Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations xi
4. Preface. The Art of Necessity xv
5. Acknowledgments xvii
6. Introduction 1
7. Contributors 1
8. I. SPINNING— MAKING THREAD
9. 1. The Hands of Consuelo Jimenez Underwood: A Filmmaker’s Reflections 25
10. 2. Charged Objects: The Multivalent Fiber Art of Consuelo Jimenez Underwood 35
11. II. WEAVING— HAND WORK
12. 3. History/Whose-Story? Postcoloniality and Contemporary Chicana Art 53
13. 4. A Tear in the Curtain: Hilos y Cultura in the Art of Consuelo Jimenez Underwood 72
14. 5. Prayers for the Planet: Reweaving the Natural and the Social—Consuelo Jimenez Underwood’s Welcome to Flower-Landia 80
15. 6 Consuelo Jimenez Underwood: Welcome to Flower-Landia 123
16. 7. Between the Lines: Documenting Consuelo Jimenez Underwood’s Fiber Pathways 132
17. 8. Flags, the Sacred, and a Different America in Consuelo Jimenez Underwood’s Fiber Art 143
18. 9. Garments for the Goddess of the Américas: The American Dress Triptych 155
19. 10. Space, Place, and Belonging in Borderlines: Countermapping in the Art of Consuelo Jimenez Underwood 174
20. 11. Decolonizing Aesthetics in Mexican and Xicana Fiber Art: The Art of Consuelo Jimenez Underwood and Georgina Santos 227
21. 12. Reading Our Mothers: Decolonization and Cultural Identity in Consuelo Jimenez Underwood’s Rebozos for Our Mothers 247
22. 13. Weaving Water: Toward an Indigenous Method of Self-and Community Care 264
23. III. OFF THE LOOM— INTO THE WORLD
24. 14. Consuelo Jimenez Underwood: Artist, Educator, and Advocate 287
25. 15. Being Chicanx Studies: Lessons for Racial Justice from the Work and Life of Consuelo Jimenez Underwood 305
26. 16. Blue Río Tapestries 310
27. Notes 327
28. Bibliography 356
29. Contributors 370
30. Index 377