I am *so* hyped for this book (and to be part of it)!
Sneak peak of the cover. It comes out in June.
Table of Contents
Introduction, Grisel Y. Acosta
I. Ideology and Class
1. “Punks and Hipsters: Latina Outsiders Remaking Latina Identity,” Grisel Y. Acosta
2. “The child is bewitched”: Syncretism and Self-Making in Cristina García’s Dreaming in Cuban,” Alexander Lalama
3. “Coritos for Las de Afuera,” Carolina Hinojosa-Cisneros
4. “The Journey of a Sexy Nerd—Antes Muerte Que Sencilla,” Connie Pertuz
5. “Just for Standing Out,” Toni Plummer
6. “Activism is Not a Phase: Testimonio of a Radical Xicana Ph.D.,” Irene M. Sánchez
7. “Playing Chola: The Discourse of Subjects and Subject-Selves,” Veronica Sandoval
8. “Caravan” Grisel Y. Acosta
9. “Ruidosas to the Front: Alice Bag and the Construction of Violence Girl,” Sarah Dowman
II. Gender/Sexuality
10. “Loving Latinas: When Questioning Sexuality Means Questioning Latinidad,” Sarah Paruolo
11. “Returning to the Bronx: Gender Fluidity and Coming of Age in Juliet Takes a Breath,” Grisel Y. Acosta
12. “Separación,” Luis Lopez-Maldonado
13. “Catcalls to My Brain,” Nancy Mercado
14. “Between and Beyond the Mediated and the Material in Teatro Luna’s Generation Sex,” Melissa Huerta
15. “Permission,” Stephanie Jimenez
16. “The Lunasole Class,” Stephanie Laterza
17. “Parts of an Autobiography,” Carmen Giménez Smith
18. “Every woman keeps a flame against the wind,” Kristen Millares Young
III. Race/Ethnicity
19. “Dear Barbara T. y Gloria E.: Found Auto-ethnographic Letters to Afro-Latinx Nepantla Acrobats,” Monique Guishard
20. “Haciendo Caras: The Alter-Native Illuminations of Laura Varela and Vaago Weiland’s Enlight-Tent,” Cathryn Merla-Watson
21. “On the Threshold: A Latina English Professor,” M. Soledad Caballero
22. “My English Victorian Dating Troubles,” Analicia Sotelo
23. “What was the passion fruit named before the Europeans renamed it?,” and “Excused Absences” Aline Mello
24. “Inlaws, Outlaws,” Anna Padilla-Davis
25. “Yo Soy Boricua Feminista, Pa’que Tu Lo Sepas!: Notes from a DiaspoRican on Performing Outsider Identity,” Jessica Pabón-Colón
IV. Disability
26. “Latina Liberation: A Conversation of Soul, Sacred Well-Being & Wholeness,” Gloria Rodriguez
27. “Pa’Que Sepan,” Vanessa Alviso
28. “The Symbology of the Derailed Mind,” Angela Gonzalez-Gartelman
29. “Poison and Monsters,” Jiovanna Pérez
30. “Stroke,” Nova Gutierrez
31. “You Either See Me or You Don’t,” Joanmaris Cuello
V. Loneliness, Solitude, and the Unspeakable
32. “My Mother as the Voice of Frida Kahlo,” Analicia Sotelo
33. “Sounding La Raza Cósmica,” Veronica Salinas
34. “Why a Girl Becomes a Hardcore Chica” Grisel Y. Acosta
35. “Dropping Dimes,” Diana Díaz
36. “Good Enough,” Nancy Méndez-Booth
37. “Tracing Elaine Summer’s Dance and Performance Lineage: Performance Notes,” Jane Gabriels
38. “Belonging, Chaos, Blood, and Tissues: Assumptions about Latina Writers in Academia,” Naida Saavedra
39. “Write Like a Girl,” Claudia Rodriguez
40. Conclusion, Grisel Y. Acosta
Jessica Nydia Pabón, Phd 