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More than a memoir of personal and political achievements, this
volume chronicles a family's development from Mexican immigrants to
American leaders. Written in an authentic and unique voice, this
book describes how the author's Mexican parents instilled a love of
learning, a desire to excel, and a commitment to community in their
children. Relating how her heritage and upbringing allowed her to
lead her community and promote social justice, the author conveys a
courageous story of hope, love, faith, and a fighting spirit long
committed to social and environmental justice, regardless of the
personal cost.
Gender on the Borderlands captures the intense, complex, and
gendered experience of those living along the barbwire borderlands
of Mexico and the United States. Through scholarship, testimonials,
oral histories, songs, poetry, and art, the contributors reclaim
the borderlands from the distortions and violence of official
history and continue the recovery of a gendered Chicana/Chicano
history begun by Gloria Anzaldua in Borderlands/La Frontera more
than twenty years ago. Both noted and new scholars reweave the
fabric of collective, family, and individual history with a legacy
of agency and activism in the borderlands in these twenty-one
original selections. Contributors explore themes of homeland,
sexuality, language, violence, colonialism, and political
resistance within the most recent frameworks of Chicana/Chicano
inquiry. Art as social critique, culture as a human right, labor
activism, racial plurality, Indigenous knowledge, and strategies of
decolonization all vitalize these selections edited by one of the
country's most respected historians of the borderlands, Antonia
Castaneda.From Aztec cosmology to globalization, Gender on the
Borderlands unites the past with the present and the future to
reclaim and transform the gendered, transnational domain along the
Mexico-U.S. border. Antonia Castaneda, born in Texas and raised in
the state of Washington, is an associate professor of history at
Saint Mary's University in San Antonio, Texas. Susan H. Armitage is
a professor of history at Washington State University and is the
former faculty editor of Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies.
Patricia Hart teaches in the School of Journalism and Mass Media
and is the coordinator of the American studies program at the
University of Idaho. She is the former managing editor of
Frontiers. Karen Weathermon, former assistant editor of Frontiers,
directs Washington State University's Writing Across the Curriculum
program and serves as the book review editor of Issues in Writing.
Contributors include Katherine Benton-Cohen, Maria Antonietta
Berriozabal, Yolanda Broyles-Gonzalez, Gabriel S. Estrada,
Priscilla Falcon, Deena J. Gonzalez, Gabriela Gonzalez, Virginia
Grise, Evelyn Hu-DeHart, Judith L.Huacja, Amy Kastely, Yolanda
Chavez Leyva, Clara Lomas, Maria de la Luz Ibarra, Emma Perez,
Anita Tijerina Revilla, Graciela I. Sanchez, Carmen Tafolla,
Deborah R. Vargas, and Theresa A. Ybanez.
Santa Barraza paints bold representations of Nepantla, the Land
Between. Her work depicts the historical, emotional, and spiritual
land between Mexico and Texas, between the familiar and the sacred,
between present reality and the mythic world of the ancient Aztecs
and Mayas. More than thirty of her most powerful and characteristic
works are offered in full color and considered in this
ground-breaking study of a nationally important Tejana artist. Over
the last twenty-five years of her career as a visual artist,
Barraza has explored what it is to be a Chicana and a mestiza in
this country. Utilizing a variety of media, she has embarked on an
artistic journey full of family portraits, watercolor dream scenes,
mixed media artist books, and murals that harken back to a
pre-Columbian past. By tapping into pre-conquest symbols, personal
memories, and traditional sacred art forms such as the retablo and
the Codices, she incorporates the value of Mexican artistic
traditions and their power to nurture and sustain cultural identity
on this side of the border. Barraza's art, which includes public
art in the form of murals and children's workshops, has
increasingly drawn on the colors and forms of Mesoamerica. Most
recently, the Aztec Codices offer her a symbolic form to claim her
roots and to invoke much of the cosmology of her ancestors. Within
the form, however, she adapts by drawing on contemporary figures
such as her own mother, or labor leader Ema Tenayucca, or Barraza's
sister with a physical heart (representing a heart transplant she
had received) in place of the Virgen de Guadalupe and the
Immaculate Heart. Scholars Maria Herrera-Sobek, Antonia Castaneda,
Shifra M. Goldman, Tomas Ybarra-Frausto, and Dori Grace Udeagbor
Lemeh contribute distinctive insights to the analysis of the forces
that have shaped Barraza as a Chicana artist and the images and
aesthetics that characterize the corpus of her work. Their
perspectives also contribute to an understanding of the Chicano/a
artists (including Barraza) who began their rise to prominence
during the Chicano Movement of the 1960s and 1970s. Moreover, the
text invites readers to view the Chicano/a as the "New American
artist," suggesting that the elements of Barraza's painting are
important not only to Chicanos/as, but to all Americans in our
increasingly bicultural and even mestizo society.
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