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Silvio Torres-Saillant's collected writings examine political contradictions within Latinx identity in the United States.
Since the 1990s Silvio Torres-Saillant's work has questioned the notion of Latinidad, challenging presumptions of panethnic unity within the US Hispanic population and assessing dominant modes of Latinx representation. The essays in Problematic Paradigms and the Contours of US Latinidad examine the dynamics of a diverse collective of over 65 million people whose cultural heritage, ancestral origins, and belief systems arguably differ as much as they resemble one another. The volume dissects prevailing assumptions, namely the essentializing sense of homogeneity in the Latinx "community," which mask important nuances and fascinating contradictions. Torres-Saillant also targets the role of marketing and mass communications in shaping popular perceptions of ethnic groups, thereby tracing connections between media rhetoric and the language of scholarship.
Newly revised by editors Nancy Kang and Michael Nieto Garcia, this collection curates Torres-Saillant's core contributions to Latinx studies over the last two decades and underscores the veteran scholar's evolving thoughts on key conversations in the field. The epilogue narrates his beginnings in Caribbean studies, acknowledges his ongoing analysis of Dominican blackness, and discourages uncritical views of cultural heritage.
Contents
Note on Terminology. Latino, Latina/o, Latin@, Latinx, Latine, and Whatever Comes Next: Considering Multiple Identity Labels
Introduction. On Problematic Paradigms and the Poetics of Identity (Nancy Kang and Michael Nieto Garcia)
Part I. Approaches to Dominican Studies: History, Literature, and Culture
Chapter 1. Before the Diaspora: Early Dominican Literature in the United States
Chapter 2. Visions of Dominicanness in the United States
Chapter 3. Pilgrims of Humane Remembrance at the Borderlands
Part II. Latinidad in Literature, Culture, and Politics
Chapter 4. Latino Identity, Nationalism, and Latinidad: A Tenuous "Community"
Chapter 5. The Political Essay and Latino Autobiography
Chapter 6. Inventing the Race: Latinos and the Ethnoracial Pentagon
Chapter 7. Problematic Paradigms: Racial Diversity and Corporate Identity in the Latino Community
Part III. Critical Readings of Racial Politics and Afro-Latinidades
Chapter 8. Afro-Latinidad: Phoenix Rising from Hemispheric Ashes
Chapter 9. Racism in the Americas and the Latino Scholar
Chapter 10. Afro-Latinos and the Racial Wall
Epilogue. On Being Collected: Looking Backwards and the Perils of Baseball Nationalism (Silvio Torres-Saillant)
Acknowledgments
Credits and Publication History
Works Cited
Index
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