Aldama co-edits two books

Performing the U.S. Latina and Latino Borderlands

Arturo J. Aldama, associate professor and chair of the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder, is the co-editor of two new books.

The first, “Performing the U.S. Latina and Latino Borderlands,” analyzes the expression of Latina/o cultural identity through performance. With music, theater, dance, visual arts, body art, spoken word, performance activism, fashion and street theater as points of entry, contributors discuss cultural practices and the fashioning of identity in Latino/a communities throughout the U.S.

Co-editors of the book are Chela Sandoval, University of California, Santa Cruz, and Peter Garcia, California State University Northridge.

Other CU faculty contributing to the volume are Brenda Romero, associate professor of musicology, Emma Pérez, professor of ethnic studies, and Penny Kelsey, associate chair for undergraduate studies in the Department of English. Aldama also has written a piece for the book.

Comparative Indigeneities of the Americas: Towards a Hemispheric Approach

The second book, “Comparative Indigeneities of the Americas: Towards a Hemispheric Approach,” is the inaugural tome in a new series. Contributors examine the effects of colonization on the Indigenous peoples of the Américas over the past 500 and the forms of resistance, resilience and sovereignty and contend that understanding the commonalities in these Indigenous experiences will strengthen resistance to colonial forces still at play.

Co-editors are M. Bianet Castellanos, associate professor of American studies at the University of Minnesota, and Lourdes Gutiérrez Najera, assistant professor of Latin American, Latino, and Caribbean studies and anthropology at Dartmouth College.