Editors' Commentary: We Are All "Under one Moon" Abstract: none available Pages: 20 - 27 click to view article
Author: Marisa Elena Duarte Title: Uneven Exchanges: Borderlands Violence and the Search for Peace at Sand Creek Abstract: Woven into the social fabric of everyday life, borderlands violence is a perilous accumulation of fault-finding and Othering that, in the US, has rendered Indigenous women, children, and elders the most vulnerable subjects of state-sanctioned allowable violence. When the Northwestern University and Denver University committees released their reports on John Evans's culpability in the 1864 massacre of an entire peace-seeking community of Cheyenne and Arapaho families, perhaps many of us were hoping for a shred of a confession. Instead what we are left with is the story of an overwhelmed businessman, a self-aggrandizing military killer, a frigid Colorado winter, and scores of reopened wounds as we realize we lack the epistemic capacity to contain all of the stories of those who died there, those who killed there, those who survived, and those who profited from this massacre in distinctive and inexplicable ways. As Indigenous feminists, one of our weapons in the war against forgetting is the practice of subversive lucidity, in which we restore epistemic justice by sifting through the record of violence and resiliency to find the threads to weave a healthier future for our women and children. Pages: 30 - 53 click to view article
Author: Jillian Báez Title: Voicing Citizenship: Undocumented Women and Social Media Abstract: This essay explores how voice is mediated by social media through case studies of two highly visible undocumented women in the immigrant rights movement. Through a rhetorical analysis of the Facebook pages and blogs of the case studies, the essay documents the possibilities and constraints of deploying marginalized voices on social media. Ultimately, I argue that social media, as interactive and accessible platforms, enable these women to voice claims to citizenship in more nuanced and unconventional ways than in traditional media outlets. In particular, social media make it possible for these women to use multiple, and sometimes contradictory, voices that challenge conventional notions of citizenship and function as an addendum to more limited messages in traditional media outlets and demonstrations. Pages: 56 - 83 click to view article
Author: Ariana Vigil Title: Heterosexualization and the State: The Poetry of Gloria Anzaldúa Abstract: This paper examines how several poems by the late Gloria Anzaldúa offer a compelling portrait of the role of sexuality in relationship to colonialism, neocolonialism, and state formation. Through a reading of "We Call Them Greasers," "Cervicide," and "Yo no fuí, fue Teté," the essay argues that Anzaldúa pinpoints how heterosexualization and heterosexism have been violently imposed on the bodies and psyches of Chicanas and Chicanos in the service of Anglo and patriarchal social, political, and economic hegemony. Considering these works in relationship to contemporary Chicana and Latina feminist theory, I demonstrate that Anzaldúa's poetry, an under-studied aspect of her work and thought, takes up questions of gender, violence, and sexuality from a perspective that connects processes of racialized heterosexualization from the Conquest to our present moment. Pages: 86 - 109 click to view article
Author: Lorena Muñoz Title: Latina Immigrant Vendors' Mestiza Consciousness Abstract: This paper is based on the stories of queer Latina immigrant street vendors, collected from 2004 through 2014, for my study on the production of Latinx Immigrant street vending landscapes in Los Angeles. I analytically entangle Bar Tasco [a Latinx immigrant gay bar in Los Angeles] in relation to the oral histories of Gisela and Yolandaâ€”two queer Latina vendors in my study. I build on Anzaldúa's (1987) framework of mestizo consciousness by elucidating how the vendor's space and place are entangled with the collisions of social worlds, which crash in violent ways and produce new ways of adapting, producing and knowing/understanding the world we live in. Anzaldúa reads the collisions of social worlds as possibilities of agency and awareness of multiple oppressions that can be converted towards mestiza consciousness. By extrapolating the material and nonmaterial processes that temporally collide between bodies, ideologies, emotions and state forces, I analyze how Latina immigrant street vendors' bodies are in constant collisions with social worlds that often produce wounds, pain and ruptures from habitus. Pages: 110 - 132 click to view article
Author: Patricia Trujillo Title: Editor's Commentary: Words to Heal Abstract: none available Pages: 136 - 138 click to view article
Author: Yolanda Nieves Title: Handkerchief De Algodón Abstract: none available Pages: 140 - 141 click to view article
Author: Yolanda Nieves Title: Sojourner Abstract: none available Pages: 142 - 143 click to view article
Author: Yolanda Nieves Title: Sueño Is Reality Abstract: none available Pages: 144 - 146 click to view article
Author: Isabel Kathryn Ball Title: Where the Metal Meets My Hand Abstract: none available Pages: 148 - 157 click to view article
Author: Anita Rodriguez Title: The Last Story Abstract: none available Pages: 158 - 161 click to view article
Author: Lydia A Saravia Title: Mi Tía: Stories of a Murdered Scholar in Guademala Abstract: none available Pages: 162 - 168 click to view article
Author: Cordelia E Barrera Title: *Book Review: Barrio Dreams: Selected Plays* by Silviana Wood** Abstract: Barrio Dreams: Selected Plays by Silviana Wood. Eds. Norma E. Cantú and Rita E. Urquijo-Ruiz. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2016. Pp. 362. $ 24.95 (paper). Pages: 172 - 174 click to view article
Author: Elisa Facio Title: Book Review: Family Activism: Immigrant Struggles and the Politics of Noncitizenship Abstract: Family Activism: Immigrant Struggles and the Politics of Noncitizenship. By Amalia Pallares. New Brunswick, New Jersey, and London: Rutgers University Press, 2015. Pp. 192. $27.95 (paper, Web PDF, or EBook). Pages: 176 - 178 click to view article

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