MACMILLAN The Un/Making of Latina/o Citizenship: Culture, Politics, and Aesthetics (Literatures of the Americas)

Examining a wide range of source material including popular culture, literature, photography, television, and visual art, this collection of essays sheds light on the misrepresentations of Latina/os in the mass media. Review "In their very readable collection The Un/Making of Latina/o Citizenship: Culture, Politics and Aesthetics, Hernandez and Rodriguez y Gibson have compiled a list of scholars who are innovative thinkers, insightful academicians, and passionate writers unafraid to examine, to rethink the shifting and fluidity of what is meant, or not, by Latinidad. They discuss our complicated cultural currency from past to potential, traveling from the academic theory to everyday politics, from literature to media, holding together complete oppositions while reexamining their useful convergences. As an artist, I feel I can finally read theoretical frameworks that make sense to me, that excite me, that discomfort me, that reclaim a language ripe with metaphor and realm of cultural power. This collection should be on the bookshelf of every scholar and artist whose has been given the task - whether in art as in theory - to decolonize the imaginary, one word at a time." - Helena María Viramontes, Professor of English, Cornell University, USA About the Author Alicia Gaspar de Alba, University of California, Los Angeles, USA Peter J. García, California State University, Northridge, USA Chela Sandoval, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA Juan D. Mah y Busch, Loyola Marymount University, USA Kristie Soares, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA Araceli Esparza, California State University, Long Beach, USA Cathryn Josefina Merla-Watson, University of Texas , San Antonio, USA Ella Maria Diaz, Cornell University, USA William A. Calvo, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA Irene Mata, Wellesley College, USA