Diálogo, an Interdisciplinary Studies Journal

Volume 25, Issue 1, Spring 2022

Latines Building a Sense of Place in the Chicago Area and the Midwest
Guest editors: Carolina Sternberg and Rocío Ferreira

Articles

Latinx/e Midwest Archives: Fostering Querencia Using Digital Humanities Projects
by Elena Foulis and Stacey Alex

Somos un pueblo sin fronteras: Contending with INS Terror during Chicago’s Chicano Movement
by Myrna García

The Chingonas of Comedy: Latina Stand-Up and Testimonio in Chicago
by Julianna Loera-Wiggins

A Reflection on Puerto Rican and Latinx Relational Knowledge Making
by Lisa Ortiz-Guzmán

Reflections

Stomping Ground: Living Against Gentrification in Humboldt Park
by Jesse Mumm

“Thanks to San Juan de los Lagos”: The Evolution of La fé sanjuanera in Chicago
by Deborah Kanter

Interviews and Discussions

Aquí en Chicago: Piedras, Placemaking, and Politics in Pilsen
by Elena Gonzales, Delia Cosentino, and Ismael Cuevas Jr.

General Research Articles

Translating Boyle Heights: Radical Bilingualism and Spanish Dubbing of Chicanx Voices in Gentefied and Vida
by Roshawnda A. Derrick and Remy Attig

Objects of Study and Objetos teatrales in Roxana Aramburú and Patricia Suárez’s Damiana, una niña aché
by Sarah M. Misemer

About the Artist

Esperanza Gama, translated by Alejandra Delgadillo

Creative Writing

Dossier: Chicago en la poesía de poetas latines
Paseo Boricua Pugilist
Eduardo Arocho

Chicago’s Taste Festival
Marta Collazo

Murmullo
Jorge García de la Fe Cárdenas

Odiseos migrantes
Juana Iris Goergen

Chicago
Silvia Goldman

Delirio (en el “L” de Chicago)
León Leiva Gallardo

Decir de Silencio
Olivia Maciel

Poema de los barrios de Chicago
Miguel Marzana

#AceptamosNuevosPacientes
Rafael O. Calderón

XXIV
Fermina Ponce

USA 2014
Margarita Saona

[Untitled]
Luis Tubens

LifeINaLoop
Om Ulloa

Chicago
Crystal Vance Guerra

Vestida de pena
Johanny Vázquez Paz

La Waina
Febronio Zatarain

Bilingual Poems

Jackeline Caal
La mariposa de Jackeline / Jackeline’s Butterfly
Tinta negra / Black Ink
Xánath Caraza

Bilingual Prose

Ciudadanía/Citizenship
Xánath Caraza

Book/Film/Media Review

Building a Better Chicago: Race and Community Resistance to Urban Redevelopment by Teresa Irene Gonzales
reviewed by Aidé Hernández

Espejos en un café por Olivia Maciel Edelman
reviewed by Juana Iris Goergen

Aesthetics of Excess: The Art and Politics of Black and Latina Embodiment by Jillian Hernandez
reviewed by Aracely García-González

In Memoriam: Félix Masud-Piloto

Farewell to Félix Masud-Piloto, Dear Friend, Colleague, and Founder of Diálogo
Rocío Ferreira

Doctor Félix Roberto Masud-Piloto (1950–2023): Profesor Emérito—DePaul University, Departamento de Historia
Ana E. Schaposchnik

Volume 24, Issue 2, Fall 2021

Building Latina/o/x Studies: Case Samples from the Midwest
Guest editor: Lucía M. Suárez

Articles

A Shared Community: Chicano Studies at the University of Minnesota
by Dionicio Valdés

The Struggle to Fully Institutionalize Latinx Studies: the Detroit Latinx Community, Academic Activists, and Wayne State University, 1971–1998
by José Cuello

Latina/o Studies at the University of Michigan: Negotiating Inclusion and Exclusion in the Midwest
by Lawrence la Fountain-Stokes

US Latino/a Studies at Iowa State university: Diversity and the Work of Transformation
by Lucía M. Suárez

Ideas, Interests, and Institutions: The Institute for Latino Studies at Notre Dame
by Luis Ricardo Fraga

Twenty Years of Latino Studies at Indiana University: From Student Protest to Celebration of Latinx Cultures
by Sylvia Martinez

Latinx Studies in the Midwest: An Illegitimate Field
by Frances R. Aparicio

Interviews

University of Minnesota: Department of Chicano and Latino Studies, with Eden Torres and Karen Mary Davalos
by Lucía M. Suaréz

