Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Weirding Out Latinx America / Trevor Boffone and Cristina Herrera
  • Section 1. Artists and Punks: Chicana Teens, Zines, and Poetry Scenes : Gabi, A Girl in Pieces by Isabel Quintero / Amanda Ellis
  • Praxis of Refusal : Self-Fashioning Identity and Throwing Attitude in Perez's The First Rule of Punk / Lettycia Terrones
  • Broken Open : Writing, Healing, and Affirmation in Isabel Quintero's Gabi, A Girl in Pieces and Erika L. Sánchez's I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter / Adrianna M. Santos
  • Section 2. Superheroes and Other Worldly Beings: Bite Me : The Allure of Vampires and Dark Magic in Chicana Young Adult Literature / Christi Cook
  • Afuerxs and Cultural Practice in Shadowshaper and Labyrinth Lost / Domino Perez
  • The Art of Afro-Latina Consciousness in Shadowshaper / Ella Diaz
  • Section 3. LatiNerds and Bookworms: The Smartest Girl in the World : Normalizing Intellectualism through Representations of Smart Latinx Youth on Stage / Roxanne Schroeder-Arce
  • "These Latin Girls Mean Business ": Expanding the Boundaries of Latina Youth Identity in Meg Medina's YA Novel, Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass / Cristina Herrera
  • Tomás Rivera : The Original Latinx Outsider
  • Section 4. Non-Cholos in the Hood: Young, Gay, and Latino : "Feeling Brown" in Emilio Rodriguez's Swimming While Drowning / Trevor Boffone
  • What Can We Learn from Cool Cats? : Chillante Pedagogy, Gary Soto, and the Chato Series / Elena Aviles
  • The Coming-of-Age Experience in Chicanx Queer Novels What Night Brings and Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe / Carolina Alonso