Critical Dialogues in Latinx Studies : : A Reader / / ed. by Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas, Mérida M. Rúa.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 English
• MitwirkendeR: Abrego, Leisy J.,; Aparicio, Frances R.,; Awartani, Sara,; Barba, Lloyd,; Beliso-De Jesús, Aisha M.,; Berg, Ulla D.,; Cabán, Pedro,; Cacho, Lisa Marie,; Castañeda, Mari,; Cepeda, María Elena,; Coutin, Susan,; Cárdenas, Maritza,; Díaz-Cardona, Rebio,; Estrada, Alicia Ivonne,; Garcia, Angela,; Garcia, Lorena,; González, Michelle A.,; Hernández, Ester,; Hernández, Jillian,; Hernández, Tanya Katerí,; Jones, Jennifer A.,; Krupczynski, Joseph,; La Fountain-Stokes, Lawrence,; Laguna, Albert Sergio,; Londoño, Johana,; López Oro, Paul Joseph,; Menjívar, Cecilia,; Munem, Bahia M.,; Oboler, Suzanne,; Peña, Lorgia Garcia,; Pulido, Laura,; Pérez, Gina,; Pérez, Sebastián,; Ramos-Zayas, Ana Y.,; Rosa, Vanessa,; Rosario, Nelly,; Rúa, Mérida M.,; Sabogal, Elena,; Santiago, Odilka S.,; Sáez, Elena Machado,; Vega, Sujey,; Vidal-Ortiz, Salvador,; Viladrich, Anahí,
• HerausgeberIn: Ramos-Zayas, Ana Y.,; Rúa, Mérida M.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource :; 40 b/w illustrations

Introduces new approaches, theoretical trends, and understudied topics in Latinx StudiesThis groundbreaking work offers a multidisciplinary, social-science oriented perspective on Latinx studies, including the social histories and contemporary lives of a diverse range of Latina and Latino population...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Introduction
• Critical Diálogo 1. US Imperialism and Colonial Legacies of Latinx Migrations
• 1. Puerto Rico: The Ascent and Decline of an American Colony
• 2. Borders and Crossings: Lessons of the 1980s Central American Solidarity Movement for 2010s Sanctuary Practices
• 3. “A Cartel Built for Love”: “Medellín,” Pablo Escobar, and the Scripts of Global Colombianidad
• 4. Geographies of Race and Ethnicity III: Settler Colonialism and Nonnative People of Color
• Critical Diálogo 2. The Politics of Labeling Latinidades and Social Movements
• 5. Disposable Strangers: Mexican Americans, Latinxs, and the Ethnic Label “Hispanic” in the Twenty- First Century
• 6. Querying Central America(n) from the US Diaspora
• 7. More than Christian and Mestizo: Race, Culture, and Identity within Latino/a Theology and Religious Studies
• 8. DNA+Latinx: Complicando the Double Helix
• Critical Diálogo 3. Recasting Spaces, Embodying Community
• 9. Guatemalan- Origin Children’s Transnational Ties
• 10. Placing Text: Culture, Place, and the Affective Dimension of Vernacular Ambient Text
• 11. (Re)Claiming Public Space and Place: Maya Community Formation in Westlake/MacArthur Park
• 12. Health Brokers, Shrinks, and Urban Shamans Revisited: Networks of Care among Argentine Immigrants in New York City
• Critical Diálogo 4. Surveillance and Policing in Everyday Life
• 13. #FamiliesBelongTogether: Central American Family Separations from the 1980s to 2019
• 14. Colonial Projects: Public Housing and the Management of Puerto Ricans in New York City, 1945– 1970
• 15. Puerto Rico, Palestine, and the Politics of Resistance and Surveillance at the University of Illinois Chicago Circle
• 16. “Now Why Do You Want to Know about That?”: Heteronormativity, Sexism, and Racism in the Sexual (Mis)education of Latina Youth
• 17. Refashioning Afro- Latinidad: Garifuna New Yorkers in Diaspora
• Critical Diálogo 5. Work and the Politics of “Deservingness”
• 18. The Life and Times of Trans Activist Sylvia Rivera
• 19. “Blossom as the Rose”: Exploring a Politics of Worthiness for Millennial Latina/o Latter Day Saints
• 20. Guillermo Alvarez Guedes and the Politics of Play in Cuban America
• 21. Urban Designers and the Politics of Latinizing the Built Environment
• 22. The Bronx in Focus: The Visual Politics of En Foco, Inc.
• Critical Diálogo 6. Citizenship Subjects and “Illegality”
• 23. Racialized Hauntings of the Devalued Dead
• 24. “Citizenship Takes Practice”: Latina/o Youth, JROTC, and the Performance of Citizenship
• 25. In Pursuit of Property and Forgiveness: Lin- Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton and In the Heights
• 26. Leaving Lima Behind: The Immigration of Peruvian Professionals to Miami
• Critical Diálogo 7. Disciplining Institutions, Evicting Regimes
• 27. Latino Anti- Black Bias and the Census Categorization of Latinos: Race, Ethnicity, or Other?
• 28. Regulating Space and Time: The Disciplining of Latina and Black Sheltered- Homeless Women in NYC
• 29. The Afterlife of US Disciplining Institutions: Transnational Structures of (Im)mobility among Peruvian Deportees
• 30. Wars, Diasporas, and Un/Re- Rooted Familial Geographies: From Springfield, Massachusetts, to São Paulo, Brazil, and Beyond
• 31. Regeneration: Love, Drugs, and the Remaking of Hispano Inheritance
• Critical Diálogo 8. Latinx Kinship and Relatedness
• 32. Blackness, Latinidad, and Minority Linked Fate
• 33. Chongivity Activity: Latinx Hyperfemininity as Iconography, Performance, and Praxis of Belonging
• 34. Capturing the Church Familia: Scriptural Documents and Photographs on the Agricultural Labor Circuit
• 35. Aguanile: Critical Listening, Mourning, and Decolonial Healing
• Critical Diálogo 9. Community Engagement, Critical Methodologies, and Social Justice
• 36. The Power and Possibilities of a Latinx Community- Academic Praxis in Civic Engagement
• 37. Bridging Activism and Teaching in Latinx Studies
• 38. On Being a White Person of Color: Using Autoethnography to Understand Puerto Ricans’ Racialization
• 39. Brujx: An Afro- Latinx Queer Gesture
• About the Contributors
• Index