Detail from “Spirit of the Dresses” by Carrie Reede Curly (Apache)
The essays in this issue expand our understanding of nation and citizenship by articulating complex views of mestizaje in the past and in the future, and both in México and the United States. Mestiza bodies are not limited to the Spanish/Indian mixture; rather, mestizaje is expanded to include Japanese Mexican identities and Cyborg bodies.
ARTIST’S STATEMENT
Carrie Reede Curley, Apache
Inspirations
EDITORS’ COMMENTARY
Gloria H. Cuádraz and C. Alejandra Elenes
Thriving in el Desierto de Arizona: Embracing Activism in the Pursuit of Justice
Eliza Rodriguez y Gibson
Our Bodies of Work
ESSAYS
Cordelia E. Barrera
Cyborg Bodies, Strategies of Consciousness, and Ecological Revolution in the México-US Borderlands
Selfa Chew
Mexicanidades de la Diáspora Asiática: Considerations of Gender, Race, and Class in the Treatment of Japanese Mexicans During WWII
POETRY
Pat Viera
Seven
Pat Viera
Vanilla is an Orchid
Pat Viera
The Good Storm
Alicia Vogl Saénz
The Passing
Alicia Vogl Saénz
Meditation on Movement Through an ALS Telescope
Alicia Vogl Saénz
Quinine
Gloria Enedina Alvarez
Mujer de Gran Enagua
Gloria Enedina Alvarez
Luz de Luz
Gloria Enedina Alvarez
Machetona
IN REVIEW
Marivel T. Danielson
Wild Tongues: Transnational Mexican Popular Culture
Tiffany Farias-Sokoloski
Reaching Out to Latino Families of English Language Learners
Lorena V. Márquez
Celebrating Debutantes and Quinceañeras: Coming of Age in American Ethnic Communities
