Critical dialogues in Latinx studies : a reader / edited by Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas and Mérida M. Rúa.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ramos-Zayas, Ana Y., editor.

Rúa, Mérida M., editor.

Series:

NYU scholarship online.

NYU scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hispanic Americans.

Latin Americans--United States.

Latin Americans.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 571 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, 2021.

Summary:

This groundbreaking work offers a multidisciplinary, social-science oriented perspective on Latinx studies, including the social histories and contemporary lives of a diverse range of Latina and Latino populations.

Contents:

Puerto Rico : the ascent and decline of an American colony / Pedro Cabán

Borders and crossings : lessons of the 1980s Central American solidarity movement for 2010s sanctuary practices / Susan Coutin

"A cartel built for love" : "Medellín," Pablo Escobar, and the scripts of global Colombianidad / Maria Elena Cepeda

Geographies of race and ethnicity III : settler colonialism and nonnative people of color / Laura Pulido

Disposable strangers : Mexican Americans, Latinxs, and the ethnic label "Hispanic" in the twenty-first century / Suzanne Oboler

Querying Central America(n) from the U.S. diaspora / Maritza Cárdenas

More than Christian and Mestizo : race, culture, and identity within Latino/a theology and religious studies / Michelle A. Gonzalez

DNA + Latinx : complicando the double helix / Nelly Rosario

Guatemalan-origin children's transnational ties / Cecilia Menjívar

Placing text : culture, place, and the affective dimension of vernacular ambient text / Rebio Diaz-Cardona

(Re)claiming public space and place : Maya community formation in Westlake/MacArthur Park / Alicia Ivonne Estrada

Health brokers, shrinks, and urban shamans revisited : networks of care among Argentine immigrants in New York City / Anahi Viladrich

#FamiliesBelongTogether : Central American family separations from the 1980s to 2019 / Leisy J. Abrego and Ester Hernandez

Colonial projects : public housing and the management of Puerto Ricans in New York City, 1945-1970 / Vanessa Rosa

Puerto Rico, Palestine, and the politics of resistance and surveillance at the University of Illinois Chicago circle / Sara Awartani

"Now why do you want to know about that?" : Heteronormativity, sexism, and racism in the sexual (mis)education of Latina youth" / Lorena Garcia

Refashioning Afro-Latinidad : Garifuna New Yorkers in diaspora / Paul Joseph López Oro

The life and times of trans activist Sylvia Rivera / Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes

'"Blossom as the rose" : exploring a politics of worthiness for millennial Latina/o Latter Day Saints / Sujey Vega

Guillermo Alvarez Guedes and the politics of play in Cuban America / Albert Sergio Laguna

Urban designers and the Politics of latinizing the built environment / Johana Londoño

The Bronx in focus : the visual politics of En Foco, Inc. / Sebastián Perez

Racialized hauntings of the devalued dead / Lisa Marie Cacho

"Citizenship takes practice" : Latina/o youth, JROTC, and the performance of citizenship / Gina Perez

In pursuit of property and forgiveness : Lin-Manuel Miranda's Hamilton and In the Heights / Elena Machado Sáez

Leaving Lima behind : the immigration of Peruvian professionals to Miami / Elena Sabogal

Latino anti-Black bias and the census categorization of Latinos : race, ethnicity, or other? / Tanya Katerí Hernández

Regulating space and time : the disciplining of Latina and Black sheltered-homeless women in NYC / Odilka S. Santiago

The afterlife of U.S. disciplining institutions : transnational structures of (im)mobility among Peruvian deportees / Ulla D. Berg

Wars, diasporas, and un/re-rooted familial geographies : from Springfield, Massachusetts, to São Paulo, Brazil, and beyond / Bahia M. Munem

Regeneration : love, drugs and the remaking of Hispano inheritance / Angela Garcia

Blackness, Latinidad, and minority linked fate / Jennifer A. Jones

Chongivity activity : Latinx hyperfemininity as iconography, performance, and praxis of belonging / Jillian Hernández

Capturing the church familia : scriptural documents and photographs on the agricultural labor circuit / Lloyd Barba

Aguanile : critical listening, mourning, and decolonial healing / Frances R. Aparicio

The power and possibilities of a Latinx community-academic praxis in civic engagement / Mari Castañeda Joseph Krupczynski

Bridging activism and teaching in Latinx studies / Lorgia Garcia Peña

On being a white person of color : using autoethnography to understand Puerto Ricans' racialization / Salvador Vidal-Ortiz

Brujx : an Afro-Latinx queer gesture / Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on December 2, 2021).

ISBN:

9781479805235

1479805238

OCLC:

1259319782