Detail of “Red Umbrella” by Margaret Garcia
The Spring 12(2) issue of Chicana/Latina Studies: The Journal of MALCS explores topics of urgency, confronts the political discourse that shapes immigration policy, and offers a critical examination of the birthright movement and the rhetorics of illegality.
ARTIST’S STATEMENT
Margaret Garcia
Learning from the Ancestors: An Artist’s Journey Through Life
EDITORS’ COMMENTARY
Josie Méndez-Negrete and Eliza Rodriguez y Gibson
Demanding Dialogue and Pushing the Conversation
ESSAYS
Martha Menchaca
The Social Climate of the Birthright Movement in the United States
Brenda Sendejo
The Cultural Production of Spiritual Activism: Gender, Social Justice, and the Remaking of Religion in the Borderlands
Andrea Hernandez Holm
Recovering the Rain
CREATIVE WRITING
Ilza Cisneros
How the Sábado Gigante Dancers Changed
Virgie Tovar
Freedom, Failure, and Rebellion: The Queer Art of Being Fat, Mexican Chichona
reina alejandra prado
Atado a Ti: after Gonzalo Espinosa’s ceramic sculpture of the same name
reina alejandra prado
Dancing Fawn, or Icarus Takes a Flying Leap
Ivonne Gordon Carrera Andrade
I am Word
IN REVIEW
Alicia Contreras
New Historical and Geographic Horizons for Chicana/o Literature: Marissa K. López’s Chicano Nations and Chicana/o Literary History
Jean Rockford Aguilar-Valdez
A Life of Wounds Made Golden
