A Companion to Latina/o Studies (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Flores, Juan; Rosaldo, Renato

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Produktbeschreibung

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).

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 560
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Februar 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780470766026
• Artikelnr.: 38204982

Autorenporträt

Juan Flores is currently Professor of Latino Studies in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University. For many years he has taught Puerto Rican and Latino Studies at the City University of New York (CUNY) and in the Sociology Program at CUNY Graduate Center. He is the author of Divided Borders, La venganza de Cortijo, From Bomba to Hip-Hop, and Poetry in East Germany, and co-editor of On Edge: The Crisis of Contemporary Latin American Culture. Among his other publications are the translations of Memoirs of Bernardo Vega and Cortijo's Wake/El entierro de Cortijo by Edgardo Rodríguez Juliá. A Chicano scholar, Renato Rosaldo is Lucy Stern Professor Emeritus at Stanford where he taught for many years, and he now teaches at NYU where he was founding Director of the Latino Studies Program. His books include Ilongot Headhunting, 1883-1974 and Culture and Truth. A collection of his essays, Renato Rosaldo: Ensayos en antropología crítica, was recently published in Mexico. He has edited a collection, Cultural Citizenship in Island Southeast Asia, and also co-edited collections, The Incas and the Aztecs, 1400-1800, Creativity/Anthropology, and The Anthropology of Globalization: A Reader. Written in English and Spanish, his first collection of poetry, Prayer to Spider Woman/Rezo a la mujer araña, won an American Book Award, 2004. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Inhaltsangabe

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