Books:
Unspeakable Violence: Remapping U.S. and Mexican National Imaginaries (Duke University Press, Latin America Otherwise Series. September 2011)
Book Chapters
“Reading Violence, Making Chicana Subjectivities” In Techno/futuros: Genealogies, Power, Desire Edited by Nancy Raquel Mirabal and Agustin Lao-Montes Lexington: 2007
Refereed Journal Articles:
“Dora the Explorer, Marketing “Latinidades” and the Politics of Global Citizenship” Latino Studies Journal Volume 5, Issue 3, Summer 2007. PDF
Book Reviews and Encyclopedia Entries:
Hispanic American Literature Encyclopedia Facts on File Edited By Luz Elena Ramirez Entries for Denise Chavez, Montserrat Fontes, Last of The Menu Girls, Face of An Angel, Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton, and Sandra Maria Estevez 9/2008
Book Review:
“Pessimistic Activism: On Latino Studies and Psychoanalysis” Theory & Event, Volume 12, Issue 2, 2009. PDF
"In Arizona, Both Racial Exploitation and Resistance Run Deep." Blog, Ms. Magazine.com May 17, 2010. Click
“Where are we going Arizona?” Blog, Ms. Magazine, Summer 2010. Click
“More Violence Against the Women of Juarez” Blog, Ms. Magazine.com, July 26, 2010. Click
"For Latinas, a Fine Line Between Reproductive Justice and Eugenics." Blog, Ms. Magazine.com August 13, 2010. Click
"Why does a 30- something Feminist Care about Dora the Explorer?" Blog, Ms. Magazine.com August 17, 2010. Click
“In Case Being Abused in Mississippi Isn’t Bad Enough.” Blog, Ms. Magazine.com March 15, 2011. Click
Upcoming Books:
¡Santa Lucia! Contemporary Chicana and Latina Cultural Reinterpretations of
Saint Iconographies
Santa Lucia! Contemporary Chicana and Latina Cultural Reinterpretations of Saint Iconographies examines a number of recent texts that narrate subjectivity through kitschy and queered representations of Catholic saints in literary, self-help, visual and performative forms. These alternative saint iconographies provide a site for theorizing subjectivity as they reinterpret the deeply disturbing and often violent hagiographies of Catholic saints as queered or kitsch cultural allegories.
Red Devils and Railroads: Race, Gender and Capitalism in the Transnational
Nineteenth Century Mexico Borderlands
Red Devils and Railroads: Race, Gender and Capitalism in the Nineteenth Century Greater Mexico Borderlands tracks the development of the railroad and gendered relations at both the southern Mexico borderlands between Guatemala, Belize and Chiapas and the U.S./Mexico border to the north. Based on the archival sources collected while on the Fulbright in Mexico City, it is my contention that racialized masculinity, femininity, representations and performances of gender were some of the most contentious sites where power was enacted, negotiated, and redistributed. What is more, these sites were characterized by the unequal time/space continuum ushered in by the coming of the railroad.