Detail from “Trees, 2005” by Anna-Marie Lopez
The contributions gathered in this issue reflect the theme of the 2009 MALCS Summer Institute, “Border as Mirror: Negotiating the View from Here.” The contributors’ pieces for this issue together explore varied storehouses of knowledge, from lived experience to crafted research. Individually and collectively we embody knowledge and are living archives that emanate and create bodies of knowledge. As so many of the pieces in this issue illustrate, there is incredible intellectual worth, personal power, and benefit in putting a magnifying glass to our wounds.
ARTIST’S STATEMENT
Anna-Marie Lopez
Breathing life into Pain: Healing Through Art
EDITORS’ COMMENTARY
Karen Mary Davalos
Journal Report, 2003-2009
Tiffany Ana López
Benchmarks, Personal and Collective
Josie Méndez-Negrete
Dreaming and Scaffolding
Tiffany Ana López and Josie Méndez-Negrete
Overview: MALCS Summer Institute
ESSAYS
Jennifer Nájera
Auto/Ethnography And Reverse Migrations in South Texas: An Anthropologist’s Testimonio About Method and Meaning in the Gathering of History
Antonia Castañeda
Comino Chonicles: A Tale of Tejana Migration
Andrea Robledo and Mariela Nuñez-Janes
Testimoniando: A Latina/ Chicana Critical Feminist Approach to Racism in College
Emma García
Seriously Funny: A Critique of Hollywood’s Post Colonial Gaze in the work of Michele Serros
POETRY
Judith Flores Carmona
Today Tuesday
Judith Flores Carmona
Complicated Answer
TESTIMONIOS
Veronica Pérez
Dolor Hereditario
Lee Ann Epstein
Roller Derby: Transporting into Academia Lessons from the Body Slam
Anónima
The Wake-Up Call
Contributors’ Bios
