Nepantla Squared
Transgender Mestiz@ Histories in Times of Global Shift
Nebraska · Print & ebook · October 1, 2020
2021 Lambda Literary Awards Finalist Nepantla Squared maps the lives of two transgender mestiz@s, one during the turn of the twentieth century and one during the turn of the twenty-first century, to chart the ways race, gender, sex, ethnicity, and capital function differently in different times.
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- Who it’s for
- Two transgender mestiz@ lives frame changing relations among race, gender, sex, ethnicity, and capital.
- Themes
- Transgender mestiz@ histories, Race, gender, and capital, Global capitalism and gender
- Pacing
- Reflective
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2021 Lambda Literary Awards Finalist Nepantla Squared maps the lives of two transgender mestiz@s, one during the turn of the twentieth century and one during the turn of the twenty-first century, to chart the ways race, gender, sex, ethnicity, and capital function differently in different times. To address the erasure of transgender mestiz@ realities from history, Linda Heidenreich employs an intersectional analysis that critiques monopoly and global capitalism.
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Heidenreich builds on the work of Gloria Anzaldúa’s concept of nepantleras, those who could live between and embody more than one culture, to coin the term nepantla², marking times of capitalist transition where gender was also in motion. Transgender mestiz@s, too, embodied that movement. Heidenreich insists on a careful examination of the multiple in-between spaces that construct lives between cultures and genders during in-between times of shifting empire and capital. In so doing, they offer an important discussion of race, class, nation, and citizenship centered on transgender bodies of color that challenges readers to rethink the way they understand the gendered social and economic challenges of today.
Transgender Mestiz@ Histories
Two transgender mestiz@ lives frame changing relations among race, gender, sex, ethnicity, and capital.
Come here for
- Two transgender mestiz@ lives across the turn of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries
- An intersectional critique of monopoly and global capitalism
Expect
- Discussion of race, class, nation, and citizenship centered on transgender bodies of color
- Analysis of gender in times of shifting empire and capital
Where it sits
| Transgender Studies | 84% |
|---|---|
| Hispanic American Studies | 40% |
| LGBTQ+ History | 37% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- LGBTQ+ Lives
- Latin American History
- Transgender Studies
- Authors
- Linda Heidenreich
- Publisher
- Nebraska
- Published
- October 1, 2020
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Transgender mestiz@ histories · Race, gender, and capital · Global capitalism and gender
- Reading lane
- LGBTQ+ Lives