This Bridge We Call Communication (eBook)

Leandra H. Hernández is independent scholar and teaches communication courses at National University, Trident University International, and the University of Houston.Robert Gutierrez-Perez is assistant professor of culture and communication in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Nevada, Reno.

Part I: Healing the Wounds: (Re)imagining Borderlands TheoryChapter 1: “Using Testimonios to Untame Our Silent Tongues: Exploring our Experiences of Child Sexual Abuse Through an Anzaldúan Perspective,”Nivea CastañedaChapter 2: “Testimonio as a Queer Puente for Healing,” Manuel Alejandro Pérez“Make America Great Again,”Robert Gutierrez-PerezChapter 3: “Fronteras Toxicas: Toward a Borderland Ecological Consciousness,”Carlos Tarin“Dolores,”Masha Sukovic Part II: The Coyolxauhqui Imperative: Health Communication, Disability Studies, Pain, and HealingChapter 4: “Facing Tlahtlacolli (Microaggressions) with Nepantla and Conocimiento: A Xicana Epistemological Approach,”Sarah Amira de la GarzaChapter 5: “A Letter to My Hija: Anzaldúa’s Coyolxauhqui Imperative, Your Bisabuela’s Withering Body, and the Life-Affirming Possibilities of Woundedness,”Luis Manuel AndradeChapter 6: “I take something from both worlds”: An Anzaldúan Analysis of Mexican-American Women’s Conceptualizations of Ethnic Identity,”Leandra Hinojosa HernándezPart III: Theorizing Nepantla: Creative Ethnographies on the Path of ConocimientoChapter 7: “Communicating Nepantla: An Anzaldúan Theory of Identity,”Sarah De Los Santos UptonChapter 8: “Between Worlds: A Personal Journey of Self-reflection While on the Path of Conocimiento,”Edmundo M. AguilarChapter 9: “Remembering Gloria Anzaldúa Globally Through A Documentary Altar: ALTAR Cruzando Fronteras, Building Bridges,”Diana I. BowenPart IV: Critical/Cultural Rhetorics of Ambiguity and HybridityChapter 10: “Sweetening the Pot: Culinary Adventures in Hybridity,”Stephanie L. Gomez“La Dueña de la Casa,”Masha SukovicChapter 11: “A Tolerance for Ambiguity or the American Dream: Using Anzaldúa to Disrupt and Reclaim Latina Lives from Multicultural Feminism,”Sara Baugh-Harris and Bernadette Marie CalafellPart V: Women of Color and Radical Coalition Building“Whispers in the Dark: A Collection of Poems,”Shantel MartinezChapter 12: “Black Women and Girls Trending: A New(er) Autohistoria-Teoría,”Tara L. Conley Chapter 13: “Rasquache Cyborgs and Borderlands Aesthetics in Alex Rivera’s Sleep Dealer,”Alexandrina AgloroChapter 14: “Gloria Anzaldúa, Audre Lorde, & Topographies of Anger,”Rachel Alicia Griffin Part VI: Anzaldúan Approaches to Critical (Communication) Pedagogy“I Get It from My Mother,”Robert Gutierrez-PerezChapter 15: “Building Community, Decolonizing Spirituality, and Women of Color Feminism: Applying Gloria Anzaldúa in and out of the Classroom for Healing and Empowerment,”Xamuel BañalesChapter 16: “Carrying Gloria on My Back: A Pedagogic and Research Journal,”Luis Gabriel Sanchez RoseChapter 17: “A Crack to Speak Out From: Performing Coalitional Politics Through Dialogue, Listening, and Reflexivity,”Robert Gutierrez-Perez and Bedilia Ramirez Chapter 18: “Becoming a Bridge in/through Critical Communication Scholarship:Meditations on the Affective Afterlife of Cultural Normativities,”Gust A. Yep