Latinx Experiences

Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Maria J. Villasenor, Hortencia Jimenez

• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN: 9781071849569
• eBook ISBN: 9781071849538
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Hispanic American Studies
• Index: Social Sciences

This reader introduces students to the variety and complexity of Latinxs? experiences in the U.S., and  prepares them for further study in this interdisciplinary field. The opening essay, written by the editors, offers a broad overview of the approximately 59 million people in the U.S. who identify as Hispanic. The rest of the book will consist of contributed essays from Latina(o)/Chicana(o) scholars on a range of subjects including immigration, citizenship, and deportation; racial identities; political participation and power; educational and economic achievement; family; religion; media and popular culture. Although the essays are written for lower-division undergraduates, they reflect many of the leading theoretical and methodological approaches in the field. The essays are unified by an intersectional approach, demonstrating how experiences and life chances of Latinxs are also shaped by gender, social class, sexuality, age, and citizenship status.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Acknowledgements
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Brief Contents
• Detailed Contents
• About the Editors
• Contributors
• Acknowledgments
• Publisher’s Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Part I Who Are Latinxs in the United States?
• 1 Race and Latinxs in the United States
• 2 The Racial Coding of Latinx Subjectivity in the Debate Surrounding Arizona’s SB 1070
• 3 Manhood in Context
• 4 Latinx, Identities, and the Matter of Choice (Or More Simply, All Identities are Chosen … With Consequences)
• 5 Are Brazilians Latinx? Historical and Sociological Considerations
• 6 “I Always Get Deleted From the Analysis”: Multiracial Latinx Students Navigating Racial/Ethnic Identity
• Part II Immigration and Diaspora
• 7 Intersectional Vulnerability: Fragmented, Racialized, and Criminalized Illegality Among Mexican Undocumented Women in the United States
• 8 The Latino Male Threat: An Intersectional Assessment of Racialized and Gendered U.S. Migration Control Strategies
• 9 (Un)Documented Narratives: Immigration Policies, Trauma Porn, and Migration Stories1
• 10 “Essential Workers” or Sacrificial Labor? Applying the Concept of Racial Capitalism to Mexican Immigrant Farm Workers’ Disposability During the COVID-19 Pandemic
• 11 Empacadoras: The Hidden Labor of Mexican Women in the Salinas Valley
• 12 Guatemalan Islet in Koreatown
• 13 Igniting Political Representation in Times of Threatening Rhetoric: Voices From Latinas of Immigrant Origin
• 14 Latin Americans in Australia: Reconfiguring Community and the “‘Visa”’ as a Constitutive Factor of Migrant Identity
• 15 The Afro-Colombian Experience on the Pacific Coast of Colombia: Intersections of Structural Processes
• Part III Media & Pop Culture
• 16 Brains and Brawn Latino Youth in McFarland, USA and Spare Parts
• 17 From “Good Immigrant” to “Undesirable Refugee”: Controlling Metaphors and the Role of Race and Racism in the Shifting (Un)desirability of Cuban Refugees in U.S. Media
• 18 Spider-Man in the Rhizome: Miles Morales as More-Than-Human
• 19 A Confluence of Gestures: Negotiating Queer Latinx Home Space on Vida
• Part IV Education
• 20 Black and Latinx Communities in America: Building Coalitions and Alliances
• 21 Language Matters: Experiences of Aggressions, Resistance, and Perseverance in Education
• 22 Carving Alternative Learning Sites as Resistance of Latinx Teachers in K-12 Settings
• 23 Oh, That’s the Homie: A Praxis of Resiliency, Accountability, Kinship, and Defiance
• 24 Emotive Alchemies: Forging U.S. Central American Student Activism, Curriculum and Community at CSU Fullerton and Beyond
• Part V Policing, Social Control, and Community Responses
• 25 Indigenous Spirituality: Re-Indigenizing and Rehumanizing Brown and Indigenous Men Through Healing Circles
• 26 A Pedagogy of Ganas Toward Culture, Consciousness, and Movement-Building
• 27 Activating Ambiguity in Police Encounters: How Latinxs Deploy Bodily Capital and What It Means for Cross-Racial Solidarity
• Part VI Family
• 28 Manos Que Enseñan [Hands That Teach] Mexicana/Latina Campesina Mothers and Their Children Enacting the Pedagogies of Barbear
• 29 Collective Survival, Love, and Resistance The Spiritual Activism of Latina Undergraduate Daughters From Mixed Status Immigrant Families
• 30 (De)constructing the Latina Immigrant Mother Narrative and Challenging the Dichotomist Perspective of Marianismo and “The Unfit” Immigrant Mother
• 31 Together Again: Challenges Encountered by Central American Mothers Upon Reunification With Their Children
• 32 Navigating Concealable Stigmatized Identities and Status Disclosure Among Members of Latinx Mixed-Status Families
• 33 The Lived Religion of Mexican Immigrant Women
• Part VII Protest, Activism, and Everyday Resistance
• 34 Radical Self-Love: A Spiritual and Visionary Everyday Practice of Resistance by Latina Women
• 35 Demostración de la Lucha, Resistencia y Esperanza Puerto Rican Women Student Activists at Rutgers University-New Brunswick
• 36 Breaking Through the Shadows of Oppression: A DACAmented Testimonio
• 37 Jotería Power: Transforming Language, Activism, and Knowledge
• Part VIII Culture, the Past, and Latinx Futures
• 38 A History of Latinxs in Heritage Preservation
• 39 Nuancing Latinidad Through Visual Testimonios in a Women of Color Archive Latina Girls and Matriarchs as Knowledge Producers
• 40 Poco a Poco Se Anda Lejos1 Analyzing the Concept of Community Cultural Wealth Through Dichos
• 41 Latinx Food Cultures and Identities Racialized Bodies and Culinary Borders
• 42 Beginning and Ending With Borders Abolition and Latinx Futures
• References