A companion to Latina/o studies / edited by Juan Flores and Renato Rosaldo.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Flores, Juan, 1943-2014.

Rosaldo, Renato.

Series:

Blackwell companions in cultural studies ; 14.

Blackwell companions in cultural studies ; 14

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hispanic Americans--Study and teaching.

Hispanic Americans.

Hispanic Americans--Social conditions.

Hispanic Americans--Intellectual life.

Hispanic Americans--Race identity.

Race relations.

United States--Race relations--Study and teaching.

United States.

United States--Race relations.

Physical Description:

xxviii, 528 pages ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2007.

Summary:

A Companion to Latina/o Studies is a collection of 45 original essays written by leading scholars in the Latina/o studies field. These writers explore themes spanning great depths of creative scholarship, and the essays cover everything from theories of latinisimo, immigration, education, language and religion; to discussions on political and economic perspectives, and race, class, and gender-sexuality. The volume also explores broader questions encompassing history, identity, public representations, and cultural expression within the Latino community. The racialization of African and Native American heritages is examined as well.The Companion provides thoughtful insights into what is now undeniably the largest minority in the United States, and is an essential resource for all scholars in the growing field of Latina/o Studies.

Contents:

Marks of the Chicana corpus : an intervention in the universality debate / Helena Maria Viramontes

The new Latin nation : immigration and the Hispanic population of the United States / Alejandro Portes

"Dime con quién hablas, y te diré quién eres" : linguistic (in)security and Latina/o unity / Ana Celia Zentella

(Re)constructing Latinidad : the challenge of Latina/o studies / Frances R. Aparicio

The name game : locating Latinas/os, Latins, and Latin Americans in the US popular music landscape / Deborah Pacini Hernández

Cuando Dios y usted quiere : Latina/o studies between religious powers and social thought / David Carrasco

Latina/o cultural expressions : a view of US society through the eyes of the subaltern / Edna Acosta-Belén

José Limón, the devil and the dance / Jose E. Limón

The everyday civil war : migrant labor, capital, and Latina/o studies / Nicholas De Genova

The powers of women's words : oral traditions and performance art / Yolanda Broyles-González

Language and other lethal weapons : cultural politics and the rites of children as translators of culture / Antonio I. Castañeda

Looking for Papi : longing and desire among Chicano gay men / Tomás Almaguer

On becoming / Nelly Rosario

Of heretics and interlopers / Arturo Madrid

Coloring class : racial constructions in twentieth-century Chicana/o historiography / Vicki Ruiz

"El Louie" by Jośe Montoya : an appreciation / Raúl Villa

Preservation matters : research, community, and the archive / Chon A. Noriega

The star in my compass / Virginia Sánchez Korrol

"Y que pasara con jovenes como Miguel Fernandez?" : education, immigration, and the future of Latinas/os in the United States / Pedro A. Noguera

Latinas/os and the elusive queso for equal education / Sonia Nieto

The moral monster : Hispanics recasting honor and respectability behind bars / Patricia Fernández-Kelly

A rebellious philosophy born in East LA / Gerald P. López

Latinas/os at the threshold of the information age : telecommunications challenges and opportunities / Jorge Reina Schement

Conceptualizing the Latina experience in care work / Mary Romero

Surviving AIDs in an uneven world : Latina/o studies for a brown epidemic / Carlos Ulises Decena

Post-movimiento : the contemporary (re)generation of Chicana/o art / Tomás Ybarra-Frausto

"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 / Neil Foley

Latinas/os and the Mestizo racial heritage of Mexican Americans / Martha Menchaca

Looking at that middle ground : racial mixing as a panacea? / Miriam Jiménez-Román

Color matters : Latina/o racial identities and life chances / Ginetta E.B. Candelario

Between blackness and latinidad in the hip hop zone / Raquel Z. Rivera

Afro-Latinas/os and the racial wall / Silvio Torres-Saillant

The (w)rite to remember : indigena as scribe 2004-5 (an excerpt) / Cherrie Moraga

"How I learned to love salseros when my hair was a mess" by Edwin Torres : a comment / Edwin Torres

Reflections on thirty years of critical practice in Chicana/o cultural studies / Yvonne Yarbro-Bejarano

Social aesthetics and the transnational imaginary / Ramón Saldívar

The Taino identity movement among Caribbean Latinas/os in the United States / Gabriel Haslip-Viera

Looking good / Frances Negrón-Muntaner

"Chico, what does it feel like to be a problem?" : the transmission of brownness / José Esteban Muñoz

"Fantasy heritage" : tracking Latina bloodlines / Rosa Linda Fregoso

Latinas/os and Latin America : topics, destinies, disciplines / Román de la Campa

Latinas/os and the (re)racializing of US society and politics / Suzanne Oboler

Refugees or economic immigrants? : immigration from Latin America and the politics of US refugee policy / Maria Cristina García

Inter-American ethnography : tracking Salvadoran transnationality at the borders of Latina/o and Latin American studies / Elana Zilberg

From the borderlands to the transnational? : critiquing empire in the twenty-first century / Maria Josefina Saldaña-Portillo.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781405126229

1405126221

OCLC:

83608108

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