Querencia: Reflections on the New Mexico Homeland

List of Illustrations
Foreword. Querencia, mi patria chica
Rudolfo Anaya
Agradecimientos y Reconocimientos

Introduction. Mi Querencia: A Connection between Place and Identity
Levi Romero

Part I. Community Querencias
Chapter One. The Long, Wondrous Life of Ventura Chávez, 1926-2013
Simón Ventura Trujillo
Chapter Two. Remapping Patriotic Practices: The Case of the Las Vegas 4th of July Fiestas
Lillian Gorman
Chapter Three. Critical Reflections on Chicanx and Indigenous Scholarship and Activism
Kevin Brown, Vanessa Fonseca-Chávez, Tey Marianna Nunn, Irene Vásquez, Myla Vicenti Carpio

Part II. Screening Querencias
Chapter Four. Contested Querencia in The Last Conquistador by John J. Valadez and Cristina Ibarra
Vanessa Fonseca-Chávez
Chapter Five. Deep Roots in Community: Querencia and Salt of the Earth
Karen R. Roybal
Chapter Six. New Mexico Triptych: Querencia Etched in Wood, in Media, and in Our Memory
Spencer R. Herrera

Part III. Memory as Querencia
Chapter Seven. (Re)Signifying Gender and Sexuality for the Nuevomexicana Historical Body: The Politics of Reading Place in Women's Tales from the New Mexico WPA: La Diabla a Pie
Bernadine Hernández
Chapter Eight. Erasing Querencia from Los Alamos: Racist and Sexualized Portrayals of New Mexican Women and Place in the Television Series Manhattan
Myrriah Gómez
Chapter Nine. Mestiza Consciousness a la MeXicana in Ultima and Agueda Martínez: Bridging and Legitimizing Querencia in the Borderlans
Norma A. Valenzuela

Part IV. Cultural Landscapes of Querencia
Chapter Ten. Ak'u, Beloved
C. Maurus Chino
Chapter Eleven. Homeland Security: Sustaining Indigenous Culture and People through Narrative (Re)Remembering and Future (Re)Imagining in Simon Ortiz's Men on the Moon and Woven Stone
Jonathan Wilson
Chapter Twelve. La Querencia: The Genízaro Cultural Landscape Model of Community Land Grants in Northern New Mexico
Moises Gonzales

Part V. Storytelling as Querencia
Chapter Thirteen. La Llorona as Querencia: Shared Stories and Sense of Place
Kelly Medina-López
Chapter Fourteen. The Revolution Begins at La Cocina!
Patricia Marina Trujillo, Corrine Kaa Pedi Povi Sanchez, and Scott Davis
Chapter Fifteen. Following the Manito Trail: A Tale of Two Querencias
Levi Romero

Contributors
Index