{"product_id":"transmovimientos-9781496225894","title":"Transmovimientos","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2022 International Latino Book Award Finalist for Best LGBTQ Studies Book\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Within a trans-embodied framework, this anthology identifies \u003ci\u003etransmovimientos\u003c\/i\u003e as the creative force or social mechanism through which queer, trans, and gender nonconforming Latinx communities navigate their location and calibrate their consciousness. This anthology unveils a critical perspective with the emphasis on queer, trans, and gender nonconforming communities of immigrants and social dissidents who reflect on and write about diaspora and migratory movements while navigating geographical and embodied spaces across gendered and racialized contexts, all crucial elements of the trans-movements taking place in the United States.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e This collection forms a nuanced conversation between scholarship and social activism that speaks in concrete ways about diasporic and migratory LGBTQ communities who suffer from immoral immigration policies and political discourses that produce untenable l\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A critical and timely set of subjects, especially given the rampant and castigating racism, homophobia, transphobia, and xenophobia against the Latinx LGBTQI communities in the United States and throughout other countries at this time. The coeditors have brought together important, established, and emerging voices in an exciting manner.”—Rita E. Urquijo-Ruiz, author of \u003ci\u003eWild Tongues: Transnational Mexican Popular Culture\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Trans vida in Extraordinary Times\u003cbr\u003e Eddy Francisco Alvarez Jr., Magda García, and Ellie D. Hernández\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTwenty-First-Century Student Movements\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1. Triunfando con o sin papeles: Muxerista y jotx-historias of DACA-mentation and Activism in Las Vegas\u003cbr\u003e Joanna Núñez, Jasmine Rubalcava-Cuara, and Anita Tijerina Revilla\u003cbr\u003e 2. Somos jotería: UCLA Chicanx Latinx Student Activists Fighting for Social Justice\u003cbr\u003e José Manuel Santillana\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReading Performance and Performativity from Cuba to Los Angeles\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 3. Working Trans in Jaime Cortez’s \u003ci\u003eSexile\/Sexilio\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Carlos Ulises Decena\u003cbr\u003e 4. Wonder Woman, Pancho Villa, and the Shifting Rio Grande: Transnational jotx Identity, Desire, Pleasure, and Death on the El Paso \/ Juárez Border\u003cbr\u003e Omar González\u003cbr\u003e 5. Vaqueeros: Muy machos, Wearing the Pants, and Living la vida loca\u003cbr\u003e Carlos-Manuel\u003cbr\u003e 6. Home(bodies): Transitory Belonging at LA’s Oldest Latinx Drag Bar\u003cbr\u003e Katherine Steelman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMemory and Memoir: Between sueños y pesadillas\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 7. Pesadilla convertida en sueño: El sueño nunca soñado \/ A Nightmare Turned Into a Dream: A Dream Never Dreamed\u003cbr\u003e Bamby Salcedo\u003cbr\u003e 8. “¿Qué harás si algo me pasa?”: An ofrenda\u003cbr\u003e Nicholas Duron\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the Urban Landscape to Sites of Incarceration\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 9. Queering el barrio: Latina Immigrant Street Vendors in Los Angeles\u003cbr\u003e Lorena Muñoz\u003cbr\u003e 10. The Privatized Deportation Center Complex y la trans mujer\u003cbr\u003e Verónica Mandujano\u003cbr\u003e In Our Own Words: An Afterword\u003cbr\u003e Ellie D. Hernández, Eddy Francisco Alvarez Jr., and Magda García\u003cbr\u003e List of Contributors\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48739738485079,"sku":"9781496225894","price":69.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781496225894.jpg?v=1720053034","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/transmovimientos-9781496225894","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}