Nepantla Squared [electronic resource] : Transgender Mestiz@ Histories in Times of Global Shift
Heidenreich, Linda2020
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Nepantla Squared maps the lives of two transgender mestizas, one during the turn of the twentieth century and one during the turn of the twenty-first century, to chart the ways race, gender, sex, ethnicity, and capital function differently in different times. To address the erasure of transgender mestiza realities from history, Linda Heidenreich employs an intersectional analysis that critiques monopoly and global capitalism. Heidenreich builds on the work of Gloria Anzaldúa’s concept of nepantleras, those who could live between and embody more than one culture, to coin the term nepantla², marking times of capitalist transition where gender was also in motion. Transgender mestizas, too, embodied that movement. Heidenreich insists on a careful examination of the multiple in-between spaces that construct lives between cultures and genders during in-between times of shifting empire and capital. In so doing, they offer an important discussion of race, class, nation, and citizenship centered on transgender bodies of color that challenges readers to rethink the way they understand the gendered social and economic challenges of today.
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[Place of publication not identified] : University of Nebraska Press, 2020
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1 online resource (1 text file)
Series:
Expanding Frontiers: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality
ISBN:
9781496222398
Language:
English
BRN:
3160607