Harmonizing Latina Visions and Voices

<P><I>Harmonizing Latina Visions and Voices: Cultural Explorations ofEntornos</I> discursively challenges the erasures stigma and silences imposed on women by functioning as a harmonizing choir a collection of voices to testify on mujerismo its vision and its promise for (our) future. This collection puts “on the record” a pathway toward liberation that pushes back against white supremacist projects unleashed by academia our families official narratives of the State and immigration. This book does not seek to equate the experiences of all Latinas or envision a one-size-fits-all response. We harmonize these diverse voices understanding that these stories poems and essays are invoking different spaces times and experiences. We offer them as an intergenerational intellectual and spiritual dialogue. As a practice this work centers and contextualizes how women’s resistance is articulated and expressed. The stories reflected in the chapters that follow are often matricentric transnational and queer. Some recurring themes center on the policing policies and legislations that govern Latina’s bodies and the entornos (social/environmental worlds) in which they move are detained or embodied.</P>