The University of Arizona Press

Arturo J. Aldama was born in Mexico City and grew up in Sacramento, California. He serves as an associate professor and chair in the Department of Ethnic Studies at University of Colorado Boulder. He received PhD in ethnic studies from University of California, Berkeley, in 1996. He is the author of many publications, includingDisrupting Savagism: Intersecting Chicana/o, Mexican Immigrant and Native American Struggles for Representation, Decolonial Voices: Chicana and Chicano Cultural Studies in the 21st Century, Violence and the Body: Race, Gender and the State. He served as editor of Encyclopedia of Latina and Latino Popular Culture, Enduring Legacies: Colorado Ethnic Histories and Cultures, Performing the US Latina and Latino Borderlands, and Comparative Indigeneities: Towards a Hemispheric Perspective. He is co-editor for the book series Latinx Pop Cultures. His most recent book, Decolonizing Latinx Masculinities (with Frederick Luis Aldama), won runner-up to best nonfiction in Empowering Latino Futures.