ABSTRACT
This chapter works toward defining a Mexican American Futurism. Mexican American futurism projects the culture, language, and beliefs of the here-rooted past and present into the future. There is no break, no abandoning of local lore for universal science. Instead, the two blend. But many of us Mexican American creators feel ourselves guided by tradition and identity to do more. In Nahuatl, the word is “mecachihua” (meh kah CHEE wah): cord-weaving. Adding strands to cultural mecayotl or shaping new connections between the huehcan behind and the huehcan ahead, on the loom of nican-axcan, the here-and-now.
