1. Preface: The Slow Lowdown
2. Introduction: A Slow Approach to Fathers and Other Fictions
3. Part I. Sourcing Authority
* Film: Ancianos not Abuelos: Making Space and Mediating Male Power
* Personal Narrative: “No, I Am Your Father”
* Literature: Fathers and Racialized Masculinities in Luis Alberto
Urrea’s In Search of Snow
4. Part II. Instrumentalizing Indigeneity
* Personal Narrative: Nobody Ever Said We Were Aztecs
* Film: Fatherhood, Chicanismo, and the Cultural Politics of Healing in
La Mission
* Literature: New Tribalism and Chicana/o Indigeneity in the Work of
Gloria Anzaldúa
5. Part III. Fantasmas and Fronteras
* Literature: Fathers, Sons, and Other (Short) Fictions
* Film: Meta and Mutant Fathers
* Personal Narrative: Family Fictions and Other Lies about the Truth
6. Conclusion: Fathers and Futurity
7. Parting Shot
8. Acknowledgments
9. Notes
10. Works Cited and Consulted
11. Index
