Somos Tejanas! : Chicana Identity and Culture in Texas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Marín, Jody A.

Contributor:

Cantú, Norma E.

Series:

Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long series in Latin American and Latino art and culture.

Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long series in Latin American and Latino art and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mexican American women--Texas--Social conditions--History.

Mexican American women.

Mexican American women--Texas--Biography.

Mexican American women--Texas--Social life and customs.

Mexican American women--Material culture--Texas.

Mexican American art--Political aspects--Texas.

Mexican American art.

Mexican American art--Texas--History and criticism.

Mexican American women--Texas--Music--History and criticism.

Mexican American women--Texas--Ethnic identity--Poetry.

Mexican American women--Texas--Ethnic identity--Fiction.

Mexican American women--Texas--Ethnic identity.

Genre:

Nouvelles.

Poesie.

Short stories.

Poetry.

Essays.

short stories.

poetry.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (426 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Austin : University of Texas Press, 2025.

Summary:

"This anthology, much like Norma Cantu's previous edited volume with us, Entre Guadalupe y Malinche: Tejanas in Literature and Art, brings together an impressive collection of poets, writers, scholars, and artists. But whereas Entre was an anthology of primary source material such as art, poetry and literature collected from the past century, "Somos Tejanas!" brings together poets, writers, artists, and academics to share contributions that rethink what Tejana identity and Tejanidad is, and could be, as a scholarly field of study (which they name Tejane studies) and as a way of being for readers both in the classroom and the general public. There is a mixture of critical essays on culture (including music, dance, and art) alongside poetry and short stories, offering nuanced texts rooted in Tejana culture. Part I includes poetry and personal narratives that explore the heterogeneity of Tejana identity. Part II focuses on cultural production and investigates the hidden transcripts of activism via cultural expression. Through the lens of these movidas, or sociopolitical movements, they are able to take a fresh look at how music, dance, material culture, and storytelling, identify them as Tejana. Part III considers the theme of resilience as a key aspect of Tejanidad in the past and present. Essays contemplate the history and memory of segregation in Texas and challenges to education in the past and present. Other essays take a historical look back at women's athletic participation in La Liga Hispano Americana Femenina and consider the struggles of surviving the historic winter storms and blackouts of 2021 during the COVID pandemic. Migration in and out of Texas is explored both in terms of the possibility of greater opportunities for Tejana women, but also in terms of displacement as de-territorialized existences. For instance, in the personal essay "Crossing the Border to Better Times" María Luisa Ornelas-June's reminisces about the fluidity of border crossing that outlined her teenage years in Laredo that is no longer possible due to drug cartel violence in Mexico and the ever-tightening border restrictions in the U.S. The final section on artwork explores visual representations of Tejana embodiment in all of its unique forms"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Half-title

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Introduction: Documenting Tejanas: Tejana Cultural Identity within the Tejanx Ethos

Part I. ¿Quiénes somos? Searching for and Finding Who We Are

Madre Land: An Abridged Guide for Blooming in the Borderlands by Seven Generations of Tejana Mothers &amp

Mijas

Becoming Tejana: A Familial and Academic Genealogy of My Tejanidad

From Luby's to Graceland

Fear, Voice, and Gritos: The Complexity of Embracing My Identity as a Tejana

Un puente

Rite of Passage

Tejanas unidas en identidad, sacrificio, y celebración: (Tejanas United in Identity, Sacrifice, and Celebration)

Embracing Our Tejanidad: Becoming Comadres Chingonas during COVID-19

You Bring Out the Tejana in Me

Somos Tejanas

Part II. Music, Dancing, and Cultural Movidas

Tejano Music: Two Cultures, Two Genders

Tejanidad y Conjunto: Remembrance, Performance, and Expression of Tejanidad through Conjunto Music

Dynamics of Movement: Tejana Representation and Inclusion in the Dance Community

"(No) soy Tejana": An Interview with Cynthia Pérez, with an Essay on Tejana Storytelling

Lotería as an Expression of Tejanidad

The Sandía

Miel de mesquite

Part III. Resilience

Notas on Teaching Tejana Studies in the Twenty-First-Century Classroom

Unsilencing the Past and Re-membering: The Spirit Work of Movement-Era Tejanas

Tejanas Remembering Segregation: Intersections of Gender, Race, and Memory

Los círculos sociales: Tejanas in Higher Education 1925-1940s

A Legacy of Tejana Athleticism: Community, Civil Rights, and Belonging since 1930

Midwest Tejanas: Navigating entre Mundos Juntas

Radical Self-Love: A Theory of Being

Snovid, The Storm Within the Storm

Blackout: White Walkers in Winterfell, c. 2021

Spanglish Sonnet

Part IV. (Im)migration.

Vernix Caseosa

Tejas Is My Aztlán: On Migrating from South to North and Affirming My Tejanidad

Crossing the Border to Better Times

Changing Cultural Rhythms

Los Alacranes: Una Familia's Migration Story

Zapatos

Desert Women

Part V. Artwork

Urban Ecology (Reconquista)

Emma Tenayuca

Texans vs. Tejanos

Chicano Kitchen

Culebra Azul

Healing Borderland Hand

Soy Tejana

Siempre Selena

Frances con el Arbol de la Vida

Acknowledgments

Contributors

Index

Color Section.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781477330623

1477330623

9781477330630

1477330631

OCLC:

1485515518