Storying Son Jarocho Fandango

Cueponcaxochitl D. Moreno Sandoval is an associate professor of Native American and Mexican Indigenous Studies at California State University, Stanislaus. Lirio Patton is a clinical assistant professor of teacher preparation at Arizona State University. Julissa Ruiz Ramirez, Gregorio G. Rocha-Tabera, and Jennifer Campos Lopez are scholars and members of the Son Xinachtli Collective, a group of intergenerational learners of the son jarocho fandango tradition.

Contents
Foreword Martha González  xiii
Series Foreword Django Paris  xv
Preface Lirio Patton  xix
With Deep Gratitude  xxiii
Prólogo: El fandango jarocho como herramienta pedagógica  xxvii
Por Gilberto Gutiérrez Silva y Gisela Farías Luna
1.  Winding Into the Fandango Vortex  1
Envisioning Son Caracol  2
Note to the Reader  7
Culturally Decolonizing Pedagogy  7
Organization of the Book  13
2.  Grounding an Understanding of Son Jarocho Fandango Pedagogy  15
Theoretically Grounding Application of Son Jarocho Fandango as a Culturally Decolonizing Pedagogy  16
Experiencing SJF's Ontological Structures  28
Son Caracol Taking Root  33
Student Body at Cucunuchi University, a Brief Overview  36
Ethnic Studies Son Jarocho Fandango Students—Blossoms  38
3.  A Call-and-Response Approach to Activating Ancestral Worlds in the Classroom  39
Introducing ETHS 4975 Afro-Mexican Indigenous Cultural Practice, Fall 2019 and Spring 2020  44
Circling Up With Students as Knowledge Keepers and (Emerging) Experts  47
Entering the Portal of Son Jarocho Fandango Ecologies and Possibilities  47
Collective Agency Toward Co-Liberation  76
Son Caracol Community Agreements  77
La Peña Cultural Center (2019)  79
Annual Indigenous Peoples Day Event—Indigenous Students in Activism (ISA)  80
Lessons On Institutionalizing Son Jarocho Fandango Practice at a Public University  84
4.  Student-Led Co-Liberation Qualities of the Son Jarocho Fandango Movement  87
Student-Led Fandanguitos  88
Communities Engaged in Son Jarocho Fandango as a Decolonial Praxis  116
5.  Trans-Bordering, Transgressive, Transformative Aspirations  119
Overview  119
Conclusion: Winding Down the Written Fandango  132
Appendix A: Son Jarocho Instruments  137
Appendix B: Methodological Notes: Son Jarocho Fandango as Method  139
Appendix C: Maestra Angela Flores on Teaching Son Jarocho: Honoring and Creating Relationships With Indigenous Musicians of Son Jarocho  147
Angela Flores
Appendix D: Son Caracol Members' Connection to SJF and This Project  151
Appendix E: Key and Recurring Terms  153
References  155
Index  165
About the Authors  171