meXicana Roots and Routes
Subtitle
Listening to People, Places, and Pasts
Edited by Vanessa Fonseca-Chávez and Anita Huizar-Hernández
In this collection, established and emerging scholars draw upon their rootedness in the U.S. Southwest and U.S.-Mexico borderlands. The meXicana contributors use personal and scholarly inquiry to discuss what it means to cultivate spaces of belonging, navigate language policies, and explore and excavate silences in various spaces, among other important themes.
Bios
Vanessa Fonseca-Chávez is an Associate Professor of English and Assistant Vice Provost of the ASU Polytechnic campus.
Anita Huizar-Hernández is an Associate Professor of Spanish and Associate Director of the Hispanic Research Center.
Praise for this book
meXicana Roots and Routes is a robust interdisciplinary collection of work that amplifies how Chicanx communities in the U.S. Southwest are deeply rooted in the political, social, cultural, and educational spaces of the region.
Monica De La Torre Associate Professor, Arizona State University
The authors in this volume use their ears—via ethnography, oral history, translation studies, and sound studies—to follow the roots and routes of social movements, community building, and political ideals in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. Follow their lead to understand meXicanidad. Listen.
Flannery Burke Associate Professor, St. Louis University
