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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- Introduction. Structural Violence, Gender, and Autonomy on the U.S.-Mexico Border -- 1. Mapping Power: Colonialism, Gendered Citizenship, Land, and the State -- 2. La Frontera: A History of Subjugation and Insurgency -- 3. Social Transformation in the Present: Reinventing Community and Self -- 4. Maclovianas and the Shaping of Autonomy in the Spaces of Neoliberal Neglect -- Conclusion. Cada uno su granito de arena : Transnational Organizing, and the Future of Maclovio Rojas -- Epilogue -- Selected Glossary -- Notes -- References -- Index -- About the Author.

Using the personal experience of a junior faculty member in a women's studies program as testimony, the article explores the numerous penalties that women of color in the academy endure during pregnancy, childbirth, and early child-rearing years. It highlights the sacrifices paid as a result of motherhood not being closeted. Based on gendered, racialized, and classed assumptions of who belongs in the academy, it argues that family-friendly policies that allow for faculty members to choose having both family and career are largely insufficient, nonexistent, or unmonitored. The article centers the lives and stories of the often invisible mothers of color in the academy to critique the misaligned rhetoric for diversity that exists within the universities they serve. It seeks to facilitate the inclusion of their voices and experiences in the reimagining and transformation of university culture, while focusing on several practices that could help shape this vision.

In October of 2020, the University of Arizona's College of Social and Behavioral Sciences hosted a lecture series called Womanpower. The final lecture was an interview between Michelle Téllez and Yalitza Aparicio—an Indigenous woman, actress, and activist. This interview transcript (originally conducted in Spanish) discusses Aparicio's childhood, her experiences with discrimination, her role in the groundbreaking film Roma, and her activism on behalf of domestic workers and Indigenous peoples. In this interview, Téllez highlights issues of Indigenous rights, recognizing how Aparicio's platform can bring visibility to the O'odham land defenders fighting for their sacred lands today, but also to Indigenous peoples fighting for their territories in Mexico, as alluded to in Roma. Téllez wanted to recognize the power that is ever-present in the bodies and minds of women workers who create possibilities despite their circumstances, and who maneuver between space and place, languages and cultures as they center homes, both their own and others. She points us to Aparicio's role as a domestic worker to remind us of the silent but ever-present power of women. Téllez connects the interview with her own research and personal experiences growing up along the U.S./Mexico border in the cities of San Diego/Tijuana – where she was witness to the racial, gendered, and classed dynamics of power and exclusion.

Cover -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword by Ana Castillo -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Una Ofrenda para las Madres -- Part I. Separation, Migration, State Violence, and Detention -- 1. Gang-Affiliated Chicana Teen Momma Against Systemic Violence: A Testimonio Challenging Dominant Discourse Through Academic Bravery / Katherine Maldonado -- 2. Aquí Se Respira Lucha: A Mother-Daughter Herstory of Amor, Dolor, y Resistencia / Gabriela Corona Valencia -- 3. Coordinates: A Testimonio on Urban Migration, Mothering, and Teaching / Gretel H. Vera-Rosas -- 4. Fierce Mamas Rising: Navigating the Terrain of Motherhood as Formerly Incarcerated or Convicted Women / Grace Gámez -- 5. Herstories of Sobrevivencia: Chicanx/Latinx Community College Student-Mothers (Re)claiming and (Re)defining the Educational Pipeline and CalWORKS / Nereida Oliva and Hortencia Jiménez -- Part II. Chicana/Latina/Women of Color Mother-Activists -- 6. Ain't I a Mama?: A Black Revolutionary Mother in the Women's Rights Movement / Trina Greene Brown -- 7. Mothering the Academy: An Intersectional Approach to Deconstruct and Expose the Experiences of Mother-Scholars of Color in Higher Education / Monica Hernández-Johnson, Shahla Fayazpour, Sandra L. Candel, and Ravijot Singh -- 8. MALA: Mama Academic Liberadora Activista / Victoria Isabel Durán -- 9. Chicana M/other Alliances: Making Alianzas from Scratch / Cristina Herrera and Larissa Mercado -- 10. Madres en Lucha: Forging Motherhood as Political Movement Building Across Borders / Verónica N. Vélez -- Part III. Intergenerational Mothering -- 11. A Chicana Mother-Daughter Spiritual Praxis / Alma Itzé Flores -- 12. Enseñanzas de Mi Madre: Chicana Mother-Daughter Digital Conexiones / Andrea Garavito Martínez

In the current historical moment borders have taken on heightened material and symbolic significance, shaping identities and the social and political landscape. "Borders"—defined broadly to include territorial dividing lines as well as sociocultural boundaries—have become increasingly salient sites of struggle over social belonging and cultural and material resources. How do contemporary activists navigate and challenge these borders? What meanings do they ascribe to different social, cultural and political boundaries, and how do these meanings shape the strategies in which they engage? Moreover, how do these social movements confront internal borders based on the differences that emerge within social change initiatives?Border Politics, edited by Nancy A. Naples and Jennifer Bickham Mendez, explores these important questions through eleven carefully selected case studies situated in geographic contexts around the globe. By conceptualizing struggles over identity, social belonging and exclusion as extensions of border politics, the authors capture the complex ways in which geographic, cultural, and symbolic dividing lines are blurred and transcended, but also fortified and redrawn. This volume notably places right-wing and social justice initiatives in the same analytical frame to identify patterns that span the political spectrum. Border Politics offers a lens through which to understand borders as sites of diverse struggles, as well as the strategies and practices used by diverse social movements in today's globally interconnected world. Contributors: Phillip Ayoub, Renata Blumberg, Yvonne Braun, Moon Charania, Michael Dreiling, Jennifer Johnson, Jesse Klein, Andrej Kurnik, Sarah Maddison, Duncan McDuie-Ra, Jennifer Bickham Mendez, Nancy A. Naples, David Paternotte, Maple Razsa, Raphi Rechitsky, Kyle Rogers, Deana Rohlinger, Cristina Sanidad, Meera Sehgal, Tara Stamm, Michelle Téllez