Ken Gonzales-Day

List of Figures

Director's Foreword - Bethany Montagano

Acknowledgments - Amelia Jones

Introduction: Ken Gonzales-Day's "Nevermade" and the Embodied Reworking of Discourse - Amelia Jones







Section 1: Finding a Path (Early Work)

Introduction to Section 1 - Amelia Jones



1. Finding a Path: Amelia Jones in Dialogue with Ken Gonzales-Day



2. Ken Gonzales-Day Narrative Timeline - Nadia Estrada and Yumu Huo (with Amelia Jones)







Section 2: Rethinking History (Queering/Decolonizing the Family)

Introduction to Section 2 - Amelia Jones



3. Excerpts from Ramoncita Gonzales [aka Ken Gonzales-Day], The Bone Grass Boy: The Secret Banks of the Conejos River (1982) (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1996)



4. The Archive and the Nevermade: Queer, Trans, and Two-Spirit Histories in Ken Gonzales-Day's Bone-Grass Boy - Ren Heintz





Section 3: Rethinking History (Archives)

Introduction to Section 3 - Amelia Jones



5. The Space Between: The Lynching Project - Ken Gonzales-Day



6. Spectacularizing the Sacrifice: A Reading of the Erased Lynching Series - Cyrielle Leveque



7. Searching for a Brown Commons: Racial Affect and Re-Enactment in Ken Gonzales-Day's Lynching Projects - Mary K. Coffey





Section 4: Collecting Race (Skin/Museums)

Introduction to Section 4 - Amelia Jones



8. Race, Whiteness, and Absence in Studio Practice - Ken Gonzales-Day



9. Profiled - Ken Gonzales-Day



10. Different Measures: From Xipe Totec to Facial Recognition to System Overload - Ken Gonzales-Day



11. Metropolitan Division: Ken Gonzales-Day between the Getty Museum and the LAPD - Jason Hill



12. The Profiled Series and Hemispheric Racial Formations - Tatiana Flores







Section 5: Forging Community (Publics)

Introduction to Section 5 - Amelia Jones



13. Bringing Art Out of the Museum - Ken Gonzales-Day



14. Art as Propaganda: Advertising for Racial Equality in Ken Gonzales-Day's Public Art - Ana Briz



15. Stepping into Memory: Ken Gonzales-Day and the Alternative Los Angeles - Nadia Estrada







Section 6: Imaging Bodies (Portraits)

Introduction to Section 6 - Amelia Jones



16. Queer-ish: Photography and the LGBTQ+ Imaginary - Ken Gonzales-Day



17. Of Life as a Menace and a Shield: The Memento Mori and Pandemic Portrait Series - Taina Caragol



18. Ken Gonzales-Day's Embodied Brown Historicity: Amelia Jones in Dialogue with Cecilia Fajardo-Hill







Section 7: Redrawing Boundaries (Land)

Introduction to Section 7 - Amelia Jones



19. Another Land / Decolonial Drawings - Ken Gonzales-Day



20. Engaging an Elder and Tracing the Past: Ken Gonzales-Day in Dialogue with Steve Pratt







Contributor Biographies

Ken Gonzales-Day Works

Index