Frontera Madre(hood): Brown Mothers Challenging Oppression and Transborder Violence at the U.S.-Mexico Border

The topic of mothers and mothering transcends all spaces, from popular culture to intellectual thought and critique. This collection of essays bridges both methodological and theoretical frameworks to explore forms of mothering that challenge hegemonic understandings of parenting and traditional notions of Latinx womxnhood. It articulates the collective experiences of Latinx, Black, and Indigenous mothering from both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border.

Thirty contributors discuss their lived experiences, research, or community work challenging multiple layers of oppression, including militarization of the border, border security propaganda, feminicides, drug war and colonial violence, grieving and loss of a child, challenges and forms of resistance by Indigenous mothers, working mothers in maquiladoras, queer mothering, academia and motherhood, and institutional barriers by government systems to access affordable health care and environmental justice. Also central to this collection are questions on how migration and detention restructure forms of mothering. Overall, this collection encapsulates how mothering is shaped by the geopolitics of border zones, which also transcends biological, sociological, or cultural and gendered tropes regarding ideas of motherhood, who can mother, and what mothering personifies.

Contributors
Elva M. Arredondo
Cynthia Bejarano
Bertha A. Berm?dez Tapia
Margaret Brown Vega
Macrina C?rdenas Monta?o
Claudia Yolanda Casillas
Luz Estela (Lucha) Castro
Marisa Elena Duarte
Taide Elena
Sylvia Fern?ndez Quintanilla
Paula Flores Bonilla
Judith Flores Carmona
Sandra Guti?rrez
Ma. Eugenia Hern?ndez S?nchez
Irene Lara
Leticia L?pez Manzano
Mariana Martinez
Maria Cristina Morales
Paola Isabel Nava Gonzales
Olga Odgers-Ortiz
Priscilla P?rez
Silvia Quintanilla Moreno
Cirila Quintero Ram?rez
Felicia Rangel-Samponaro
Coda Rayo-Garza
Shamma Rayo-Gutierrez
Marisol Rodr?guez Sosa
Brenda Rubio
Ariana Saludares
Victoria M. Telles
Michelle T?llez
Marisa S. Torres
Edith Trevi?o Espinosa
Mariela V?squez Tobon
Hilda Villegas

Author: Cynthia Bejarano
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: 09/17/2024
Pages: 368
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 8.60h x 6.20w x 1.40d
ISBN: 9780816546688

About the Author
Cynthia Bejarano is a regents professor in the Gender and Sexuality Studies Program and the College of Arts and Sciences Fulton Endowed Chair at New Mexico State University. Her scholarship centers on intersectionality and violence at the U.S.-Mexico border.

Maria Cristina Morales is a professor of sociology at the University of Texas at El Paso who studies the structural inequalities at the U.S.-Mexico border and those targeting Latinx people. She is the co-author of Latinos in the U.S.