Cover -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- Introduction: Toward a De-Colonial Performatics of the US Latina and Latino Borderlands -- ACTO ONE: PERFORMING EMANCIPATION: INNER WORK, PUBLIC ACTS -- 1 Body as Codex-ized Word / Cuerpo Como Palabra (en-)Códice-ado: Chicana/Indígena and Mexican Transnational Performative Indigeneities -- 2 Milongueando Macha Homoerotics: Dancing the Tango, Torta Style (a Performative Testimonio) -- 3 The Other Train That Derails Us: Performing Latina Anxiety Disorder in "The Night before Christmas" -- 4 The Art of Place: The Work of Diane Gamboa -- 5 Human Rights, Conditioned Choices, and Performance in Ana Castillo's Mixquihuala Letters -- 6 Decolonizing Gender Performativity: A Thesis for Emancipation in Early Chicana Feminist Thought (1969-1979) -- ACTO TWO: ETHNOGRAPHIES OF PERFORMANCE: THE RÍO GRANDE AND BEYOND -- 7 Performing Indigeneity in a South Texas Community: Los Matachines de la Santa Cruz -- 8 Re-Membering Chelo Silva: The Bolero in Chicana Perspective (Women's Bodies and Voices in Postrevolutionary Urbanization: The Bohemian, Urban, and Transnational) -- 9 Roland Barthes, Mojado, in Brownface: Chisme-laced Snapshots Documenting the Preposterous and Factlaced Claim That the Postmodern Was Born along the Borders of the Río Grande River -- 10 Decolonial Border Queers: Case Studies of Chicana/o Lesbians, Gay Men, and Transgender Folks in El Paso / Juárez -- 11 "Te Amo, Te Amo, Te Amo": Lorenzo Antonio and Sparx Performing Nuevo México Music -- 12 Sonic Geographies and Anti-Border Musics: "We Didn't Cross the Border, the Borders Crossed Us" -- 13 Lila Downs's Borderless Performance: Transculturation and Musical Communication -- ACTO THREE: NEPANTLA AESTHETICS IN THE TRANS/NACIONAL -- 14 El Macho: How the Women of Teatro Luna Became Men.

15 Suturing Las Ramblas to East LA: Transnational Performances of Josefina López's Real Women Have Curves -- 16 Loving Revolution: Same-Sex Marriage and Queer Resistance in Monica Palacios's Amor y Revolución -- 17 Is Ugly Betty a Real Woman? Representations of Chicana Femininity Inscribed as a Site of (Transformative) Difference -- 18 Indian Icon, Gay Macho: Felipe Rose of Village People -- ACTO FOUR: (DE)CRIMINALIZING BODIES: IRONIES OF PERFORMANCE -- 19 No Somos Criminales: Crossing Borders in Contemporary Latina and Latino Music -- 20 "Pelones y Matones": Chicano Cholos Perform for a Punitive Audience -- 21 Mexica Hip Hop: Male Expressive Culture -- 22 The Latino Comedy Project and Border Humor in Performance -- 23 (Re)Examining the Latin Lover: Screening Chicano/ Latino Sexualities -- 24 Rumba's Democratic Circle in the Age of Legal Simulacra -- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.