“Querencia’s evocative prose and engagement with contemporary politics make it an accessible and timely reassessment of New Mexico’s historical consciousness, while interlocking geographies of race, gender, and colonialism grant it a broader relevance as a robust framework for borderlands history.”—Joseph Ukockis, Western Historical Quarterly
“Vanessa Fonseca-Chávez, Levi Romero, and Spencer R. Herrera bring together in Querencia fifteen Chicanx, Indigenous, and Genízaro writers and scholars whose work provides an insightful and well-considered approach to the ever-complex relationship between place, land, identity, and culture.”—Jorge A. Hernández Jr., New Mexico Historical Review
“Querencia’s strength is its ability to foster conversations among the various peoples that populate the Land of Enchantment so that stories are shared and multiple narratives can hold meaning at once.”—Daniel Arbino, Western American Literature
“Inspiring and thought-provoking.”—The Literary West Review
“Querencia provides us a language for expressing and making sense of deep-seated attachments to land and to the lived environment. This absorbing book opens up a discussion about place and belonging that is long overdue and sure to endure.”—John M. Nieto-Phillips, author of The Language of Blood: The Making of Spanish-American Identity in New Mexico, 1880s–1930s
“This collection is a thoughtful and unique approach to the complex relationship between place, land, identity, and culture.”—Adriana Nieto, associate professor in the Department of Chicana/o Studies at Metropolitan State University of Denver
