ALANA DE HINOJOSA

ENDORSEMENTS

“‘Alana de Hinojosa’s ‘El Río Grande as Pedagogy’ is a wonderful example of settler states’ need to control nature and their deep investment in believing that they actually can. Alana de Hinojosa shows the agency of the river, including through its haunting. An invaluable contribution to Latinx Geographies."

— Laura Pulido, author of Environmentalism and Economic Justice: Two Chicano Struggles in the Southwest

“In ‘El Río Grande as Pedagogy,’ Alana de Hinojosa infuses the story of the Chamizal Land Dispute with meaning in ways that speak to issues of home, connection to place, subaltern peoples’ agency, and climate change. Thus, El Chamizal emerges as a site of memory and its history can serve as a usable past that empowers us in the present and allows us to envision a more emancipatory future. Her article should be required reading for anyone who lives in the El Paso-Cd. Juárez region, if not the nation.”

— Ernesto Chávez, author of "¡Mi Raza Primero!": Nationalism, Identity, and Insurgency in the Chicano Movement in Los Angeles, 1966-1978

“Alana de Hinojosa’s ‘El Río Grande as Pedagogy’ is a terrific article that meets at the intersection of history, memory, critical ethnic studies, especially Indigenous studies, and geography. Creatively using archives and oral histories, and written impeccably with the pen of a scholar and a poet, this is some of the most innovative work you will see!”

— Kyle Mays, author of An Afro Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States

“Alana de Hinojosa’s offering [in “El Rio Grande is Pedagogy”] is a spellbinding account that renders the land/water as the center of analysis. Hinojosa offers significant contributions to historical methods via periodization, oral history and archival and geographic engagement. Her work brings Castañeda and Anzaldúan analysis to the most recent critical scholarly engagements of settler colonial studies through anchoring land centrally in the critical interrogation of dispossession and overlapping settler colonial structures/historical processes. Importantly, this scholar also brings the burgeoning field of critical Latinx geographies into the conversation--in a way that resonates with Castañeda and Anzaldúa's work. We didn’t want this piece to end and found it to be the most innovative. It reminds us of some of the most compelling work of both Castañeda and Anzaldúa. We also notice that by focusing on the subject of the land/river, there is an innovative rupturing of the gender binary that reminds us of ways both Anzaldúa and Castañeda would move in the current scholarly era.”

— 2024 Antonia I. Castañeda Prize Review Committee, National Association of Chicana and Chicano Studies