FUTURE/PRESENT

Introduction / Roberta Uno 1
The Call / Jeff Chang 17
vestibular mantra (or radical virtuosities for a brave new dance) / taisha paggett 29
Part 1. Cultural Presence: Placekeeping and Belonging
Introduction / Daniela Alvarez 35
Aqui Estoy / Jose Ramirez 40
Beauty, Justice, and the Ritual of Performance / Patricia Berne & Nomy Lamm 42
An Accumulation of Things That Refuse to Be Discarded / Kiyan Williams 52
Counting Coup on the Compartmentalization of Indigenous-Made Rap Music / Talon Bazille Ducheneaux 54
Cultural Resiliency in the Face of Crisis: Learning from New Orleans / Carol Bebelle and Carol Zou 63
Collectively Directing the Current / Halima Afi Cassells 68
The New Eagle Creek Saloon / Sadie Barnette 74
Notes from Technotopia 3.0: On the "Creative City" Gone Wrong-An Antigentrification Philosophical Tantrum, 2012-2016 / Guillermo Gómez-Peña 76
"Building Temples for Tomorrow": Cultural Workers as Construction Crews / Alesia Montgomery 87
Invasive Species / Aaron McIntosh 94
Sunny and 150 Years of Placekeeping in Little Tokyo / Scott Oshima 96
Local Fruit Still Life / Daniel Andres Alcazar 102
Stage One: Establishing Community / Garrett McQueen 104
Red 40 / Jazmín Urrea 108
More Noes from the Performance Essay Los Giros De La Siguinte/the turns of the Next / Devin Kenny 110
Part 2. Dismantling Borders, Building Bridges: Migration and Diasporas
Introduction / Sarah Sophia Yanni 123
Mano Poderosa / Rosalie López 128
A Cosmos of Dis/Joints / Vinhay Keo 130
Cross-Border Citizens / Teddy Cruz and Fonna Foreman 136
Indian Alley, Where Art Is Healing / Pamela J. Peters 146
Vessels: A Conversation / Chanice Holmes, Mykia Jovan, Rebecca Mwase, and Mahalia Abéo Tibbs 151
Fence / Belise Nishimwe 158
A Touch of Otherness / Hayv Kahraman 160
Harmattan Haze / Njikeka Akunyili Crosby 166
Who Is the #EmergingUS? / Jose Antonio Vargas 168
Justice and Equity: We're Coming for It All / Christine Her 171
building bricks for communal healing / Silvi Naçi 176
We Never Needed Documents to Thrive /