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Nicole Guidotti-Hernández
Nicole M. Guidotti-Hernández is Associate Professor of Women’s Studies at the University of Arizona. She is also a faculty affiliate in Latin American Studies and the Department of English. She received her doctorate degree from Cornell University in English, with a graduate minor in Latina/o Studies in 2004. Her book titled Unspeakable Violence: Narratives of Citizenship Mourning and Loss in Chicana/o and U.S. Mexico National Imaginaries is forthcoming with Duke University Press (Spring 2011).
Her articles “Reading Violence, Making Chicana Subjectivities” appeared in Techno/futuros: Genealogies, Power, Desire (2007), edited by Nancy Raquel Mirabal and Agustin Lao-Montes, and “Dora the Explorer, Constructing “Latinidades” and the Politics of Global Citizenship” appeared in Latino Studies (Summer 2007), A former Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Center for Race, Politics and Culture at the University of Chicago. and William J. Fulbright Post-Doctoral Fellow the UNAM in Mexico City, Professor Guidotti-Hernández is at work on two new books: . ¡Santa Lucia! Contemporary Chicana and Latina Cultural Reinterpretations of
Saint Iconographies and Red Devils and Railroads: Race, Gender and Capitalism in the Transnational Nineteenth Century Mexico Borderlands.
Research and teaching interests: US/Third World Feminisms, Transnational Feminisms, Critical Race Studies, Chicana/o/Latina/o Studies, Borderlands History and American Studies.
Website: http://ws.web.arizona.edu/people/faculty/guidottihernandez.php
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Nicole Guidotti-Hernández's Posts
Old Tactics, New South
November 16, 2011 by Nicole Guidotti-Hernández · 1 Comment
By Nicole Guidotti-Hernandez On the opening day of Freedom University, located in a community center in Athens, Ga., students start trickling in 20 minutes before classes begin. The 28 eager collegians—three quarters of them women and the majority Latino/as—have come from Atlanta, Ackworth, Athens and other Georgia communities. Some are recent high-school graduates, others are [...]
Where Were the Chicana Feminists? Right Here
September 15, 2011 by Nicole Guidotti-Hernández · Leave a Comment
In my Chicana Feminist Theory classes, there’s one text I never fail to teach: Alma Garcia’s 1997 Chicana Feminist Thought: The Basic Historical Writings, a collection of newspaper articles, broadsides and essays by Chicana women activists of the 1960s and ’70s. Students identify with the sense of political urgency in these writings. Chicanas were struggling [...]
In Case Being Abused in Mississippi Isn’t Bad Enough …
March 15, 2011 by Nicole Guidotti-Hernández · 1 Comment
Since the Arizona state legislature passed the draconian anti-immigration bill SB 1070, other states seem to be in a race to catch up. Nebraska and Mississippi, with some of the nation’s smallest percentages of Latinos living within their borders, are nonetheless trying to pass some of the toughest anti-immigration laws we have seen to date, [...]
Bye, Bye, Affirmative Action–And Other Disturbing Arizona News
November 18, 2010 by Nicole Guidotti-Hernández · 2 Comments
Arizonans committed to social justice can sigh with relief over Democratic Rep. Raul Grijalva’s re-election to a fifth term in the U.S. House–something that conservatives fought tooth and nail because Grijalva supported a targeted economic boycott of the state over its draconian new immigration law. But that’s about the only good news out of Arizona. [...]
Why Does a 30-Something Feminist Care About Dora the Explorer?
August 17, 2010 by Nicole Guidotti-Hernández · 4 Comments
I can’t lie: I like Dora the Explorer, and I am 35 years old. My students bring me Dora paraphernalia and it adorns my office. Still, Dora and I have a complicated relationship. I’ve been following her career since I saw an ad about her in Latina Magazine in 1999, announcing the arrival of the [...]
For Latinas, A Fine Line Between Reproductive Justice and Eugenics
August 13, 2010 by Nicole Guidotti-Hernández · 7 Comments
The advent of the birth control pill and legalized abortion were watershed moments for the U.S. feminist movement. At the same time, these advances continue to be bound to the race, class and economic status of those who have access to reproductive technologies. U.S. Latinas and Chicanas, along with Native American and African American women, have [...]
More Violence Against the Women of Juarez
July 26, 2010 by Nicole Guidotti-Hernández · 4 Comments
Before I finished my Ph.D., I worked in the cosmetics industry for ten years as a makeup artist for Lauder Corp, which owns such prestige brands as Clinique, Estee Lauder, Bobbi Brown and MAC. The cosmetics industry is often a place where Chicanas and Latinas work their way through school, and I was one of [...]
In Arizona, Both Racial Exploitation and Resistance Run Deep
May 17, 2010 by Nicole Guidotti-Hernández · 7 Comments
On the heels of controversial immigration law SB 1070, which allows police to detain anyone suspected of being an illegal immigrant, Arizona’s legislature has passed a law targeting ethnic studies programs. The bill, which bans these programs because they supposedly teach “ethnic chauvinism”, represents another misguided effort by Arizona’s policymakers. As a professor of gender [...]
