Call for Submissions for an Edited Volume

Nuevo Mxico Emergent

(Re)Making Ethnography in the Heart of the US Latina/o Southwest
Michael L. Trujillo
Co-General Editor of the Contextos Book Series, SHRI and University of New Mexico Press.
Associate Professor of American Studies and Chicana/o Studies, University of New Mexico
Due Date January 30, 2015
We are seeking chapter length submissions for this edited book focused on ethnography and New Mexico
Latina/o communities.
Volume Abstract: The New Mexicans that the United States census now terms of Hispanic origin have
occupied a special place in the American ethnographic imagination for more than a century. Indeed, with
only the exception of Native Americans, Nuevomexicana/os are the most intensely represented US
subpopulation in anthropological and folklore discourse. Too often, that prior ethnography and the related
popular discourse depicted Nuevomexicana/os as relics of the past and living in regional/ethnic isolation In
contrast, this edited volume considers Nuevomexicana/os in (trans)national and interethnic/racial contexts,
agents of cultural, social, and political emergence and transformation, and emergent subjects. We invite
essays that consider the Nuevomexicana/o experience as (1) an object of ethnographic fascination; (2) a site
struggle where anthropologists and their subjects contest ethnographic practice; and, finally, (3) a
constitutive force where the academic field of ethnography and our future itself is (re)made. We consider
our work of particular significance because New Mexico---the majority minority state that possesses the
highest ratio of people of Hispanic origin of any US state---portends a possible future for US Latina/o politics
and a broader reformulation of race and American national identity. Appropriate topics of study include but
are not limited to urban Chicana/os in Albuquerque and Las Cruces barrios, LGBT struggles, sites of
interethnic/racial solidarity and contestation, resources conflicts, Latin American immigrant organizations as
well as the traditional Nuevomexicano communities that have long been objects of anthropological and
folkloric fascination. We encourage authors to draw on the disciplines of anthropology, folklore, Chicana/o
studies, and American studies and seek essays that have learned the lessons of anthropologys now
venerable crisis in representation; employ community-based research practices; postcolonial, feminist,
critical race, and queer theory; and other cutting-edge approaches. This volumes audience is students and
scholars interested in ethnography and American national and racial identity; the considerable regional
popular audience interested in Latina/o identity, culture and politics; and undergraduate students enrolled in
anthropology, Chicana/o studies, American studies, and Southwest studies classes. Potential chapters
explore the experiences of recent Mexican immigrants struggling to transform politics in the states capital
city, Chicana/o reformulations of agricultural pasts to contest global corporations and transform our
collective future, the insider/outsider dilemmas of Latina/o ethnographers in Nuevomexicana/o
communities, and the oppressive and liberating quality of ethnographic representations themselves.
Submissions should be 6,000 to 9,000 words and conform to the Chicago Manual of Style.
Submissions:
Please send inquiries to Michael Trujillo at
mltruj@unm.edu and electronic submission to
Claudia Mitchell at cmitch03@unm.edu
Michael L. Trujillo
American Studies Department MSC 03 21101
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131