Wayne State University: Center for Latino/a and Latin American Studies, with Jorge Luis Chinea
by Lucía M. Suaréz

Northern Illinois University: Center for Latino and Latin American Studies, with Christina D. Abreu and Michael J. Gonzales
by Lucía M. Suaréz

About the Artist

Miriam Alarcón Avila

Book/Film/Media Review

Carved in Bone: A Henry Rios Novel by Michael Nava
reviewed by Jacqueline Jiang

Archiving an Epidemic: Art, AIDS, and the Queer Chicanx Avant-Garde by Robb Hernández
reviewed by Kevin Wilfredo Cruz Amaya

Intersectional Chicana Feminisms: Sitios y Lenguas by Aída Hurtado
reviewed by Heather Montes Ireland

Volume 24, Issue 1, Spring 2021

Latinx Detective and Noir Narratives
Guest editors: Michael Cucher, William Arce, and José Navarro

Articles

Investigating Gender and Sexuality

The Utopian Function of Queer Chicano Chutzpah: Imagining a Future Beyond HIV/AIDS in Michael Nava’s Henry Rios Novels
by Michael Cucher

Border Desires: Mapping Queer Worlds in the Work of Benjamin Alire Saénz
by Ruben Zecena

The Chicana Detective: Reimagining Archetypes and Chicana Histories in the Historical Mystery
by Crystal R. Pérez

To Live and Die in LA

A Browner Shade of Noir: Luis Valdez’s Zoot Suit as Decolonial Noir
by José Navarro

Latinx Noir: Reading The Tattooed Soldier as a Los Angeles Crime Story
by Annemarie Pérez

Murder in Military Masculinity in Lucha Corpi’s Detective Novel Eulogy for a Brown Angel
by William Arce

Detective Fiction beyond Borders

“All This Shit Was Also the Border”: Mediation and Generic Borders in Paco Ignacio Taibo II’s Detective Fiction
by Sean Cobb

How Do Detectives Survive Their Novels? Positionality, Survival, and Literary Universes in Chicana/o Detective Fiction and Mexican Narcoliterature
by Antonio Paniagua Guzmán

Interviews

Interview with Marcos McPeek Villatoro, Author of the Romilia Chacón Detective Series
by William Arce

The Art of Detection: An Interview with Carmen Amato, Author of the Award-Winning Emilia Cruz Mystery Series
by Shanell Contreras

A Conversation with Aya de León, Author of the Justice Hustler Series
by Michael Cucher

About the Artist

Salomón Huerta
Red and Brown Fresno: David Bacon

Creative Writing

“This Is Not How You Spell Serenity” (excerpt from the new Ivon Villa Mystery)
by Alicia Gaspar de Alba

Book/Film/Media Review

Unforgetting: A Memoir of Family, Migration, Gangs, and Revolution in the Americas by Roberto Lovato
reviewed by Sarah Bey West

Ricanness: Enduring Time in Anticolonial Performance by Sandra Ruiz
reviewed by Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes

Latinx Environmentalisms: Place, Justice, and the Decolonial edited by Sarah D. Wald, David J. Vásquez, Priscilla Solis Ybarra, and Sarah Jaquette Ray
reviewed by Grisel Y. Acosta

The INS on the Line: Making Immigration Law on the US-Mexico Border, 1917-1954 by S. Deborah Kang
reviewed by John Bradley

Volume 23, Issue 2, Fall 2020

Articles

Tiempos de crisis entre distopías y utopías
by Adriana Rodríguez Pérsico

Zona dark de Monteserrat Álvarez: “Lo que no se dijo” de la violencia política peruana y la fractura nacional
by Luis Fernando Chueca

Breaking the Silence: Telling Herstories on the Peruvian Post-Internal Armed Conflict
by Rocío Ferreira

Restos de violencia en la memoria del cuerpo: Lecturas alrededor de lon años 70 en El Diente de mamá y Entre almohadones de María Ledesma
by Paula Siganevich

¿Cómo exhibir un cuerpo que ya no habla? Beya y la potencia del arte y la literatura frente a la violencia corporal
by Marina Cecilia Rios

De la pampa virilizada al sur transformista: Un periplo de insurgencias en ficciones argentinas actuales
by Lucía De Leon

Distorsión de lo español en las pampas: Proyección hispanoamericana de la estrategia realista de Fogwill
by Juan Pablo Luppi

