Frontera Madre(hood) : Brown Mothers Challenging Oppression and Transborder Violence at the U. S. -Mexico Border / edited by Cynthia Bejarano and Maria Cristina Morales.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bejarano, Cynthia L., 1973- editor.

Morales, María Cristina, editor.

Series:

The Feminist Wire Bks.

Feminist Wire Bks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Violence.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (368 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Tucson, Arizona : The University of Arizona Press, [2024]

Summary:

"Reflecting on the concept as both a methodological and theoretical framework, this collection embodies the challenges and resiliency of mothering along both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border. More than thirty contributors examine how mothering is shaped by the geopolitics of border zones, which also transcends biological, sociological, or cultural and gendered tropes regarding ideas of motherhood, who can mother, and what mothering personifies"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Series Information

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Foreword / Michelle Téllez

Acknowledgments

Introduction / Cynthia Bejarano and Maria Cristina Morales

PART I. SURVIVAL IN THE FACE OF VIOLENCE

A Letter Acknowledging Antigone Mothers, Our Desert Mothers / Lucha Castro

Testimonio: A Motherist Activist Story of Migration, Community Building, and Femicide / Paula Flores Bonilla

1. Ellos Matan?: Visual Autoethnography of Motherhood in the Face of the Militarization at the Border / Ma. Eugenia Hernández Sánchez

2. Frontera Madre(hood) and Survival Tactics of Urban Life / Marisol Rodríguez Sosa

Testimonio: La Frontera: Experiencing Border Violence Through Different Lenses / Edith Treviño Espinosa

3. "Yo no Tengo Derecho a Enfermarme": Conceptions of Madre(hood) in Women Maquiladora Workers / Cirila Quintero Ramírez

Testimonio: "Mi Nieto Tenía Metas. . . . Nos Tenemos Que Reunir Todos": A Grandmother's Fight for Justice Through the Border Patrol Victims Network / Taide Elena

PART II. CONFRONTING CAGING, MIGRATION, AND DEPORTATION

Testimonio: Women, Family, Border Enforcement, and Humanitarian Work on the Banks of the Rio Grande in Matamoros / Bertha A. Bermúdez Tapia

Testimonio: The Sidewalk School / Felicia Rangel-Samponaro

4. A Different Kind of Motherhood for Liberation: Fictive Kin, Advocacy, and Mothering Adult Migrants in Immigration Detention / Margaret Brown Vega

5. Madres De Una Frontera: A Bilateral Experience / Coda Rayo-Garza and Shamma Rayo-Gutierrez

Testimonio: Mothering in a Bicultural Border Context / Sandra Gutiérrez

6. Knitting Hope: Conversations with Migrant Women in Tijuana Shelters / Macrina Cárdenas Montaño and Olga Odgers-Ortiz.

Testimonio: My Motherhood Testimonio in the Service and Defense of Children and Youth at the Border / Leticia López Manzano

Testimonio: Colores United: Mothers Offering Sanctuary and Dignity in Southern New Mexico / Ariana Saludares

PART III. ASSERTING RIGHTS AND CALLING OUT HEGEMONY AND OPPRESSION THROUGH A PRAXIS OF FRONTERA MADRE(HOOD)

Testimonio: I AM His Mother: Challenging Traditional Paradigms of Latina Mothering in the Paso del Norte Region / Claudia Yolanda Casillas

7. On Fronteriza Madre(hood)s: Una Plática Entre Mujeres Académicas / Judith Flores Carmona and Brenda Rubio

8. Ma'ala Meecha, Watch Over Me: A Hiaki Interpretation of Frontera Mother+hood / Marisa Elena Duarte

9. Indigenous Women and Motherhood Within a Border Context: The Case of the Nan davi in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua / Mariela Vásquez Tobon

10. Border Walls and Barriers to Care: Latina Mothers and Access to Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic / Marisa S. Torres, Victoria M. Telles, and Elva M. Arredondo

11. "Ya Vámonos Que Va a Ver Mucha Fila en el Puente": A Mother-Daughter's Reflection on Crossing Borders Using a Transfronteriza Intersectional Consciousness / Sylvia Fernández Quintanilla and Silvia Quintanilla Moreno

Testimonio: Changing the Narrative on How Our Mexican Immigrant Communities Should Be Served Along the Border / Hilda Villegas

Afterword: Frontera Madre(hood) and the Path of Conocimiento / Irene Lara

Contributors

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9780816546695

081654669X