This Bridge We Call Communication

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 Theory



Chapter 1: “Using Testimonios to Untame Our Silent Tongues: Exploring our Experiences of Child Sexual Abuse Through an Anzaldúan Perspective,”



Nivea Castañeda



Chapter 2: “Testimonio as a Queer Puente for Healing,”



Manuel Alejandro Pérez



“Make America Great Again,”



Robert Gutierrez-Perez



Chapter 3: “Fronteras Toxicas: Toward a Borderland Ecological Consciousness,”



Carlos Tarin



“Dolores,”



Masha Sukovic







Part II: The Coyolxauhqui Imperative: Health Communication, Disability Studies, Pain, and Healing



Chapter 4: “Facing Tlahtlacolli (Microaggressions) with Nepantla and Conocimiento: A Xicana Epistemological Approach,”



Sarah Amira de la Garza



Chapter 5: “A Letter to My Hija: Anzaldúa’s Coyolxauhqui Imperative, Your Bisabuela’s Withering Body, and the Life-Affirming Possibilities of Woundedness,”



Luis Manuel Andrade



Chapter 6: “I take something from both worlds”: An Anzaldúan Analysis of Mexican-American Women’s Conceptualizations of Ethnic Identity,”



Leandra Hinojosa Hernández







Part III: Theorizing Nepantla: Creative Ethnographies on the Path of Conocimiento



Chapter 7: “Communicating Nepantla: An Anzaldúan Theory of Identity,”



Sarah De Los Santos Upton



Chapter 8: “Between Worlds: A Personal Journey of Self-reflection While on the Path of Conocimiento,”



Edmundo M. Aguilar



Chapter 9: “Remembering Gloria Anzaldúa Globally Through A Documentary Altar: ALTAR Cruzando Fronteras, Building Bridges,”



Diana I. Bowen







Part IV: Critical/Cultural Rhetorics of Ambiguity and Hybridity



Chapter 10: “Sweetening the Pot: Culinary Adventures in Hybridity,”



Stephanie L. Gomez



“La Dueña de la Casa,”



Masha Sukovic



Chapter 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 Calafell







Part V: Women of Color and Radical Coalition Building



“Whispers in the Dark: A Collection of Poems,”



Shantel Martinez



Chapter 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 Agloro



Chapter 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-Perez



Chapter 15: “Building Community, Decolonizing Spirituality, and Women of Color Feminism: Applying Gloria Anzaldúa in and out of the Classroom for Healing and Empowerment,”



Xamuel Bañales



Chapter 16: “Carrying Gloria on My Back: A Pedagogic and Research Journal,”



Luis Gabriel Sanchez Rose



Chapter 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