Nepantla Squared - Transgender Mestiz@ Histories in Times of Global Shift

Nepantla Squared maps the lives of two transgender mestiz@s to chart the ways race, gender, sex, ethnicity, and capital function differently in different times. Linda Heidenreich coins the term nepantla² to mark figures who moved between cultures and genders.
 

List of contents

List of Illustrations    
Acknowledgments    
Introduction: History as Nepantla2    
Chapter One. A World Created through Motion    
Chapter Two. Motion-Change in the Life and Times of Jack Mugarrieta Garland    
Chapter Three. NAFTA and Generative Movement in the Sixth Sun    
Chapter Four. Motion-Change in the Life and Times of Gwen Amber Rose Araujo    
Chapter Five. Nepantler@s of the Sixth Sun    
Conclusion: Into the Sixth Sun    
Notes    
Bibliography    
Index    

About the author

Linda Heidenreich is an associate professor of history and of women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at Washington State University. They are the author of “This Land Was Mexican Once”: Histories of Resistance from Northern California and coeditor of Three Decades of Engendering History: Selected Works of Antonia I. Castañeda.
 

Summary

Nepantla Squared maps the lives of two transgender mestiz@s to chart the ways race, gender, sex, ethnicity, and capital function differently in different times. Linda Heidenreich coins the term nepantla² to mark figures who moved between cultures and genders.

Product details

• Authors: Linda Heidenreich
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2020
• EAN: 9781496221964
• ISBN: 978-1-4962-2196-4
• No. of pages: 228
• Series: Expanding Frontiers: Interdisc; Expanding Frontiers: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories