Latining America : Black-Brown Passages and the Coloring of Latino/a Studies / / Claudia Milian.

• Author: Milian, Claudia.
• Place / Publishing House: Athens : : University of Georgia Press,, [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: The new Southern studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (317 pages) :; illustrations.
• Notes: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Claudia Milian proposes that the economies of blackness, brownness, and dark brownness summon a new grammar for Latino/a studies that she names "Latinities". Milian argues that this ensnared economy of meaning startles the typical reading practices deployed for brown Latino/a embodiment. Latining America keeps company with and challenges existent models of Latinidad, demanding a distinct paradigm that puts into question what is understood as Latino and Latina today. Milian conceptually considers how underexplored "Latin participants" the southern, the black, the dark brown, the Central American have ushered in a new world of Latina signification from the 1920s to the present.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Copiousness of Latin -- Southern Latinities -- Passing Latinities -- Indigent Latinities -- Disorienting Latinities -- Epilogue.