Nepantla Squared

Transgender Mestiz@ Histories in Times of Global Shift

Linda Heidenreich

• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN: 9781496213402
• eBook ISBN: 9781496222398
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Social Science Biographies
• Index: History

2021 Lambda Literary Awards Finalist Nepantla Squared maps the lives of two transgender mestiz@s, 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 mestiz@ 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 mestiz@s, 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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1. A World Created through Motion
• 2. Motion-Change in the Life and Times of Jack Mugarrieta Garland
• 3. nafta and Generative Movement in the Sixth Sun
• 4. Motion-Change in the Life and Times of Gwen Amber Rose Araujo
• 5. Nepantler@s of the Sixth Sun
• Conclusion
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index
• About Linda Heidenreich
• Series List