Latinidad and film

Dr. Dania Abreu-Torres, Trinity University, San Antonio, U.S., is an associate professor and her research is dedicated to the study of race, race relations, gender issues, and national identities. Her work can be found in the publications Centro Journal, A Contracorriente, and Hispania, among others.
Dr. Rosana Blanco-Cano, Trinity University, San Antonio, U.S., is the co-author of 100 Years of Spanish Cinema (2009), author of Cuerpos Disidentes del México imaginado: Cultura, género, etnia y nación más allá del proyecto posrevolucionario (2010), and co-editor of Global Mexican Cultural Productions (2011). Her current research is about gender and sexuality in contemporary Mexican television.
Dr. Rita Urquijo-Ruiz, Trinity University, San Antonio, U.S., is a Mexicana/Chicana fronteriza queer educator, translator, activist, and performer who specializes in Chicanx/Latinx literatures, cultures, gender/sexuality, film, theater, and performance studies. She is the author of Wild Tongues: Transnational Mexican Popular Culture and the translator of several children's books and the opera The Three Women of Jerusalem.

Part I Breaking the Mold.- Chapter 1. Danzón (María Novaro, Mexico/Spain, 1991).- Chapter 2. Brincando el Charco: Portrait of a Puerto Rican (Frances Negrón-Muntaner. 1994, U.S./Puerto Rico).- Part II Anxieties and Sexualities.- Chapter 3. Tan de Repente (Dir. Diego Lerman. 2002, Argentina).- Chapter 4. Madeinusa (Claudia Llosa. 2006, Perú).- Chapter 5. Qué Tan Lejos (Tania Hermida. 2006, Ecuador).- Part III Breaking the Binary.- Chapter 6. La Mission (Peter Bratt, USA, 2009).- Chapter 7. Entre Nos (Paola Mendoza and Gloria La Morte. 2009, the United States).- Chapter 8. La Hija Natural (Dir. Leticia Tonos. 2011, República Dominicana).- Part IV Depatriarchalizing.- Chapter 9. Mosquita y Mari (Aurora Guerrero, the United States, 2012).- Chapter 10. Pelo Malo (Mariana Rondón. 2013, Venezuela).- Chapter 11. Bruising for Besos (Adelina Anthony, the United States, 
2016).