Emma Pérez
Biographic Data
| ID | 3649568 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Emma Pérez |
| GIVEN NAMES | Emma |
| FAMILY NAME | Pérez |
| SIGNATURE | PEREZ E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Arizona |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Grapes of Conquest
Presenting an “alternative narrative” of California history, Ornelas-Higdon’s study will make anyone who enjoys a glass of California wine think about the hands that picked the grapes, the feet that pressed them, and the historical roots, literal and figurative, of successive waves of conquest and racialization projects in the region (201). Ornelas-Higdon argues that California’s early wine industry “reshapes our understandings of how conquest pl…
Roots of Cultural Resilience
Contrary to the deficit, leaky pipe perspective, this study applied an asset-based framework that argues resilience is a cultural asset that motivates and contributes to success. The purpose of this study was to examine how Latinx students applied resilience contexts toward navigating the medical school pipeline. A qualitative, case study design was utilized to explore the medical school pipeline experiences of five Latinx medical students, atten…
No captives, no victims
No captives, no victims." Journal of Lesbian Studies, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2 Additional informationNotes on contributorsEmma PérezDr. Emma Pérez is a Research Social Scientist at University of Arizona’s Southwest Center as well as a Professor in the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies. Pérez has published fiction, essays, and the history monograph, The Decolonial Imaginary: Writing Chicanas into History. Her first novel, Gul…
Taking Sides
Is there an option to oppose without automatically participating in the opposed? This volume explores different perspectives on dissent, understanding practices, cultures, and theories of resistance, dispute, and opposition as inherently participative. It discusses aspects of the body as a political instance, the identity and subjectivity building of individuals and groups, (micro-)practices of dissent, and theories of critique from different dis…
Letter to Gloria Anzaldúa
Research Article| September 01 2020 Letter to Gloria Anzaldúa Emma Pérez Emma Pérez Emma Pérez is a research social scientist at the Southwest Center at the University of Arizona and a professor in the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies. Pérez has published fiction, essays, and the history monograph The Decolonial Imaginary: Writing Chicanas into History (1999). Her fiction includes Gulf Dreams (1996), Forgetting the Alamo, or, Blood Memory…
The Imaginary as Will to Feel
Research Article| March 01 2020 The Imaginary as Will to Feel: Beyond the Decolonial Turn in Chicanx/Latinx Feminism Emma Pérez Emma Pérez Emma Pérez earned a PhD in history from UCLA. Currently she works at the University of Arizona as a research social scientist at the Southwest Center and is a professor in the Department of Gender/Women’s Studies. Pérez published the history monograph The Decolonial Imaginary: Writing Chicanas into History in …
An Epistolary Love Poem to Sor Juanx
Research Article| September 01 2019 An Epistolary Love Poem to Sor Juanx: Emma Pérez Emma Pérez Emma Pérez is a research social scientist at the Southwest Center at the University of Arizona and a professor in the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies. Pérez has published fiction and essays and the history monograph The Decolonial Imaginary: Writing Chicanas into History (1999). Her fiction includes Gulf Dreams (1996), Forgetting the Alamo, or…
Our Lady of Controversy
Gloria Anzald a
A version of this paper was initially presented at the Gloria Anzaldua Memorial held at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, October 29, 2004. I'd also like to thank Maria Cotera, Larry La Fountain-Stokes, Ruth Behar, Maria Montoya, Nicol Partida, and Alexandra Stern for being such generous hosts
Queering the Borderlands
L'A. evoque les imaginaires decoloniaux a travers un regard queer et un roman historique, centres sur le desir lesbien et l'intentionnalite de l'acteur. Sa critique d'une historiographie colonialiste et heteronormative suggere de nouvelles methodologies et theories pour desidentifier, desencastrer et decoloniser l'histoire des territoires et des corps chicanas/os de la frontiere. Pour decoloniser l'histoire et l'imagination historique, il faut de…
So Far from God, So Close to the United States
Research Article| November 01 2003 So Far from God, So Close to the United States: A Call for Action by U.S. Authorities Emma Pérez Emma Pérez Emma Pérez, associate professor of History at the University of Texas, El Paso, specializes in Chicana/Mexicana history, queer history and theory, feminist theory, and creative writing. She is currently writing a historical novel called Blood Memory, or Forgetting the Alamo. Search for other works by this …
The Decolonial Imaginary
Journal Article The Decolonial Imaginary: Writing Chicanas into History. By Emma Perez. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999. xx, 181 pp. Cloth, $35.00, ISBN 0-253-33504-3. Paper, $16.95, ISBN 0-253-21283-9.) Get access Edwina Barvosa-Carter Edwina Barvosa-Carter University of California, Santa Barbara, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 88, Issue 1, June…
The decolonial imaginary
Translated Woman
So Far from God, So Close to the United States
