Autobiography without Apology: The Personal Essay in Chicanx and Latinx Studies

by Chon A. Noriega (Editor), Wendy Laura Belcher (Editor), Charlene Villase or Black (Editor)

Overview

Silver Medal Recipient, Education II (Commentary/Education), 2022 Independent Publisher Book Awards

This collection of essays, drawn from Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies, focuses on the personal experiences of Chicanx and Latinx scholars, writers, and artists. Each essay is a reflection on the process of self-naming—the role of “I”—in the authors’ work and research. Autobiography without Apology expands the earlier CSRC Press publication I Am Aztlán with the inclusion of ten essays that bring the collection up to date. The new title acknowledges Aztlán’s growing scope as it embraces Latinx, LGBT, and Indigenous studies as well as Chicanx studies.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780895511737
Publisher:	UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Press
Publication date:	05/01/2020
Pages:	400
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.90(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Chon A. Noriega is professor of film, television, and media studies at UCLA and director of the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center. He has published books on Latino media, performance, and visual art and has developed many art projects, including Home—So Diferent, So Appealing. Wendy Laura Belcher is associate professor of African literature at Princeton University with a joint appointment in the Department of Comparative Literature and the Center for African American Studies. She is author of The Black Queen of Sheba and Ladder of Heaven. Charlene Villaseñor Black is professor of art history and Chicanx studies at UCLA and associate director of the Chicano Studies Research Center. She is author of Creating the Cult of St. Joseph.

Table of Contents

Autobiography without Apology Chon A. Noriega Wendy Laura Belcher Charlene Villaseñor Black vii

Exile and Going Home

Subterranean Homesick Blues Max Benavidez 1

Phantoms in Urban Exile Harry Gamboa Jr. 11

The Maguey: Coming Home Santa C. Barraza 19

Chickens on the Bus Alejandro Anreus 23

Home/Work

Research Note Chon A. Noriega 29

Beyond the Cinema of the Other, or Toward Another Cinema Frances Negrón-Muntaner 41

Afrofuturism/Chicanafuturism: Fictive Kin Catherine S. Ramírez 47

Entre Familia

A Poetics of Remembrance: Testimonial Memory as Resistance and Repression Vincent Pérez 59

The Measure of a Cock: Mexican Cockfighting, Culture, and Masculinity Jerry Garcia 129

Remembrance of Raymond Moreno, Founding Member of the Group Workshop Renee M. Moreno 159

La Memoria de Nuetras Tierra: Colorado Judith F. Baca 177

Testifying

Activist Latina Lesbian Publishing: esto no tiene nombre and commoción Tatiana De La Tierra 185

Silencing Our Lady: La Respuesta de Alma Alma López 221

Breaking Down Glass Walls Ruben Ochoa 237

Jotería Identity and Consciousness Anita Tijerina Revilla José Manuel Santillana 241

Memory of Struggle in Ciudad Juárez: Mothers' Resistance and Transborder Activism in the Case of the Camp Algodonero Cynthia Bejarano 255

Brown and Down Theater in the Time of Pending Erasure Ricardo Gamboa 271

Field Reports

Turning Sunshine into Noir and Fantasy into Reality: Los Angeles in the Classroom Alvina E. Quintana 289

Ethnicity, Fieldwork, and the Cultural Capital That Gets Us There: Reflections from US Hispanic Marketing Arlene Dávila 299

We Morph War into Magic: The Story of the Border Fence Mural, a Community Art Project in Calexico-Mexicali Ana Clarissa Rojas Durazo 317

The Chicanx Poster Workshop: A Space Where Subjectivity Is Produced Carlos Francisco Jackson 341

Place and Perspective in the Shadow of the Wall: Recovering Ndé Knowledge and Self-Determination in Texas Margo Tamez 357

Bibliography of Chicana/o Autobiography and Personal Essays in Spanish and English 385

Contributors 405

Index 415