El ejercicio del poder punitivo, represivo y b´lico estatal en Colombia: Delimitacíon temporal y apuntes preliminares
by Alba L. Delgado

Ontological Migrations in José María Arguedas’s Tupac Amaru Kamaq Taytanchisman: The Triumph of Runa Migrants Against Colonial Violence in Lima
by Christian Elguera

General Research Articles

Love and Violence: El Salvador’s Revolution and the Specter of the Vietnam War in Demetria Martinez’s Mother Tongue
by William Arcé

Kiltro, película chilena de artes mariales: Orientalismos e identidades en tiempos de COVID-19
by Moisés Park

About the Artist

De la fragmentacíon a la integración: La compleja evolución de la vida interior y la expresión artística en la obra Martivón Galindo
by Isidra Mencos

Creative Writing

Poesía (Poetry):

“Como una mendiga”
“7 años de silencio 1983–1991”
“7 años + de silencio 1993–2000”
“pabellón 7A/sacrificio”
by Victoria Guerrero Peirano

“Acquí homenajeamos a la bellez peruana”
“A tu nombre le arrancaron los sueños”
by Roxana Crisólogo Correa

“trauma”
“crecimiento”
“contemplación”
“Smack Helados”
“acontecimiento”
by Silvia Goldman

“No hay cuerpo para todos esos huesos bajo esta piel que apenas ha logrado”
“Entre verdugos”
by Cecilia Podestá

“Mujeres a la conducción de trenes”
“Concentrate en el presente”
by Victoria Cóccaro

Narrativa (Narrative):

Leche negra
by Oswaldo Estrada

El pingüino andino
by Irma del Águila

Allá afuera
by Azucena Galettini

Preguntas sin respuestas: Apuntes sobre la enseñanza del Conflicto Armado en Perú
by Jesús Cossio

Book/Film/Media Review

Perhaps de Erika Almenara
reviewed by Rocío Ferreira

Volume 23, Issue 1, Spring 2020

Screening the Indigenous Experience in Contemporary Latin American Cinema
Guest editors: Manuel Medina and Bridget Franco

Articles

Peliculas en lenguas indigenas producidas en paises hispanohablantes: Ixcanul y El Abrazo de la serpiente
by Júlia González de Canales Carcereny

Mirada común a las visiones plurales: Los festivales de cine indigena en Brasil
by Luciana de Paula Freitas

Filmic Disciples and Indigenous Knowledges: The Pedagogical Imperative in El abrazo de la serpiente (Ciro Guerra, 2015)
by Charlotte Gleghorn

Descolonizando el texto visual: Bases para interpretar cuatro estéticas cinematográficas indigenistas ecuatorianas del siglo XXI
by Henry Tarco Carrera

Una discusíon sobre el racismo y el trabajo doméstico en Roma, de Alfonso Cuarón
by Tereza María Spyer Dulci y Alfredo Nava Sánchez

Thunder and Terror: Storm as Allegory in Tatiana Huezo’s Tempestad
by Patrick Ridge

Populating the Margins: Hope and Healing in Claudia Llosa’s La teta asustada
by Douglas J. Weatherford

Collective Disruptions of Bare Life in Marcela Zamora’s María en tierra de nadie
by Esteban E. Loustaunau

“My Camera is Not a Weapon”: Indigenous Erasure in Lucia Puenzo’s Wakolda
by Bridget Franco

Identidad y resistencia en A tus espaldas de Tito Jara
by Manuel Medina

About the Artist

Nicolás de Jesús

Book/Film/Media Reviews

From Filmmaker Warriors to Flash Drive Shamans: Indigenous Media Production and Engagement in Latin America, edited by Richard Pace
reviewed by Argelia González Hurtado

Manuscripts: All submissions are double-blind peer reviewed. Work may be submitted in Spanish or English, and Indigenous/Native language excerpts with translation to Spanish or English.

Author Anonymity: To maintain anonymity in the review process, please put names, affiliations, telephone numbers, e-mail address, and a preferred mailing address on Title Page. Citations to an author’s own works should be made in a way that does not compromise anonymity.

Title Page: Include author’s name, institutional affiliation, telephone numbers, e-mail address, and preferred mailing address. Include an Author’s Biography of 125 words or less.

Cover Letter: Include a statement that the manuscript is of original content and has not been previously published, nor under consideration elsewhere. Indicate whether the work is scholarship, commentary, a review, or creative writing.

