A Companion to Latina/o Studies

Juan Flores, Renato Rosaldo

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Year: 2009
• Print ISBN: 9781405126229
• eBook ISBN: 9780470766026
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Hispanic American Studies
• Index: Social Sciences

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).

Table of contents

• Notes on Contributors
• Editors’ Foreword
• Acknowledgments
• PART ONE Latinidades
• CHAPTER ONE Marks of the Chicana Corpus: An Intervention in the Universality Debate
• CHAPTER TWO The New Latin Nation: Immigration and the Hispanic Population of the United States
• CHAPTER THREE “Dime con quién hablas, y te diré quién eres”: Linguistic (In)security and Latina/o Unity
• CHAPTER FOUR (Re)constructing Latinidad: The Challenge of Latina/o Studies Frances R. Aparicio
• CHAPTER FIVE The Name Game: Locating Latinas/os, Latins, and Latin Americans in the US Popular Music Landscape Deborah Pacini Hernández
• CHAPTER SIX Cuando Dios y Usted Quiere: Latina/o Studies Between Religious Powers and Social Thought David Carrasco
• CHAPTER SEVEN Latina/o Cultural Expressions: A View of US Society Through the Eyes of the Subaltern Edna Acosta-Belén
• PART TWO Actos: Critical Practices
• CHAPTER EIGHT José Limón, the Devil and the Dance José E. Limón
• CHAPTER NINE The Everyday Civil War: Migrant Labor, Capital, and Latina/o Studies Nicholas De Genova
• CHAPTER TEN The Powers of Women’s W ords: Oral Tradition and Performance Art Y olanda Broyles-González
• CHAPTER ELEVEN Language and Other Lethal Weapons: Cultural Politics and the Rites of Children as T ranslators of Culture Antonia I. Castañeda
• CHAPTER TWELVE Looking for Papi: Longing and Desire Among Chicano Gay Men T omás Almaguer
• CHAPTER THIRTEEN On Becoming Nelly Rosario
• PART THREE V idas: Herstories/ Histories
• CHAPTER FOURTEEN Of Heretics and Interlopers Arturo Madrid
• CHAPTER FIFTEEN Coloring Class: Racial Constructions in Twentieth-Century Chicana/o Historiography V icki L. Ruiz
• CHAPTER SIXTEEN “El Louie” by José Montoya: An Appreciation Raúl Villa
• CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Preservation Matters: Research, Community, and the Archive Chon A. Noriega
• CHAPTER EIGHTEEN The Star in My Compass V irginia Sánchez Korrol
• CHAPTER NINETEEN “Y Que Pasara Con Jovenes Como Miguel Fernández?” Education, Immigration, and the Future of Latinas/os in the United States Pedro A. Noguera
• PART FOUR En la lucha: Sites of Struggle
• CHAPTER TWENTY Latinas/os and the Elusive Quest for Equal Education Sonia Nieto
• CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE The Moral Monster: Hispanics Recasting Honor and Respectability Behind Bars Patricia Fernández-Kelly
• CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO A Rebellious Philosophy Born in East LA Gerald P. López
• CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE Latinas/os at the Threshold of the Information Age: T elecommunications Challenges and Opportunities Jorge Reina Schement
• CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR Conceptualizing the Latina Experience in Care Work Mary Romero
• CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE Surviving AIDS in an Uneven World: Latina/o Studies for a Brown Epidemic 1 Carlos Ulises Decena
• CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX Post-Movimiento: The Contemporary (Re)Generation of Chicana/o Art T omás Ybarra-Frausto
• CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN “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
• PART FIVE Mestizaje: Revisiting Race
• CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT Latinas/os and the Mestizo Racial Heritage of Mexican Americans Martha Menchaca
• CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE Looking at that Middle Ground: Racial Mixing as Panacea? Miriam Jiménez Román
• CHAPTER THIRTY Color Matters: Latina/o Racial Identities and Life Chances Ginetta E. B. Candelario
• CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE Between Blackness and Latinidad in the Hip Hop Zone Raquel Z. Rivera
• CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO Afro-Latinas/os and the Racial Wall Silvio Torres-Saillant
• CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE The (W)rite to Remember: Indígena as Scribe 2004 – 5 (an excerpt) Cherríe Moraga
• PART SIX Identidades: Producing Subjectivities
• CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR “How I Learned To Love Salseros When My Hair W as A Mess” by Edwin T orres: A Comment Edwin Torres
• CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE Reflections on Thirty Y ears of Critical Practice in Chicana/o Cultural Studies Y vonne Yarbro-Bejarano
• CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX Social Aesthetics and the Transnational Imaginary Ramón Saldívar
• CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN The Taíno Identity Movement Among Caribbean Latinas/os in the United States Gabriel Haslip-Viera
• CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT Looking Good Frances Negrón-Muntaner
• CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE “Chico, what does it feel like to be a problem?” The Transmission of Brownness José Esteban Muñoz
• CHAPTER FORTY “Fantasy Heritage”: T racking Latina Bloodlines Rosa Linda Fregoso
• PART SEVEN En El Mundo: T ransnational Connections
• CHAPTER FORTY-ONE Latinas/os and Latin America: Topics, Destinies, Disciplines Román de la Campa
• CHAPTER FORTY-TWO Latinas/os and the (Re)racializing of US Society and Politics Suzanne Oboler
• CHAPTER FORTY-THREE Refugees or Economic Immigrants? Immigration from Latin America and the Politics of US Refugee Policy María Cristina García
• CHAPTER FORTY-FOUR Inter-American Ethnography: Tracking Salvadoran Transnationality at the Borders of Latina/o and Latin American Studies Elana Zilberg
• CHAPTER FORTY-FIVE From the Borderlands to the Transnational? Critiquing Empire in the Twenty-First Century María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo
• Index