Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Resisting Definitions of Chicana/o Visual Culture (Scott L. Baugh and Víctor A. Sorell) -- Part I -- (Re)Forming America's Libertad (Ester Hernández) -- Freedom and Gender in Ester Hernández's Libertad (Laura E. Pérez) -- A Conversation with Yolanda López and Víctor A. Sorell -- Thoughts on Who's the Illegal Pilgrim (René Yañez) -- Remapping America in Ester Hernández's Libertad and Yolanda López's Who's the Illegal Alien, Pilgrim? (Yvonne Yarbro-Bejarano) -- Part II -- San Diego Donkey Cart Reconsidered (David Avalos) -- A Remembered Dismemberment: David Avalos's San Diego Donkey Cart (Lynn Schuette) -- The Border Door: Complicating a Binary Space (Richard A. Lou) -- Through The Border Door (Patricio Chávez) -- Public Interventions and Social Disruptions: David Avalos's San Diego Donkey Cart and Richard Lou's The Border Door (Guisela Latorre) -- Part III -- Thoughts on Dos Pedros sin Llaves (Luis Tapia with Carmella Padilla) -- Thoughts on St. Peter Is Imprisoned (Nicholas Herrera with Sallie Gallegos) -- Pedro in the Pinta, Have You Seen My Keys?: Inside the Art of Luis Tapia and Nicholas Herrera (Tey Marianna Nunn) -- The Persistence of Chicana/o Art: Contemporary Santeros Reinterpret a Traditional Santo (Víctor A. Sorell) -- Part IV -- From Man on Fire (Luis Jiménez) -- Editorial Note (Scott L. Baugh and Víctor A. Sorell) -- Rearing Mustang, Razing Mesteño (Delilah Montoya) -- Kindred Spirits: On the Art and Life of Luis Jiménez (Ellen Landis) -- Occupying a Space Between Myth and Reality: The Sculpture of Luis Jiménez (Charles R. Loving) -- Part V -- A Conversation with Mel Casas and Rubén C. Cordova -- Brown Paper Report (Mel Casas and Con Safo) -- A Contingency Factor (Mel Casas and Con Safo) -- Getting the Big Picture: Political Themes in the Humanscapes of Mel Casas (Rubén C. Cordova).

Part VI -- Revisiting My Alamo (Kathy Vargas) -- Malinche y Pocahontas, Breaking Out of the Picture (Robert C. Buitrón) -- From "Many Wests" (Chon A. Noriega) -- Topographies of the Imaginary: Kathy Vargas's My Alamo and Robert C. Buitrón's El Corrido de Happy Trails (Jennifer A. González) -- Where Carnales Were, There Shall Unprodigal Daughters Be: Kathy Vargas's My Alamo and Robert C. Buitrón's Malinche y Pocahontas (Asta Kuusinen) -- Part VII -- A Conversation with Willie Varela and Scott L. Baugh -- In This Burning World, Willie Varela Resists (Kate Bonansinga) -- Sense and Sensibilities: Discontinuing Conventions in/for Willie Varela's Burning World (Scott L. Baugh) -- Part VIII -- Tracking the Monster: Thoughts on Señorita Extraviada (Lourdes Portillo) -- Between Anger and Love: The Presence of Señorita Extraviada (Bienvenida Matías) -- The Eye of Pain/El Ojo del Dolor (Claire Joysmith) -- Resisting the Violence of Values: Lourdes Portillo's Señorita Extraviada as Performative Utterance (Mónica F. Torres) -- Part IX -- From Yo Soy Chicano to Resurrection Blvd., Thirty Years of Struggle (Jesús Salvador Treviño) -- A Conversation with Dennis Leoni and Christine List -- De-Essentializing Chicanismo: Interethnic Cooperation in the Work of Jesús Salvador Treviño (Juan J. Alonzo) -- Editors and Contributors -- Index.