Voices of Resistance

Laura Alamillo, received her PhD from the University of California at Berkeley in Language, Literacy and Culture. She is currently a Professor in Literacy, Early Childhood, Bilingual and Special Education Department at Fresno State. Her research includes looking at the education of emergent bilingual children specifically at humanizing and culturally sustaining teaching practices in multlingual classrooms. Larissa M. Mercado-López received her PhD in Latina Literature from the University of Texas at San Antonio and is currently an associate professor of Women’s Studies at California State University, Fresno, and children’s book writer.. Her research focuses on Chicana feminisms, Tejana literature, and intersectional feminist fitness studies. Cristina Herrera holds a PhD in Literature from Claremont Graduate University and is associate professor and chair of Chicano and Latin American Studies at California State University, Fresno. She has published on Chicana literature, motherhood, and young adult literature, among other topics.

Foreword- U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera
Introduction
Section One: Tracing Chican@ Identity and Consciousness
Chapter 1- Entre Tejana y Chicana: Tracing Proto-Chicana Identity and Consciousness in Tejana Young Adult Fiction and Poetry
Larissa M. Mercado-Lopez
Chapter 2- Imagineering a Mexican American Girl: Josefina Montoya (1824)
Patricia Trujillo
Chapter 3- A Bone to Pick: Día de los Muertos in Children’s Literature
Roxana Loza and Tanya González
Chapter 4- Águila: Personal Reflections on Reading Chicanx Picturebooks from the Inside Out
Lettycia Terrones

Section Two: Negotiating Gender and Sexuality
Chapter 5- A Portrait of the Artist as a Muchachito: Sense, Sensibility, and the Poetic Transcendence of Masculinity in Juan Felipe Herrera's Downtown Boy
Phillip Serrato
Chapter 6- Not So Sweet Quince: Teenage Angst and Mother-Daughter Strife in Belinda Acosta’s Young Adult Novel, Damas, Dramas, and Ana Ruiz
Cristina Herrera
Chapter 7- You wanna be a chump/or a champ?: Constructions of Masculinity, Absent Fathers, and Conocimiento in Juan Felipe Herrera’s Downtown Boy
Sonia Alejandra Rodriguez
Chapter 8- Phantasmagoric Eroticisms: Imagining Queertopias in Chicana/o Children's Literature
Cecilia Aragon

Section Three: Transformative Pedagogies: Reflections from Inside and Outside the Classroom
Chapter 9- Chillante Pedagogy, ‘She Worlds,’ and Testimonio as Text/Image: Toward a Chicana Feminist Pedagogy in the works of Maya Christina Gonzalez
Elena Aviles
Chapter 10- Was it All a Dream? Chicana/o Children and Mestiza Consciousness in Super Cilantro Girl (2003) and Tata’s Gift (2014)
Katherine Elizabeth Bundy
Chapter 11- Translanguaging con mi abuela: Chican@ Children’s Literature as a Means to Elevate Language Practices in Our Homes
Laura Alamillo
Chapter 12- Identity Texts in Linguistically and Culturally Sustaining Classrooms: Chican@ Children’s Literature, Student Voice and Belonging
Lilian Cibils, Virginia Gallegos, Enrique Avalos, and Fabian Martinez