Document Style and Formatting: Submit electronically in a clean MS Word (.doc or .docx) format. Do not justify margins, or apply automatic hyphenation of words, or add pagination, or insert headers/footers or line/page breaks. Use double-spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, with one inch-margins on all sides. Only one space after punctuations and “US” as adjective and full term when used as noun.

Scholarly Articles: Not to exceed 8,000 words including tables, endnotes and references. Include 6-8 keywords (in both English and Spanish) and an abstract of 100 words or less.

Commentary/Reflection Articles: Not to exceed 4,000 words including endnotes. Include an abstract, not exceeding 75 words, and 3-4 keywords (in both English and Spanish.

Interviews: Not to exceed 4,000 words.

Creative Writing: No more than 6 poems or 2 fiction/testimonio pieces per submission.

Book Reviews: Not to exceed 1,200 words including notes and references. Include complete book title, publisher, year of publication, page count and ISBN at opening, with reviewer’s name and affiliation at end of document.

Film/Media Reviews: Not to exceed 1,200 words including notes and references. Include name(s) of director(s), producer(s), distributor, and length of film at opening, with reviewer’s name and affiliation at end of document.

Endnotes & Text References: Follow the latest edition of MLA or APA style. Endnotes should be at end of article, numbered consecutively throughout the text by superscript numerals. Insert brief parenthetical acknowledgements in the manuscript wherever you incorporate another’s words, facts or ideas. A list of works cited, alphabetized according to authors’ last names, should be appended at the end of the article.

Illustrations: All images, charts, graphs and tables should be separate from the main article. Indicate approximate placement of each by using a clear break in the body of the article, inserting corresponding numbers as indicated on images, which must be in JPEG or TIFF format with 300 dpi. Provide captions and alt text for all images. Inclusion of visuals is not guaranteed.

Obtaining Permission to Reprint: Include a letter of permission for all borrowed illustrations, tables, figures, or other material. It is the author’s responsibility to obtain reprint permissions. Original images (photography, slides, and artwork) will be kept for up to three months from date of publication, then returned to the contributor.

Suggesting Reviewers: Authors may provide a list of up to three individuals (with institutional affiliations, postal and electronic addresses) whom they feel would be appropriate reviewers. The editors are not bound by these suggestions, but will respect requests for exclusion of specific reviewers.

Book & Film/Media Reviews: We are interested in reviews of works reflecting new trends, both criticism and creative works, on Latin American and US Latino topics that evaluate for scholarship and the teaching and learning process. We encourage submissions by scholars, graduate students and community members.

Commentary/Reflection Articles: All submissions are welcome. Articles are published at the discretion of editors.

Peer-Review Process:

General submissions of scholarly articles to Diálogo are initially reviewed by the Editor-in-Chief, who determines whether the manuscript will be sent to outside reviewers.

In the case of scholarly articles submitted for inclusion in a themed issue, the article will be initially reviewed by the Special Guest Editor(s) for the issue and the Editor-in-Chief.

Proposals for themed issues will be initially reviewed by the Diálogo Editorial Board.

If chosen for review, manuscripts are then evaluated in a double-blind process by at least two outside reviewers who are experts in relevant fields as selected by the Editorial Board. This peer-review process is designed to ensure that Diálogo publishes only original, accurate, and timely articles that contribute new knowledge, insights, or valuable perspectives to our discipline.

The Editor-in-Chief (and Special Guest Editors, in the case of themed issues) will communicate the results of the peer-review process to individual contributors.  Articles for which major revisions are recommended will be considered a second time by peer reviewers (and the Special Guest Editors, for themed issues) upon being resubmitted.

Evaluation

Reviewers play a vital role in ensuring the quality of papers published in the journal.

Questions addressed by reviewers include:

1. What is the stated purpose of this manuscript? Is it achieved?
2. Does the argument demonstrate an originality of approach, argument, or choice of subject matter?
3. Please comment on the soundness of the scholarship in the article. Do the conclusions drawn by the author follow logically from the evidence provided?  Is there sufficient evidence to support the conclusions?
4. Does the article demonstrate a familiarity with the relevant scholarship and theoretical frameworks of the field? Are the references current?
5. Please comment on the article’s style, organization, and clarity of expression.

Reviewers make one of four recommendations: accept, accept with minor revisions, accept with major revisions, and reject. Reviewers are asked to include comments explaining the recommendation to provide authors with suitable feedback to improve the article. Our aim is to create a constructive process that benefits the journal and the authors while respecting the time and efforts of all volunteer reviewers.

