Description: Analyzes cultural materials that grapple with gender and blackness to revise traditional interpretations of Mexicanness.
Brief description: B. Christine Arce is Assistant Professor of Latin American Literature and Culture at the University of Miami.
Review Quotes:
"No one has written as lovingly and profusely on Mexican minorities as the wonderful B. Christine Arce. Here she writes about soldaderas, women of color, and camp followers-the courageous women who followed the troops during the Mexican Revolution. Without these women, soldiers would have deserted and the men would have run back home. Arce has not only captured the essence of Mexican women but also of Afro-Mexicans, who are typically forgotten and purposefully neglected." - Elena Poniatowska, author of Massacre in Mexico