Melissa Castillo Planas

A Mexican State of Mind

New York City and the New Borderlands of Culture

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Produktbeschreibung

A Mexican State of Mind: New York City and the New Borderlands of Culture is the story Mexican migrant creativity in New York City since 9/11 focusing on youth productions in hip hop, the arts and labor advocacy.      

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. März 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9781978802285
• ISBN-10: 1978802285
• Artikelnr.: 57394018

Autorenporträt

MELISSA CASTILLO PLANAS is an assistant professor of English at Lehman College. She is editor of the anthology, ¡Manteca!: An Anthology of Afro-Latin@ Poets and co-editor of La Verdad: An International Dialogue on Hip Hop Latinidades. 

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Preface: A Mexican State of Mind: Mexican Migrant Creativity in New York
City
Note on the Text
Introduction: Mexican Manzana: The Next Great Migration
Part I   The Container: It’s the Intermediary That Fucks You
1          “Sólo Queremos el Respeto”: Racialization of Labor in the New
York Restaurant Industry
2          Hermandad, Arte y Rebeldía: Art Collectives and Entrepreneurship
in Mexican New York
Part II  The Atlantic Borderlands: “Un movimiento joven, pero con mucho
corazón”
3          “Yo Soy Hip Hop”: Mexicanidad and Authenticity in Mexican New
York
4          "Dejamos una huella”: Graffiti and Space Claiming in a New
Borderlands
Epilogue: Hauntings and Nightmares: The Visible Border and the Invisible
Migrant in a Trump Era
Acknowledgments
Notes
Works Cited
Index