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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “sandra ruiz”
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  • Tears for Tears

    Aesthetics in Grief Minor

    by Sandra Ruiz ...
    Series series Minoritarian Aesthetics
    How minoritarian artists grapple with both personal and collective griefTears for Tears documents moments of tension, negotiation, transformation, and incommensurability between singular loss and mass death through the work of contemporary minoritarian artists. These artists interrogate the cultural, social, and political enmeshment of death by questioning the interior and exterior conditions of ... Read more

    Was $26.99 USD Now $19.99 USD

  • Left Turns in Brown Study

    by Sandra Ruiz ...
    Series series Writing Matters!
    In Left Turns in Brown Study Sandra Ruiz offers a poetic-theoretical inquiry into the interlacing forms of study and mourning. Drawing on Black and Brown activism and theory, Ruiz interweaves poetry, memoir, lyrical essay, and vignettes to examine study as an emancipatory practice. Proposing “brown study” as key for understanding how Brownness harbors loss and suffering along with the possibility ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Building Sustainable Worlds

    Latinx Placemaking in the Midwest

    by Theresa Delgadillo, Geraldo L. Cadava, Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes, Delia Fernández-Jones, Ariana Ruiz, Sandra Ruiz, Carmen Hernandez0, PBVM1, J. Gibrán Villalobos2, Kevin Mary Davalos3, Sergio M. González4, Emiliano Aguilar Jr.5, Laura Fernández-Jones6, Marie Lerma7, Leila Vieira8, Ramón H. Rivera-Servera9 ...
    Series series Latinos in Chicago and Midwest
    Latina/o/x places exist as both tangible physical phenomena and gatherings created and maintained by creative cultural practices. In this collection, an interdisciplinary group of contributors critically examines the many ways that varied Latina/o/x communities cohere through cultural expression. Authors consider how our embodied experiences of place, together with our histories and knowledge, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Ricanness

    Enduring Time in Anticolonial Performance

    by Sandra Ruiz ...
    Honorable Mention, 2020 Barnard Hewitt Award for Outstanding Research in Theatre History, given by the American Society for Theatre ResearchArgues that Ricanness operates as a continual performance of bodily endurance against US colonialismIn 1954, Dolores “Lolita” Lebrón and other members of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party led a revolutionary action on the chambers of Congress, firing several ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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  • In Theory, Darling

    Searching for José Esteban Muñoz and the Queer Imagination

    by Marcos Gonsalez ...
    A love letter to queer of color theory and how it has helped the author to discover himself, reclaim identities, celebrate queer joy, and work towards liberationMarcos Gonsalez found his greatest source of joy when he encountered queer theory in college. As they put it, "queers and college go together like peanut butter and jelly," and for them, this was especially true. Seeing himself reflected ... Read more

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  • Archiving an Epidemic

    Art, AIDS, and the Queer Chicanx Avant-Garde

    by Robb Hernández ...
    Series Book 36 - Sexual Cultures
    Honorable Mention, 2021 Latinx Studies Section Outstanding Book Award, given by the Latin American Studies Association*Winner, 2020 Latino Book Awards in the LGBTQ+ Themed SectionFinalist, 2019 Lambda Literary Award in LGBTQ Studies*Critically reimagines Chicanx art, unmasking its queer afterlifeEmboldened by the boom in art, fashion, music, and retail culture in 1980s Los Angeles, ... ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Buenas Noches, American Culture

    Latina/o Aesthetics of Night

    by María DeGuzmán ...
    Often treated like night itself—both visible and invisible, feared and romanticized—Latina/os make up the largest minority group in the US. In her newest work, María DeGuzmán explores representations of night in art and literature from the Caribbean, Colombia, Central and South America, and the US, calling into question night's effect on the formation of identity for Latina/os in and outside of ... Read more

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  • On Freedom

    Four Songs of Care and Constraint

    by Maggie Nelson ...
    Named a Most Anticipated/Best Book of the Month by: NPR * USA Today * Time * Washington Post * Vulture * Women’s Wear Daily * Bustle * LitHub * The Millions * Vogue * Nylon * Shondaland * Chicago Review of Books * The Guardian * Los Angeles Times * Kirkus * Publishers WeeklySo often deployed as a jingoistic, even menacing rallying cry, or li... ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • A History of My Brief Body

    by Billy-Ray Belcourt ...
    The youngest ever winner of the Griffin Prize mines his personal history in a brilliant new essay collection seeking to reconcile the world he was born into with the world that could be.For readers of Ocean Vuong and Maggie Nelson and fans of Heart Berries by Terese Marie Mailhot, A History of My Brief Body is a brave, raw, and fiercely intelligent collection of essays and vignettes on grief, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Economies of Desire

    Sex and Tourism in Cuba and the Dominican Republic

    by Amalia L. Cabezas ...
    Is a native-born tour guide who has sex with tourists—in exchange for dinner or gifts or cash—merely a prostitute or gigolo? What if the tourist continues to send gifts or money to the tour guide after returning home? As this original and provocative book demonstrates, when it comes to sex—and the effects of capitalism and globalization—nothing is as simple as it might seem.Based on ten years of ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Fresh, Green Life

    A Novel

    by Sebastian Castillo ...
    After a year of self-imposed exile, a young writer attends a New Year’s Eve party in hopes of reconnecting with old classmates in a blackly humorous tale set on a single snowy nightAfter experiencing a mysterious heart-related health scare, our narrator, Sebastian Castillo, who shares his name with this book’s author, resolves to spend a year alone in self-imposed exile, passing the time by ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Deeply Rooted in the Present

    Heritage, Memory, and Identity in Brazilian Quilombos

    by Mary Lorena Kenny ...
    Series series Teaching Culture: UTP Ethnographies for the Classroom
    Asking what it means to be quilombola (descendants of African slaves) in the twenty-first century, Kenny illustrates how heritage and identity do not simply exist, but are continually being constructed to reflect particular historical circumstances. The book includes supplementary exercises that encourage readers to make connections between the case study at hand, their own heritage, and heritage ... Read more

    $26.99 USD