Decentering the Nation

winner of the 2021 Ellen Koskoff Edited Volume Prize

This book considers how global capitalism has upset the symbolic economy of "Mexican" cultural discourse. It focuses on the cultural processes through which people contest ideas about race, gender, and sexuality; reframe ideas of memory, history, and belonging; and negotiate the experiences of dislocation that affect them.

Foreword
by Chela Sandoval
Introduction: Post-Mexicanidad apropos of the Postnational
by Jesú s A. Ramos-Kittrell
1. Afrodiasporic Visual and Sonic Assemblages: Racialized Anxieties and the Disruption of Mexicanidad in Cine de Rumberas
by Laura G. Gutié rrez
2. The Danza de Inditas in the Mexican Huasteca Region: Decolonizig Nationalist Discourse
by Lizette Alegre Gonzá lez
3. Chavela's Frida: Decolonial Performativity of the Queer Llorona
by Ana R. Alonso-Minutti
4. Vaquero World: Queer Mexicanidad, Trans Performance, and the Undoing of Nation
by Nadine Hubbs
5."Soy gallo de Sinaloa jugado en varios palenques": Production and Consumption of Narco-music in a Transnational World
by Cé sar Burgos Dá vila and Helena Simonett
6. Yo lo digo sin tristezas (I say it without lament): Transnational Migration, Postnational Voicings, and the Aural Politics of Nation
by Alex E. Chá vez
7. Reclaiming 'the Border' in Texas-Mexican Conjunto Heritage and Cultural Memory
by Cathy Ragland
8. Sounding Cumbia: Past and Present in a Globalized Mexican Periphery
by Jesú s A. Ramos-Kittrell
9. Southern California Chicanx Music and Culture: Affective Strategies within a Browning Temporal System of Global Contradictions
by Peter J. Garcí a
10. Listening from 'The Other Side': Music, Border Studies and The Limits of Identity Politics
by Alejandro L. Madrid