Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. About the Series ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction: Papelitos Guardados: Theorizing Latinidades Through Testimonio 1
6. I. GENEALOGIES OF EMPOWERMENT
7. Certified Organic Intellectual 27
8. My Father’s Hands 33
9. Vignettes of a Working-Class Puerto Rican Girl in Brooklyn, New York 39
10. Silence Begins at Home 43
11. You Speak Spanish Because You Are Jewish? 55
12. Getting There Cuando No Hay Camino 60
13. Reflection and Rebirth: The Evolving Life of a Latina Academic 69
14. Mi Primera Amiguita: Carmelita 86
15. The House That Mamá Biela Built 90
16. Lightning 96
17. My Name Is This Story 100
18. Resisting the Alchemy of Erasure: Journey to Labor Ideas 104
19. Esta Risa No Es de Loca 114
20. A Escondidas: A Chicana Feminist Teacher Who Writes/A Chicana Feminist Writer Who Teaches 123
21. Canto de Mi Madre/Canto de Mi Padre 132
22. Daughter of Bootstrap 139
23. Beyond Survival: A Politics/Poetics of Puerto Rican Consciousness 148
24. I Can Fly: Of Dreams and Other Nonfictions 156
25. II. ALCHEMIES OF ERASURE
26. The Christmas Present 169
27. Snapshots from My Daze in School 177
28. Point of Departure 185
29. Another Way to Grow Up Puerto Rican 192
30. El Beso 196
31. The Prize of a New Cadillac 201
32. La Tra(d)ición 204
33. Between Perfection and Invisibility 207
34. Diary of La Llorona with a Ph.D. 212
35. Welcome to the Ivory Tower 218
36. I Still Don’t Know Why 224
37. Lessons Learned from an Assistant Professor 227
38. Don’t You Like Being in the University? 229
39. Temporary Latina 231
40. Dispelling the Sombras, Grito mi nombre con rayos de luz 238
41. Biting Through 245
42. Sand from Varadero Beach 247
43. Speaking Among Friends: Whose Empowerment, Whose Resistance? 250
44. III. THE BODY RE/MEMBERS
45. Reading the Body 264
46. Missing Body 266
47. Malabareando/Juggling 269
48. Migraine/Jaqueca 271
49. The Wart 273
50. Why My Ears Aren’t Pierced 275
51. Night Terrors 277
52. La Princesa 286
53. Forced by Circumstance 289
54. Let Me Sleep 291
55. Depression 293
56. Desde el Diván: Testimonios from the Couch 294
57. Telling To Live: Devoro la Mentira, Resucitando Mi Ser 298
58. IV. PASSION, DESIRES, AND CELEBRATIONS
59. Shameless Desire 305
60. La Cosa 307
61. Boleros 309
62. A Working-class Bruja’s Fears and Desires 314
63. Aún 318
64. The Names I Used to Call You/The Names I Do Call You 319
65. Plátanos and Palms 321
66. Three Penny Opera or Eve’s Symphony in B Minor 323
67. Descubrimiento(s) 327
68. Entre Nosotras 331
69. Pisco and Cranberry 334
70. De lo que es Amor, de lo que es Vida 336
71. Eating Mango 344
72. Everyday Grace 345
73. Tenemos que Seguir Luchando 348
74. Select Bibliography 357
75. About the Authors 373