A Companion to Latina/O Studies

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.

Juan Flores is currently Professor of Latino Studies in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University. For many years he has taught Puerto Rican and Latino Studies at the City University of New York (CUNY) and in the Sociology Program at CUNY Graduate Center. He is the author of Divided Borders, La venganza de Cortijo, From Bomba to Hip-Hop, and Poetry in East Germany, and co-editor of On Edge: The Crisis of Contemporary Latin American Culture. Among his other publications are the translations of Memoirs of Bernardo Vega and Cortijo’s Wake/El entierro de Cortijo by Edgardo Rodríguez Juliá.

A Chicano scholar, Renato Rosaldo is Lucy Stern Professor Emeritus at Stanford where he taught for many years, and he now teaches at NYU where he was founding Director of the Latino Studies Program. His books include Ilongot Headhunting, 1883–1974 and Culture and Truth. A collection of his essays, Renato Rosaldo: Ensayos en antropología crítica, was recently published in Mexico. He has edited a collection, Cultural Citizenship in Island Southeast Asia, and also co-edited collections, The Incas and the Aztecs, 1400–1800, Creativity/Anthropology, and The Anthropology of Globalization: A Reader. Written in English and Spanish, his first collection of poetry, Prayer to Spider Woman/Rezo a la mujer araña, won an American Book Award, 2004. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Notes on Contributors	p. ix
Editors' Foreword	p. xxi
Acknowledgments	p. xxvii
Latinidades
Marks of the Chicana Corpus: An Intervention in the Universality Debate	p. 3
The New Latin Nation: Immigration and the Hispanic Population of the United States	p. 15
"Dime con quien hablas, y te dire quien eres": Linguistic (In)security and Latina/o Unity	p. 25
(Re)constructing Latinidad: The Challenge of Latina/o Studies	p. 39
The Name Game: Locating Latinas/os, Latins, and Latin Americans in the US Popular Music Landscape	p. 49
Cuando Dios y Usted Quiere: Latina/o Studies Between Religious Powers and Social Thought	p. 60
Latina/o Cultural Expressions: A View of US Society Through the Eyes of the Subaltern	p. 77
Actos: Critical Practices
Jose Limon, the Devil and the Dance	p. 93
The Everyday Civil War: Migrant Labor, Capital, and Latina/o Studies	p. 105
The Powers of Women's Words: Oral Tradition and Performance Art	p. 116
Language and Other Lethal Weapons: Cultural Politics and the Rites of Children as Translators of Culture	p. 126
Looking for Papi: Longing and Desire Among Chicano Gay Men	p. 138
On Becoming	p. 151
Vidas: Herstories/Histories
Of Heretics and Interlopers	p. 159
Coloring Class: Racial Constructions in Twentieth-Century Chicana/o Historiography	p. 169
"El Louie" by Jose Montoya: An Appreciation	p. 180
Preservation Matters: Research, Community, and the Archive	p. 185
The Star in My Compass	p. 194
"Y Que Pasara Con Jovenes Como Miguel Fernandez?" Education, Immigration, and the Future of Latinas/os in the United States	p. 202
En la lucha: Sites of Struggle
Latinas/os and the Elusive Quest for Equal Education	p. 217
The Moral Monster: Hispanics Recasting Honor and Respectability Behind Bars	p. 229
A Rebellious Philosophy Born in East LA	p. 240
Latinas/os at the Threshold of the Information Age: Telecommunications Challenges and Opportunities	p. 251
Conceptualizing the Latina Experience in Care Work	p. 264
Surviving AIDS in an Uneven World: Latina/o Studies for a Brown Epidemic	p. 276
Post-Movimiento: The Contemporary (Re)Generation of Chicana(o) Art	p. 289
"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	p. 297
Mestizaje: Revisiting Race
Latinas/os and the Mestizo Racial Heritage of Mexican Americans	p. 313
Looking at that Middle Ground: Racial Mixing as Panacea?	p. 325
Color Matters: Latina/o Racial Identities and Life Chances	p. 337
Between Blackness and Latinidad in the Hip Hop Zone	p. 351
Afro-Latinas/os and the Racial Wall	p. 363
The (W)rite to Remember: Indigena as Scribe 2004-5 (an excerpt)	p. 376
Identidades: Producing Subjectivities
"How I Learned To Love Salseros When My Hair Was A Mess" by Edwin Torres: A Comment	p. 393
Reflections on Thirty Years of Critical Practice in Chicana/o Cultural Studies	p. 397
Social Aesthetics and the Transnational Imaginary	p. 406
The Taino Identity Movement Among Caribbean Latinas/os in the United States	p. 417
Looking Good	p. 427
"Chico, what does it feel like to be a problem?" The Transmission of Brownness	p. 441
"Fantasy Heritage": Tracking Latina Bloodlines	p. 452
En El Mundo: Transnational Connections
Latinas/os and Latin America: Topics, Destinies, Disciplines	p. 461
Latinas/os and the (Re)racializing of US Society and Politics	p. 469
Refugees or Economic Immigrants? Immigration from Latin America and the Politics of US Refugee Policy	p. 480
Inter-American Ethnography: Tracking Salvadoran Transnationality at the Borders of Latina/o and Latin American Studies	p. 492
From the Borderlands to the Transnational? Critiquing Empire in the Twenty-First Century	p. 502
Index	p. 513
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