"This collection highlights how meXicana scholars center their community-engaged research to reflect on important regional themes in the U.S. Southwest and the U.S. Mexico Borderlands. Divided into five sections, authors explore what it means to cultivate spaces of belonging, navigate language policies, and explore and excavate silences in various spaces, among other important themes, with a particular emphasis on Arizona in each section"-- Provided by publisher.

"Reflecting on the concept as both a methodological and theoretical framework, this collection embodies the challenges and resiliency of mothering along both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border. More than thirty contributors examine how mothering is shaped by the geopolitics of border zones, which also transcends biological, sociological, or cultural and gendered tropes regarding ideas of motherhood, who can mother, and what mothering personifies"-- Provided by publisher.

"The Border Reader is an anthology which gathers previously published foundational works of humanities and interpretive social science scholarship on the U.S.-Mexico border. Edited by anthropologist Gilberto Rosas and American and Latinx studies scholar Mireya Roza, this Reader brings together essays that mobilize feminist, queer, Indigenous and critical ethnic studies perspectives to theorize the border region as a site of epistemic rupture and knowledge production"--