Research Article| November 01 2003 So Far from God, So Close to the United States: A Call for Action by U.S. Authorities Emma Pérez Emma Pérez Emma Pérez, associate professor of History at the University of Texas, El Paso, specializes in Chicana/Mexicana history, queer history and theory, feminist theory, and creative writing. She is currently writing a historical novel called Blood Memory, or Forgetting the Alamo. Search for other works by this …
Translated Woman
Translated Woman
The decolonial imaginary
The Decolonial Imaginary
Journal Article The Decolonial Imaginary: Writing Chicanas into History. By Emma Perez. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999. xx, 181 pp. Cloth, $35.00, ISBN 0-253-33504-3. Paper, $16.95, ISBN 0-253-21283-9.) Get access Edwina Barvosa-Carter Edwina Barvosa-Carter University of California, Santa Barbara, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 88, Issue 1, June…
So Far from God, So Close to the United States
Research Article| November 01 2003 So Far from God, So Close to the United States: A Call for Action by U.S. Authorities Emma Pérez Emma Pérez Emma Pérez, associate professor of History at the University of Texas, El Paso, specializes in Chicana/Mexicana history, queer history and theory, feminist theory, and creative writing. She is currently writing a historical novel called Blood Memory, or Forgetting the Alamo. Search for other works by this …
Queering the Borderlands
L'A. evoque les imaginaires decoloniaux a travers un regard queer et un roman historique, centres sur le desir lesbien et l'intentionnalite de l'acteur. Sa critique d'une historiographie colonialiste et heteronormative suggere de nouvelles methodologies et theories pour desidentifier, desencastrer et decoloniser l'histoire des territoires et des corps chicanas/os de la frontiere. Pour decoloniser l'histoire et l'imagination historique, il faut de…
Gloria Anzald a
A version of this paper was initially presented at the Gloria Anzaldua Memorial held at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, October 29, 2004. I'd also like to thank Maria Cotera, Larry La Fountain-Stokes, Ruth Behar, Maria Montoya, Nicol Partida, and Alexandra Stern for being such generous hosts
Our Lady of Controversy
An Epistolary Love Poem to Sor Juanx
Research Article| September 01 2019 An Epistolary Love Poem to Sor Juanx: Emma Pérez Emma Pérez Emma Pérez is a research social scientist at the Southwest Center at the University of Arizona and a professor in the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies. Pérez has published fiction and essays and the history monograph The Decolonial Imaginary: Writing Chicanas into History (1999). Her fiction includes Gulf Dreams (1996), Forgetting the Alamo, or…
Letter to Gloria Anzaldúa
Research Article| September 01 2020 Letter to Gloria Anzaldúa Emma Pérez Emma Pérez Emma Pérez is a research social scientist at the Southwest Center at the University of Arizona and a professor in the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies. Pérez has published fiction, essays, and the history monograph The Decolonial Imaginary: Writing Chicanas into History (1999). Her fiction includes Gulf Dreams (1996), Forgetting the Alamo, or, Blood Memory…
The Imaginary as Will to Feel
Research Article| March 01 2020 The Imaginary as Will to Feel: Beyond the Decolonial Turn in Chicanx/Latinx Feminism Emma Pérez Emma Pérez Emma Pérez earned a PhD in history from UCLA. Currently she works at the University of Arizona as a research social scientist at the Southwest Center and is a professor in the Department of Gender/Women’s Studies. Pérez published the history monograph The Decolonial Imaginary: Writing Chicanas into History in …
Taking Sides
Is there an option to oppose without automatically participating in the opposed? This volume explores different perspectives on dissent, understanding practices, cultures, and theories of resistance, dispute, and opposition as inherently participative. It discusses aspects of the body as a political instance, the identity and subjectivity building of individuals and groups, (micro-)practices of dissent, and theories of critique from different dis…
Roots of Cultural Resilience
Contrary to the deficit, leaky pipe perspective, this study applied an asset-based framework that argues resilience is a cultural asset that motivates and contributes to success. The purpose of this study was to examine how Latinx students applied resilience contexts toward navigating the medical school pipeline. A qualitative, case study design was utilized to explore the medical school pipeline experiences of five Latinx medical students, atten…
No captives, no victims
No captives, no victims." Journal of Lesbian Studies, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2 Additional informationNotes on contributorsEmma PérezDr. Emma Pérez is a Research Social Scientist at University of Arizona’s Southwest Center as well as a Professor in the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies. Pérez has published fiction, essays, and the history monograph, The Decolonial Imaginary: Writing Chicanas into History. Her first novel, Gul…
The Grapes of Conquest
Presenting an “alternative narrative” of California history, Ornelas-Higdon’s study will make anyone who enjoys a glass of California wine think about the hands that picked the grapes, the feet that pressed them, and the historical roots, literal and figurative, of successive waves of conquest and racialization projects in the region (201). Ornelas-Higdon argues that California’s early wine industry “reshapes our understandings of how conquest pl…
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