Should revisions be required of an author, authors must resubmit their revised articles with a detailed document summarizing the nature of the revisions that have been made and responding to questions and comments made by peer reviewers.

Review Timetable

We understand that the timeliness of decisions and publication is a major concern of authors. The typical scholarly manuscript is reviewed by the Editor-in-Chief (and, in the case of submissions for themed issues, the Special Guest Editor(s)) and sent out to two external reviewers within a couple of weeks after submission. Reviewers are expected to prepare their reviews within 30 days.

However, the realities of the peer-review process sometimes extend our timeline. You will receive a response as expeditiously as possible.

After receiving reviewers’ comments, authors are often asked to revise the manuscript in line with the reviewers’ and/or editors’ suggestions.  We expect authors to resubmit their revised article within 30 days.  Revisions should be accompanied by a detailed document responding to the questions and comments made by peer reviewers, as stated above.  Final versions of articles should also incorporate any copyediting changes requested by the Diálogo editor.

For general submissions, if the revised article is accepted for publication, the editor then determines the journal issue in which it will appear.

If you are seeking publication for a tenure packet, please bear in mind that publication is a lengthy process which involves many phases during which unexpected delays may occur.  If rapid publication is an issue for you, please let us know as soon as possible.

Authors can help speed the process by ensuring they follow the submission requirements and, if accepted, addressing the reviewers’ comments and any copyediting requirements in a timely fashion.

Send submissions to dialogo@depaul.edu

Diálogo
ISSN 1090-4972 · E-ISSN 2471-1039
Published semiannually (Spring, Fall)
Editor: Bill Johnson Gonzalez, DePaul University
Editorial Board: Available on the Editorial Board tab on the webpage listed above
Journal ownership: Center for Latino Research at DePaul University
Online access: Project Muse, UT Press

Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement

The editor(s) and editorial board of Diálogo are committed to the following:

• We will make our best efforts to ensure that our peer-review processes and editorial decisions are fair and unbiased, and that manuscripts are judged solely on their merits by individuals with appropriate levels of expertise in the subject area.
  • We have the right to reject a manuscript at any point in the process if, after an unbiased evaluation, it is the opinion of the editor(s) it does not align with the journal’s mission or editorial policies, is outside the scope of the interdisciplinary fields we cover, or would be in conflict with the journal’s legal requirements.
• We will treat submitted manuscripts as confidential documents and will not discuss them or share information about them with anyone outside the editorial staff, editorial board, potential reviewers, or the publisher.
• We expect transparency on the part of editors and reviewers regarding potential conflicts of interest and will assign manuscripts to individuals who are not expected to have such conflicts.
• We expect authors to help us uphold our ethical standards by
  • submitting only original works;
  • respecting the intellectual property rights of others;
  • adhering to the journal’s policies regarding simultaneous submissions;
  • acknowledging sources;
  • appropriately crediting all authors, other research participants, and funding sources;
  • disclosing any potential conflicts of interest; and
  • notifying the editors and/or publisher of any significant errors discovered after submission or publication.
• We will promptly investigate any credible allegation of unethical or illegal practices related to an article we have published. When warranted, we will issue corrections, retractions, and/or apologies, working with the author(s) as appropriate to find the best resolution.
• Concerns may be reported directly to the editor(s) or publisher by email at dialogo@depaul.edu

Editor:
Bill Johnson González
DePaul University
2352 N. Clifton Ave., Suite 130
Chicago, IL 60614
dialogo@depaul.edu

​​​​​​​​​Managing Editor:
Marcela L. Reales Visbal

​Editorial Consulting Board:
Gabriela Baeza Ventura, University of Houston
Norma E. Cantú, Trinity University
Rafael Chabrán, Whittier College
Hilda Chacón, Nazareth College
Karen Mary Davalos, University of Minnesota
Arlene Dávila, New York University
Gilda Ochoa, Pomona College
Kim Potowski, University of Illinois Chicago
Luis Escala Rabadán, Colegio de la Frontera Norte
María de los Ángeles Torres, University of Illinois Chicago

CLR-DePaul Advisory Board:​

Diálogo, an Interdisciplinary Studies Journal is indexed and/or abstracted in EBSCO, the MLA International Bibliography, and Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory. The full journal contents since volume 15 (when it became biannual) are available electronically through Project Muse. The earlier version of Diálogo, an Interdisciplinary Studies Journal (annual issues), volumes 1–14, are available in Open Access on Digital Commons at DePaul University.

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