Inside the Latin@ Experience A Latin@ Studies Reader

This book explores the varied and unique Latinidades, or Latin@ cultural identities, that exist in the United States. Each author in the anthology is an insider of the Latin@ community who employs various theoretical tools to present the historical and current conditions of Latin@s living in the United States in the first decade of the twenty-first century. A unique collection of essays covering the Latin@ reality from various disciplinary perspectives, this book offers insights and incisive which is sure to contribute to the future of Latin@ Studies. Book jacket.

Norma E.Cantu, a daughter of the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, currently serves as Professor of English and U.S. Latin@ Literatures at the University of Texas at San Antonio. Author of the award-winning Canicula Snapshots of a Girlhood en la Frontera, and co-editor of Chicana Traditions: Continuity and Change; Telling to Live: Latina Feminist Testimonios; and Dancing Across Borders: Danzas y Bailes Mexicanos, she is known internationally as a poet, fiction writer, folklorist, and scholar of the U.S.-Mexico borderlands and of Latin@ cultural production
Maria E. Franquiz is Associate Professor of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Texas-Austin and is a native of Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico. Her research focuses on bilingual/multicultural education and language/literacy studies. She co-edited Scholars in the Field: The Challenges of Migrant Education and is co-editor of The Bilingual Research Journal. Franquiz's publications appear in national professional journals including Journal of Latinos and Education, English Leadership Quarterly, Multicultural Perspectives, The Journal of Border Educational Research, Language Arts, California English, The High School Journal, Reading Research Quarterly, Journal of Classroom Interaction, and in professional journals for an international audience including TESOL Quarterly and Education Research and Perspective