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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Briscoe Ctr for Amer History Ut-Austin
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Februar 2025
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781477330609
• ISBN-10: 1477330607
• Artikelnr.: 70538395

Autorenporträt

Jody A. Marín is a full professor of English at Texas A&M University-Kingsville, where she also serves as the interim Writing Center Director. Norma E. Cantú is the Norine R. and T. Frank Murchison Distinguished Professor in Humanities at Trinity University. She has authored or edited multiple books, including co-editing Entre Guadalupe y Malinche: Tejanas in Literature and Art.

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