Arturo J. Aldama is Associate Professor of Latino and Ethnic Studies, University of Colorado at Boulder.

Foreword Alicia Gaspar de AlbaIntroduction: Toward a De-Colonial Performatics of the US Latina and Latino Borderlands Chela Sandoval, Arturo J. Aldama, and Peter J. GarcíaACTO 1. Performing Emancipation: Inner Work, Public Acts1. Body as Codex-ized Word / Cuerpo Como Palabra (en-)Códice-ado: Chicana/Indígena and Mexican Transnational Performative Indigeneities Micaela Díaz-Sánchez2. Milongueando Macha Homoerotics: Dancing the Tango, Torta Style (a Performative Testimonio) Maria Lugones3. The Other Train That Derails Us: Performing Latina Anxiety Disorder in "The Night before Christmas" Angie Chabram-Dernersesian4. The Art of Place: The Work of Diane Gamboa Karen Mary Davalos5. Human Rights, Conditioned Choices, and Performance in Ana Castillo's Mixquihuala Letters Carl Gutiérrez-Jones6. Decolonizing Gender Performativity: A Thesis for Emancipation in Early Chicana Feminist Thought (1969-1979) Daphne V. Taylor-GarcíaACTO 2. Ethnographies of Performance: The Río Grande and Beyond7. Performing Indigeneity in a South Texas Community: Los Matachines de la Santa Cruz Norma E. Cantú8. Re-Membering Chelo Silva: The Bolero in Chicana Perspective (Women's Bodies and Voices in Postrevolutionary Urbanization: The Bohemian, Urban, and Transnational) Yolanda Broyles-González9. Roland Barthes, Mojado, in Brownface: Chisme-laced Snapshots Documenting the Preposterous and Fact-laced Claim That the Postmodern Was Born along the Borders of the Río Grande River William Anthony Nericcio10. Decolonial Border Queers: Case Studies of Chicana/o Lesbians, Gay Men, and Transgender Folks in El Paso / Juárez Emma Pérez11 "Te Amo, Te Amo, Te Amo": Lorenzo Antonio and Sparx Performing Nuevo México Music Peter J. García12. Sonic Geographies and Anti-Border Musics: "We Didn't Cross the Border, the Borders Crossed Us" Roberto D. Hernández13. Lila Downs's Borderless Performance: Transculturation and Musical Communication Brenda M. RomeroACTO 3. Nepantla Aesthetics in the Trans/Nacional14. El Macho: How the Women of Teatro Luna Became Men Paloma Martínez-Cruz and Liza Ann Acosta15. Suturing Las Ramblas to East LA: Transnational Performances of Josefina López's Real Women Have Curves Tiffany Ana López16. Loving Revolution: Same-Sex Marriage and Queer Resistance in Monica Palacios's Amor y Revolución Marivel T. Danielson17. Is Ugly Betty a Real Woman? Representations of Chicana Femininity Inscribed as a Site of (Transformative) Difference Jennifer Esposito18. Indian Icon, Gay Macho: Felipe Rose of Village People Gabriel S. EstradaACTO 4. (De)Criminalizing Bodies: Ironies of Performance19. No Somos Criminales: Crossing Borders in Contemporary Latina and Latino Music Arturo J. Aldama20. "Pelones y Matones": Chicano Cholos Perform for a Punitive Audience Victor M. Rios and Patrick Lopez-Aguado21. Mexica Hip Hop: Male Expressive Culture Pancho McFarland22. The Latino Comedy Project and Border Humor in Performance Jennifer Alvarez Dickinson23. (Re)Examining the Latin Lover: Screening Chicano/Latino Sexualities Daniel Enrique Pérez24. Rumba's Democratic Circle in the Age of Legal Simulacra Berta Jottar-PalenzuelaList of ContributorsIndex