Latino Studies: A 20th Anniversary Reader

ISBN-13: 9783031377839 / Angielski

Lourdes Torres; Marisa Alicea

Spis treści

1. Introduction

  Lourdes Torres and Marisa Alicea

Part I Latinidades/Identidades

2. Jennifer as Selena: Rethinking Latinidad in Media and Popular Culture 

Frances R. Aparicio 

3. The Central American Transnational Imaginary: Defining the Transnational and Gendered Contours of Central American Immigrant Experience

Yajaira M. Padilla

4. Dora the Explorer, Constructing “Latinidades” and the Politics of Global Citizenship 

Nicole M. Guidotti-Hernández

5. Making Masculinity: Negotiations of Gender Presentation Among Latino Gay Men 

Anthony Ocampo

6. “Wild Tongues Can’t be Tamed”: Rumor, Racialized Sexuality, and the 1917 Bath Riots in the US-Mexico Borderlands 

Tala Khanmalek

Part II Race/Racializations

7. Inventing the Race: Latinos and the Ethnoracial Pentagon 

Silvio Torres-Saillant

8. Latinos as the “Living Dead”: Raciality, Expendability, and Border Militarization 

John D. Márquez

9. TWB (Talking while Bilingual): Linguistic Profiling of Latina/os, and other Linguistic torquemadas

Ana Celia Zentella

10. Critical Latinx Indigeneities: A Paradigm Drift  

María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo

11. “Better than White Trash”: Work Ethic, Latinidad and Whiteness in Rural Arkansas 

Miranda Cady Hallett 

Part III Migration/Immigration

12. “I Can’t Go to College Because I Don’t Have Papers”: Incorporation Patterns of Latino Undocumented Youth 

Leisy J. Abrego

13. The Invisibility of Farmworkers: Implications and Remedies 

Ken Saldanha

14. Latino Immigrant Men and the Deportation Crisis: A Gendered Racial Removal Program

Tanya Golash-Boza and Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo

15. Pursuant to Deportation: Latinos and Immigrant Detention 

David Hernández

16. Dispatches from the “Viejo” New South: Historicizing Recent Latino Migrations 

Julie M. Weise

Part IV Legality, Citizenship, Belonging

17. The Legal Production of Mexican/Migrant “Illegality”

Nicholas De Genova

18. Central American Immigrant Workers and Legal Violence in Phoenix, Arizona 

Cecilia Menjívar

19. Delinquent Citizenship, National Performances: Racialization, Surveillance, and the Politics of “Worthiness” in Puerto Rican Chicago 

Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas

20. Beyond Resistance in Dominican American Women’s Fiction: Healing and Growth through the Spectrum of Quietude in Angie Cruz’s Soledad and Naima Coster’s Halsey Street 

Regina Marie Mills

21. Disposable Subjects: The Racial Normativity of Neoliberalism and Latino Immigrants 

Raymond Rocco

O autorze

Lourdes Torres is Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies at DePaul University.  She is editor of Latino Studies and author of Puerto Rican Discourse: A Sociolinguistic Study of a New York Suburb.  Her co-authored book Spanish in Chicago is forthcoming.

 

Marisa Alicea is Professor of Sociology and an affiliate faculty member of the Latin American and Latino Studies Department at DePaul University. She is co-author of Surviving Heroin: Interviews with Women in Methadone Clinics and co-editor of Migration and Immigration: A Global View. Marisa currently serves an associate editor of Latino Studies. 

Blurb

This book highlights cutting-edge articles published in the journal, Latino Studies, over the last two decades. It features the work of leading and emerging scholars whose innovative theoretical and conceptual contributions to Latinx studies have shaped scholarly debates in our interdisciplinary field and continue to have an impact. This collection embraces a broad range of topics organized in four sections representative of major themes in Latinx studies including: Latinidades/Identidades, Race/Racialization, Migration/Immigration, and Legality/Citizenship/Belonging.  Latino Studies: A 20th Year Anniversary Reader will be an indispensable resource for students and scholars looking for a robust interdisciplinary introduction to Latinx studies, the pivotal issues and debates that have shaped the field over the recent past, and directions for future research.

 

Lourdes Torres is Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies at DePaul University.  She is editor of Latino Studies and author of Puerto Rican Discourse: A Sociolinguistic Study of a New York Suburb.  Her co-authored book Spanish in Chicago is forthcoming.

 

Marisa Alicea is Professor of Sociology and an affiliate faculty member of the Latin American and Latino Studies Department at DePaul University. She is co-author of Surviving Heroin: Interviews with Women in Methadone Clinics and co-editor of Migration and Immigration: A Global View. Marisa currently serves an associate editor of Latino Studies.