Description: Shows how communities across the Americas transform their grief over murdered and missing trans and non-trans women, girls, and two-spirit people into powerful social movements that challenge state violence and demand justice.
Brief description: Lydia Huerta Moreno is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Gender, Race, and Identity at the University of Nevada, Reno. She is coeditor, with Christina Sanchez Volatier, of Introduction to Latinx Studies: A Social Science and Cultural Studies Reader.
Review Quotes:
"Mourning and Mobilization in the Americas offers one of the most formidable accounts of the relationship between affect and movement-building. It's also a page-turner. Huerta Moreno is a true scholar of the Americas, moving fluidly between English, Spanish, and Portuguese and seamlessly integrating her personal engagement with several of the book's subjects." - Karma R. Chávez, author of The Borders of AIDS: Race, Quarantine, and Resistance
"This book expertly models cutting-edge interdisciplinary research while continually centering the wellness and liberation of local communities. To my knowledge the first academic book to include transgender and gender-diverse women and femmes in its focus on state-endorsed gender-based violence, Mourning and Mobilization in the Americas speaks to our contemporary need for trans-affirming analytics and shows how different people organize under the banner of women and femmes beyond a white Western focus on presumed biology. Huerta Moreno's poignant cross-regional, comparative analysis moves from critique to community-building. Not only does the book make significant intellectual contributions to gender studies, rhetoric, and other fields but it also offers a humanistic example of how to do community-based critical research." - Lore/tta LeMaster, Arizona State University