Permissible Narratives: The Promise of Latino/a Literature
Mestizos Come Home! Making and Claiming Mexican American Identity

Bernadine Hernández is an assistant professor in the department of English at the University of New Mexico. Her forthcoming book is titled Border Bodies: Racialized Sexuality, Sexual Capital, and Violence in the Nineteenth Century Borderlands (Univ. of North Carolina Press, 2022). Her publications appear in Transgender Studies Quarterly, Women’s Studies Quarterly, Comparative Literature and Culture, among others. She specializes in transnational feminism and sexual economies of the US borderlands, along with American literary studies/empire from the mid-nineteenth century to the early twentieth, borderlands theory, and Chicana/Latina literature and sexualities.