Domino Renee Perez is an associate professor in the department of English and the Center for Mexican American Studies at UT Austin. She is the author of There Was a Woman: La Llorona from Folklore to Popular Culture and coeditor of Race and Cultural Practice in Popular Culture.

Fatherhood in the Borderlands is a true joy to read--a page turner! The autoethnographic, epistemic, and creative space of the author’s storytelling; the theorizing; and the deep and engaged readings of key film and literary texts in the Chicanx borderlands pantheon of creative/cultural production are all beautifully realized. Perez’s book will be a huge hit. - Arturo J. Aldama, University of Colorado Boulder, author of Disrupting Savagism: Intersecting Chicana/o, Mexican Immigrant, and Native American Struggles for Representation This book is personal and necessary. Domino Perez makes a disrupting gesture with Fatherhood in the Borderlands that is deliberate and thoughtful. It is a bold decision to make it a many-faceted work-there is no other book like Perez’s, with its amalgam of beautiful insights and tremendous depth. - Christopher González, Southern Methodist University, author of Permissible Narratives: The Promise of Latino/a Literature Fatherhood in the Borderlands is an important work for all scholars. Perez not only offers varied contributions to Mexican American studies but also presents an attitude towards scholarship that we should all consider adopting . . . In this sense, a slow approach to research is one that values personal investment and imaginative recreation. When our work ethic is too fast and too efficient, we drive by these possibilities. We forget the pleasure of slowing down to enjoy the view, and we forget the virtue looking back on the road that brought us here. (E3W) This resonates strongly with my own work on fathering, which has returned over the years to the work of British psychiatrist D. W. Winnicott, who argued for 'good enough' parenting that created facilitating environments (what he called "potential spaces") for children. Fatherhood in the Borderlands teaches me to create those kinds of environments for my children, and Perez's slow scholarship suggests that first I must do so for myself. (Journal of Latin American Geography) By combining autoethnography with literary and film analysis through a slow, purposeful way of thinking and writing, Perez has succeeded in rejecting 'the idea that the subjective or personal cannot be critical' (21). (MELUS)

• Preface: The Slow LowdownIntroduction: A Slow Approach to Fathers and Other FictionsPart I. Sourcing Authority Film: Ancianos not Abuelos: Making Space and Mediating Male PowerPersonal Narrative: “No, I Am Your Father”Literature: Fathers and Racialized Masculinities in Luis Alberto Urrea’s In Search of SnowPart II. Instrumentalizing Indigeneity Personal Narrative: Nobody Ever Said We Were AztecsFilm: Fatherhood, Chicanismo, and the Cultural Politics of Healing in La MissionLiterature: New Tribalism and Chicana/o Indigeneity in the Work of Gloria AnzaldÚaPart III. Fantasmas and FronterasLiterature: Fathers, Sons, and Other (Short) FictionsFilm: Meta and Mutant FathersPersonal Narrative: Family Fictions and Other Lies about the TruthConclusion: Fathers and FuturityParting ShotAcknowledgmentsNotesWorks Cited and ConsultedIndex

Domino Renee Perez is an associate professor in the department of English and the Center for Mexican American Studies at UT Austin. She is the author of There Was a Woman: La Llorona from Folklore to Popular Culture and coeditor of Race and Cultural Practice in Popular Culture.

Fatherhood in the Borderlands is a true joy to read--a page turner! The autoethnographic, epistemic, and creative space of the author’s storytelling; the theorizing; and the deep and engaged readings of key film and literary texts in the Chicanx borderlands pantheon of creative/cultural production are all beautifully realized. Perez’s book will be a huge hit. - Arturo J. Aldama, University of Colorado Boulder, author of Disrupting Savagism: Intersecting Chicana/o, Mexican Immigrant, and Native American Struggles for Representation This book is personal and necessary. Domino Perez makes a disrupting gesture with Fatherhood in the Borderlands that is deliberate and thoughtful. It is a bold decision to make it a many-faceted work-there is no other book like Perez’s, with its amalgam of beautiful insights and tremendous depth. - Christopher González, Southern Methodist University, author of Permissible Narratives: The Promise of Latino/a Literature Fatherhood in the Borderlands is an important work for all scholars. Perez not only offers varied contributions to Mexican American studies but also presents an attitude towards scholarship that we should all consider adopting . . . In this sense, a slow approach to research is one that values personal investment and imaginative recreation. When our work ethic is too fast and too efficient, we drive by these possibilities. We forget the pleasure of slowing down to enjoy the view, and we forget the virtue looking back on the road that brought us here. (E3W) This resonates strongly with my own work on fathering, which has returned over the years to the work of British psychiatrist D. W. Winnicott, who argued for 'good enough' parenting that created facilitating environments (what he called "potential spaces") for children. Fatherhood in the Borderlands teaches me to create those kinds of environments for my children, and Perez's slow scholarship suggests that first I must do so for myself. (Journal of Latin American Geography) By combining autoethnography with literary and film analysis through a slow, purposeful way of thinking and writing, Perez has succeeded in rejecting 'the idea that the subjective or personal cannot be critical' (21). (MELUS)

• Preface: The Slow LowdownIntroduction: A Slow Approach to Fathers and Other FictionsPart I. Sourcing Authority Film: Ancianos not Abuelos: Making Space and Mediating Male PowerPersonal Narrative: “No, I Am Your Father”Literature: Fathers and Racialized Masculinities in Luis Alberto Urrea’s In Search of SnowPart II. Instrumentalizing Indigeneity Personal Narrative: Nobody Ever Said We Were AztecsFilm: Fatherhood, Chicanismo, and the Cultural Politics of Healing in La MissionLiterature: New Tribalism and Chicana/o Indigeneity in the Work of Gloria AnzaldÚaPart III. Fantasmas and FronterasLiterature: Fathers, Sons, and Other (Short) FictionsFilm: Meta and Mutant FathersPersonal Narrative: Family Fictions and Other Lies about the TruthConclusion: Fathers and FuturityParting ShotAcknowledgmentsNotesWorks Cited and ConsultedIndex