Preface : Our process as subjects within diasporic communities and fields
Introduction : U.S. Central American (un)belongings / Karina O. Alvarado, Alicia Ivonne Estrada, and Ester E. Hernández
Part I. Generational oral histories of education, and gendered labor and resistance literature. Salvadoran immigrant acts and migration to San Francisco (circa 1960s and '70s) / Ana Patricia Rodríguez ; Hard work alone is not enough : blocked mobility for Salvadoran women in the United States / Leisy Abrego ; "Obstinate transnational memories" : how oral histories shape Salvadoran-Mexican subjectivities / Steven Osuna ; A gynealogy of Cigua resistance : la Ciguanaba, Prudencia Ayala, and Leticia Hernández-Linares in conversation / Karina O. Alvarado
Part II. Diversity and memory : creating counterhegemonic spaces and practices in public spaces. Performing centralaméricanismo : isthmian identities at the COFECA Independence Day parade / Maritza E. Cárdenas ; Remembering through cultural interventions : mapping Central Americans in L.A. public spaces / Ester E. Hernández ; (Re)Claiming public space and place : Maya community formation in Westlake/MacArthur Park / Alicia Ivonne Estrada ; Weavings that rupture : the possibility of contesting settler colonialism through cultural retention among the Maya diaspora / Floridalma Boj Lopez ; Illegal chickens : the art of branding poultry in Central American Los Angeles / Yajaira Padilla ; Critical reflections on U.S. Central American studies for the future / Karina O. Alvarado, Alicia Ivonne Estrada, and Ester E. Hernández.
