Abstract
Abstract Charting the familial, emotive, and material histories located in and surrounding the notes taken at the death bed of Al Moreno, this paper explores the cultural memory of the keeper of the notes and niece of Moreno, Janelle Delgado. In defining the notes from her familial archive as treasure, I discuss Delgado as a cultural agent enacting a “methodology of care” where her acts are not frivolous but rather a humane counter act and narrative to the devaluing narratives of immigrant sexual excess and social deviancy so explicitly heightened during the Trump era. The paper asks: what happens to Mexican American identity when the histories of indigeneity and immigration status come to the forefront of familial and cultural memory during an ever-intensified xenophobic national discourse?
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