Gender on the Borderlands

Download or read book Gender on the Borderlands written by Antonia Casta_eda and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2007-07-01 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Both noted and new scholars reweave the fabric of collective, family, and individual history with a legacy of agency and activism in the borderlands in these twenty-one original selections. Contributors explore themes of homeland, sexuality, language, violence, colonialism, and political resistance within the most recent frameworks of Chicana/Chicano inquiry. Art as social critique, culture as a human right, labor activism, racial plurality, Indigenous knowledge, and strategies of decolonization all vitalize these selections edited by one of the country's most respected historians of the borderlands, Antonia Castaneda.