Ricardo A. Bracho is Abrams Artist in Residence at the University of Pennsylvania.

"Bracho is one of the most important and innovative US playwrights of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The themes that Bracho takes on in his plays are crucial for understanding racism, colonialism, decolonization, contemporary politics, and liberation for all peoples. These plays constitute a fantastic experimentation in aesthetic form as well. This collection is an outstanding work of dramaturgy.”—María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo, author of Indian Given: Racial Geographies across Mexico and the United States“Puto is the House of Bracho we all need to belong to. Ricardo Bracho’s collection of work and reflective writings by his long time carnalas takes us on a joyride filled with house music that refuses the romanticism that art practice is activism. Instead, Puto offers us writing filled with contradictions, exhilaration, mess, and excess that ‘gives us another way.’”—Deborah R. Vargas, Associate Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Yale University

• Foreword / Cherríe Moraga xiAuthor’s Acknowledgments xvEditors’ Acknowledgments xixIntroduction / Jennifer S. Ponce de León, Richard T. Rodríguez, and Randall Williams 1The Sweetest Hangover 23El Santo Joto 67Ni Madre 73Mexican Psychotic 81Appetites I Have Inherited 93Sissy 99Puto 139A Black and A Brown 181“I Don’t Do Plot, I Do Ideology”: Interview with Ricardo A. Bracho / Jennifer S. Ponce de León 185Afterword / Juana María Rodríguez 207Bibliography 211Contributors 215

Ricardo A. Bracho is Abrams Artist in Residence at the University of Pennsylvania.

"Bracho is one of the most important and innovative US playwrights of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The themes that Bracho takes on in his plays are crucial for understanding racism, colonialism, decolonization, contemporary politics, and liberation for all peoples. These plays constitute a fantastic experimentation in aesthetic form as well. This collection is an outstanding work of dramaturgy.”—María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo, author of Indian Given: Racial Geographies across Mexico and the United States“Puto is the House of Bracho we all need to belong to. Ricardo Bracho’s collection of work and reflective writings by his long time carnalas takes us on a joyride filled with house music that refuses the romanticism that art practice is activism. Instead, Puto offers us writing filled with contradictions, exhilaration, mess, and excess that ‘gives us another way.’”—Deborah R. Vargas, Associate Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Yale University

• Foreword / Cherríe Moraga xiAuthor’s Acknowledgments xvEditors’ Acknowledgments xixIntroduction / Jennifer S. Ponce de León, Richard T. Rodríguez, and Randall Williams 1The Sweetest Hangover 23El Santo Joto 67Ni Madre 73Mexican Psychotic 81Appetites I Have Inherited 93Sissy 99Puto 139A Black and A Brown 181“I Don’t Do Plot, I Do Ideology”: Interview with Ricardo A. Bracho / Jennifer S. Ponce de León 185Afterword / Juana María Rodríguez 207Bibliography 211Contributors 215

Ricardo A. Bracho is Abrams Artist in Residence at the University of Pennsylvania.

"Bracho is one of the most important and innovative US playwrights of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The themes that Bracho takes on in his plays are crucial for understanding racism, colonialism, decolonization, contemporary politics, and liberation for all peoples. These plays constitute a fantastic experimentation in aesthetic form as well. This collection is an outstanding work of dramaturgy.”—María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo, author of Indian Given: Racial Geographies across Mexico and the United States“Puto is the House of Bracho we all need to belong to. Ricardo Bracho’s collection of work and reflective writings by his long time carnalas takes us on a joyride filled with house music that refuses the romanticism that art practice is activism. Instead, Puto offers us writing filled with contradictions, exhilaration, mess, and excess that ‘gives us another way.’”—Deborah R. Vargas, Associate Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Yale University

• Foreword / Cherríe Moraga xiAuthor’s Acknowledgments xvEditors’ Acknowledgments xixIntroduction / Jennifer S. Ponce de León, Richard T. Rodríguez, and Randall Williams 1The Sweetest Hangover 23El Santo Joto 67Ni Madre 73Mexican Psychotic 81Appetites I Have Inherited 93Sissy 99Puto 139A Black and A Brown 181“I Don’t Do Plot, I Do Ideology”: Interview with Ricardo A. Bracho / Jennifer S. Ponce de León 185Afterword / Juana María Rodríguez 207Bibliography 211Contributors 215