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<span>This co-edited collection explores contemporary research studies, performative writing, poetry, Latina/o studies, and gender studies through the lens of Gloria Anzaldúa’s theories, methods, and concepts. These concepts include borderlands theories, nepantla, mestiza consciousness, the Coyolxauhqui Imperative, conocimiento, and spirituality.</span>

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