Bodies That Were Not Ours

Coco Fusco is the author of English is Broken Here: Notes on Cultural Fusion in the Americas (1995) and the editor of Corpus Delecti: Performance Art of the Americas (1999). She is an associate professor at the Tyler School of Art of Temple University.

'Fusco has contributed significantly and passionately to academic identity discourse, [this is] her most dynamic work ... uniquely provocative.' - Parachute'Fusco is a fine journalist.' - Nka'It is rare that one will discover such a global thinker such as Coco Fusco whose vision manages to encompass issues within contemporary art ... with a conscience of history and power.' - Ezine

• Section One Borne in Captivity; Chapter 1 The Bodies That Were Not Ours 1996; Chapter 2 Mexarcane International; Chapter 3 Better Yet When Dead; Chapter 4 The Man and the Myth; Chapter 5 Captain Shit and other Allegories of Black Stardom; Chapter 6 Wreaking Havoc on the Signified; Chapter 7 My Kind of Conversation; Chapter 8 The Unbearable Weightiness of Beings; Chapter 9 Votos (Vows); Section Two Other Perspectives; Chapter 10 Paquíta y Chata Se Arrebatan; Chapter 11 A pilot for a Chicano soap opera; Section Three Suspended in Transit; Chapter 12 Blacks in the Metropolis; Chapter 13 Rights of Passage; Chapter 14 Stuff; Chapter 15 BAD GRRL BRAVADO; Chapter 16 Hustling for Dollars; Chapter 17 Bridge Over Troubled Waters; Chapter 18 El Ultimo Deseo (The Last Wish); Chapter 19 El Evento Suspendido (The Postponed Event); Chapter 20 Mamas, Sistahs and Auntie Men; Chapter 21 Sudaca Enterprises; Chapter 22 Modernity Deferred; Chapter 23 At Your Service; Chapter 24 The Incredible Disappearing Woman; Section Four Other Perspectives; Chapter 25 Witness for the Prosecution, Jean Fisher; Chapter 26 Agency and Ambivalence;