Queering Mesoamerican Diasporas: Remembering Xicana Indigena Ancestries

by Susy J. Zepeda

Book Overview

Acts of remembering offer a path to decolonization for Indigenous peoples forcibly dislocated from their culture, knowledge, and land. Susy J. Zepeda highlights the often overlooked yet intertwined legacies of Chicana feminisms and queer decolonial theory through the work of select queer Indígena cultural producers and thinkers. By tracing the ancestries and silences of gender-nonconforming people of color, she addresses colonial forms of epistemic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252086600
• ISBN13: 9780252086601
• Release Date: August 2022
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"