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New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2007. Brings together in one volume a diverse range of original essays by established and emerging scholars in the field of Latina/o Studies.
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A Companion to Latina/o Studies is a collection of 40 original essays written by leading scholars in the field, dedicated to exploring the question of what 'Latino/a' is.
Brings together in one volume a diverse range of original essays by established and emerging scholars in the field of Latina/o Studies
Offers a timely reference to the issues, topics, and approaches to the study of US Latinos - now the largest minority population in the United States
Explores the depth of creative scholarship in this field, including theories of latinisimo, immigration, political and economic perspectives, education, race/class/gender and sexuality, language, and religion
Considers areas of broader concern, including history, identity, public representations, cultural expression and racialization (including African and Native American heritage).
Contents
Notes on Contributors ix
Editors' Foreword xxi
Acknowledgments xxvii
Part I Latinidades
1 Marks of the Chicana Corpus: An Intervention in the Universality Debate 3
Helena María Viramontes
2 The New Latin Nation: Immigration and the Hispanic Population of the United States 15
Alejandro Portes
3 "Dime con quién hablas, y te diré quién eres": Linguistic (In)security and Latina/o Unity 25
Ana Celia Zentella
4 (Re)constructing Latinidad: The Challenge of Latina/o Studies 39
Frances R. Aparicio
5 The Name Game: Locating Latinas/os, Latins, and Latin Americans in the US Popular Music Landscape 49
Deborah Pacini Hernández
6 Cuando Dios y Usted Quiere: Latina/o Studies Between Religious Powers and Social Thought 60
David Carrasco
7 Latina/o Cultural Expressions: A View of US Society Through the Eyes of the Subaltern 77
Edna Acosta-Belén
Part II Actos: Critical Practices
8 José Limón, the Devil and the Dance 93
José E. Limón
9 The Everyday Civil War: Migrant Labor, Capital, and Latina/o Studies 105
Nicholas De Genova
10 The Powers of Women's Words: Oral Tradition and Performance Art 116
Yolanda Broyles-González
11 Language and Other Lethal Weapons: Cultural Politics and the Rites of Children as Translators of Culture 126
Antonia I. Castañeda
12 Looking for Papi: Longing and Desire Among Chicano Gay Men 138
Tomás Almaguer
13 On Becoming 151
Nelly Rosario
Part III Vidas: Herstories/Histories
14 Of Heretics and Interlopers 159
Arturo Madrid
15 Coloring Class: Racial Constructions in Twentieth-Century Chicana/o Historiography 169
Vicki L. Ruiz
16 "El Louie" by José Montoya: An Appreciation 180
Raúl Villa
17 Preservation Matters: Research, Community, and the Archive 185
Chon A. Noriega
18 The Star in My Compass 194
Virginia Sánchez Korrol
19 "Y Que Pasara Con Jovenes Como Miguel Fernández?" Education, Immigration, and the Future of Latinas/os in the United States 202
Pedro A. Noguera
Part IV En la lucha: Sites of Struggle
20 Latinas/os and the Elusive Quest for Equal Education 217
Sonia Nieto
21 The Moral Monster: Hispanics Recasting Honor and Respectability Behind Bars 229
Patricia Fernández-Kelly
22 A Rebellious Philosophy Born in East LA 240
Gerald P. López
23 Latinas/os at the Threshold of the Information Age: Telecommunications Challenges and Opportunities 251
Jorge Reina Schement
24 Conceptualizing the Latina Experience in Care Work 264
Mary Romero
25 Surviving AIDS in an Uneven World: Latina/o Studies for a Brown Epidemic 276
Carlos Ulises Decena
26 Post-Movimiento: The Contemporary (Re)Generation of Chicana(o) Art 289
Tomás Ybarra-Frausto
27 "God Bless the Law, He Is White": Legal, Local, and International Politics of Latina/o and Black Desegregation Cases in Post-World War II California and Texas 297
Neil Foley
Part V Mestizaje: Revisiting Race
28 Latinas/os and the Mestizo Racial Heritage of Mexican Americans 313
Martha Menchaca
29 Looking at that Middle Ground: Racial Mixing as Panacea? 325
Miriam Jiménez Román
30 Color Matters: Latina/o Racial Identities and Life Chances 337
Ginetta E. B. Candelario
31 Between Blackness and Latinidad in the Hip Hop Zone 351
Raquel Z. Rivera
32 Afro-Latinas/os and the Racial Wall 363
Silvio Torres-Saillant
33 The (W)rite to Remember: Indígena as Scribe 2004-5 (an excerpt) 376
Cherríe Moraga
Part VI Identidades: Producing Subjectivities
34 "How I Learned To Love Salseros When My Hair Was A Mess" by Edwin Torres: A Comment 393
Edwin Torres
35 Reflections on Thirty Years of Critical Practice in Chicana/o Cultural Studies 397
Yvonne Yarbro-Bejarano
36 Social Aesthetics and the Transnational Imaginary 406
Ramón Saldívar
37 The Taíno Identity Movement Among Caribbean Latinas/os in the United States 417
Gabriel Haslip-Viera
38 Looking Good 427
Frances Negrón-Muntaner
39 "Chico, what does it feel like to be a problem?" The Transmission of Brownness 441
José Esteban Muñoz
40 "Fantasy Heritage": Tracking Latina Bloodlines 452
Rosa Linda Fregoso
Part VII En El Mundo: Transnational Connections
41 Latinas/os and Latin America: Topics, Destinies, Disciplines 461
Román de la Campa
42 Latinas/os and the (Re)racializing of US Society and Politics 469
Suzanne Oboler
43 Refugees or Economic Immigrants? Immigration from Latin America and the Politics of US Refugee Policy 480
María Cristina García
44 Inter-American Ethnography: Tracking Salvadoran Transnationality at the Borders of Latina/o and Latin American Studies 492
Elana Zilberg
45 From the Borderlands to the Transnational? Critiquing Empire in the Twenty-First Century 502
María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo
Index 513
