Somos Tejanas!

Chicana Identity and Culture in Texas
Herausgeber: Marín, Jody A; Cantú, Norma E

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An expansive volume on Tejana identity and Tejanidad told through personal narratives, poetry, and essays.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Texas Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Februar 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 880g
• ISBN-13: 9781477330609
• ISBN-10: 1477330607
• Artikelnr.: 70538395

Autorenporträt

Edited by Jody A. Marín and Norma E. Cantú

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction. Documenting Tejanas: Tejana Cultural Identity within the
Tejanx Ethos (Jody A. Marín and Norma E. Cantú)
2. Part I. ¿Quiénes somos? Searching for and Finding Who We Are
* Madre Land: An Abridged Guide for Blooming in the Borderlands by
Seven Generations of Tejana Mothers & Mijas (Bonnie Ilza Cisneros)
* Becoming Tejana: A Familial and Academic Genealogy of My Tejanidad
(Margaret E. Cantú-Sánchez)
* From Luby's to Graceland (Elizabeth N. Flores)
* Fear, Voice, and Gritos: The Complexity of Embracing My Identity as a
Tejana (Sonya Barrera Eddy)
* Un puente (Crystal Silva-McCormick)
* Rite of Passage (Elizabeth N. Flores)
* Tejanas unidas en identidad, sacrificio, y celebración (Tejanas
United in Identity, Sacrifice, and Celebration) (Kiri Avelar and
Elisa De La Rosa)
* Embracing Our Tejanidad: Becoming Comadres Chingonas during COVID-19
(Mayra Olivares-Urueta and Ana Martínez)
* You Bring Out the Tejana in Me (Norma E. Cantú)
* Somos Tejanas (Celeste Guzmán Mendoza)
3. Part II. Music, Dancing, and Cultural Movidas
* Tejano Music: Two Cultures, Two Genders (Miriam Romero)
* Tejanidad y Conjunto: Remembrance, Performance, and Expression of
Tejanidad through Conjunto Music (Jody A. Marín)
* Dynamics of Movement: Tejana Representation and Inclusion in the
Dance Community (Sophia Salgado)
* "(No) soy Tejana": An Interview with Cynthia Pérez, with an Essay on
Tejana Storytelling (Romana Radlwimmer)
* Lotería as an Expression of Tejanidad (Gabriela C. Zapata)
* The Sandía (Patricia Zamora)
* Miel de mesquite (Norma E. Cantú)
4. Part III. Resilience
* Notas on Teaching Tejana Studies in the Twenty-First-Century
Classroom (Lilia Raquel Rosas)
* Unsilencing the Past and Re-membering: The Spirit Work of
Movement-Era Tejanas (Brenda Sendejo)
* Tejanas Remembering Segregation: Intersections of Gender, Race, and
Memory (Jennifer R. Nájera)
* Los círculos sociales: Tejanas in Higher Education 1925–1940s
(Alberto Rodriguez and Jeffrey Glick)
* A Legacy of Tejana Athleticism: Community, Civil Rights, and
Belonging since 1930 (Paulina A. Serrano)
* Midwest Tejanas: Navigating entre Mundos Juntas (Amanda Flores,
Dianey Leal, Angélica Ruvalcaba, and Erika Vallejo)
* Radical Self-Love: A Theory of Being (Venetia June Pedraza)
* SNOVID, the Storm within the Storm (Domino Renee Perez)
* Blackout: White Walkers in Winterfell, c. 2021 (Liliana Valenzuela)
* Spanglish Sonnet (Dr. Lichita)
5. Part IV: (Im)migration
* Vernix Caseosa (Dr. Lichita)
* Tejas Is My Aztlán: On Migrating from South to North and Affirming My
Tejanidad (Brenci Patiño)
* Crossing the Border to Better Times (María-Luisa Ornelas-June)
* Changing Cultural Rhythms (Mary Helen Pérez)
* Los Alacranes: Una Familia's Migration Story (Susana Nevarez-Marquez)
* Zapatos (Adriana Domínguez)
* Desert Women (Alma M. García)
6. Part V. Artwork
* Urban Ecology (Reconquista) (Ashley Mireles)
* Emma Tenayuca (Ashley Mireles)
* Texans vs. Tejanos (Wendi Valladares)
* Chicano Kitchen (Wendi Valladares)
* Culebra Azul (Celeste De Luna)
* Healing Borderland Hand (Celeste De Luna)
* Soy Tejana (Mayra Zamora)
* Siempre Selena (Mayra Zamora)
* Frances con el Arbol de la Vida (Santa Barraza)
7. Acknowledgments
8. Contributors
9. Index