A Companion to Latina/o Studies

Notes on Contributors......Page 9
Editors’ Foreword......Page 21
Acknowledgments......Page 27
PART ONE Latinidades......Page 29
CHAPTER ONE Marks of the Chicana Corpus: An Intervention in the Universality Debate......Page 31
CHAPTER TWO The New Latin Nation: Immigration and the Hispanic Population of the United States......Page 43
CHAPTER THREE “Dime con quién hablas, y te diré quién eres”: Linguistic (In)security and Latina/o Unity......Page 53
CHAPTER FOUR (Re)constructing Latinidad: The Challenge of Latina/o Studies Frances R. Aparicio......Page 67
CHAPTER FIVE The Name Game: Locating Latinas/os, Latins, and Latin Americans in the US Popular Music Landscape Deborah Pacini Hernández......Page 77
CHAPTER SIX Cuando Dios y Usted Quiere: Latina/o Studies Between Religious Powers and Social Thought David Carrasco......Page 88
CHAPTER SEVEN Latina/o Cultural Expressions: A View of US Society Through the Eyes of the Subaltern Edna Acosta-Belén......Page 105
PART TWO Actos: Critical Practices......Page 119
CHAPTER EIGHT José Limón, the Devil and the Dance José E. Limón......Page 121
CHAPTER NINE The Everyday Civil War: Migrant Labor, Capital, and Latina/o Studies Nicholas De Genova......Page 133
CHAPTER TEN The Powers of Women’s W ords: Oral Tradition and Performance Art Y olanda Broyles-González......Page 144
CHAPTER ELEVEN Language and Other Lethal Weapons: Cultural Politics and the Rites of Children as T ranslators of Culture Antonia I. Castañeda......Page 154
CHAPTER TWELVE Looking for Papi: Longing and Desire Among Chicano Gay Men T omás Almaguer......Page 166
CHAPTER THIRTEEN On Becoming Nelly Rosario......Page 179
PART THREE V idas: Herstories/ Histories......Page 185
CHAPTER FOURTEEN Of Heretics and Interlopers Arturo Madrid......Page 187
CHAPTER FIFTEEN Coloring Class: Racial Constructions in Twentieth-Century Chicana/o Historiography V icki L. Ruiz......Page 197
CHAPTER SIXTEEN “El Louie” by José Montoya: An Appreciation Raúl Villa......Page 208
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Preservation Matters: Research, Community, and the Archive Chon A. Noriega......Page 213
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN The Star in My Compass V irginia Sánchez Korrol......Page 222
CHAPTER NINETEEN “Y Que Pasara Con Jovenes Como Miguel Fernández?” Education, Immigration, and the Future of Latinas/os in the United States Pedro A. Noguera......Page 230
PART FOUR En la lucha: Sites of Struggle......Page 243
CHAPTER TWENTY Latinas/os and the Elusive Quest for Equal Education Sonia Nieto......Page 245
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE The Moral Monster: Hispanics Recasting Honor and Respectability Behind Bars Patricia Fernández-Kelly......Page 257
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO A Rebellious Philosophy Born in East LA Gerald P. López......Page 268
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE Latinas/os at the Threshold of the Information Age: T elecommunications Challenges and Opportunities Jorge Reina Schement......Page 279
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR Conceptualizing the Latina Experience in Care Work Mary Romero......Page 292
CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE Surviving AIDS in an Uneven World: Latina/o Studies for a Brown Epidemic 1 Carlos Ulises Decena......Page 304
CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX Post-Movimiento: The Contemporary (Re)Generation of Chicana/o Art T omás Ybarra-Frausto......Page 317
CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN “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 Neil Foley......Page 325
PART FIVE Mestizaje: Revisiting Race......Page 339
CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT Latinas/os and the Mestizo Racial Heritage of Mexican Americans Martha Menchaca......Page 341
CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE Looking at that Middle Ground: Racial Mixing as Panacea? Miriam Jiménez Román......Page 353
CHAPTER THIRTY Color Matters: Latina/o Racial Identities and Life Chances Ginetta E. B. Candelario......Page 365
CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE Between Blackness and Latinidad in the Hip Hop Zone Raquel Z. Rivera......Page 379
CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO Afro-Latinas/os and the Racial Wall Silvio Torres-Saillant......Page 391
CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE The (W)rite to Remember: Indígena as Scribe 2004 – 5 (an excerpt) Cherríe Moraga......Page 404
PART SIX Identidades: Producing Subjectivities......Page 419
CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR “How I Learned To Love Salseros When My Hair W as A Mess” by Edwin T orres: A Comment Edwin Torres......Page 421
CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE Reflections on Thirty Y ears of Critical Practice in Chicana/o Cultural Studies Y vonne Yarbro-Bejarano......Page 425
CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX Social Aesthetics and the Transnational Imaginary Ramón Saldívar......Page 434
CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN The Taíno Identity Movement Among Caribbean Latinas/os in the United States Gabriel Haslip-Viera......Page 445
CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT Looking Good Frances Negrón-Muntaner......Page 455
CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE “Chico, what does it feel like to be a problem?” The Transmission of Brownness José Esteban Muñoz......Page 469
CHAPTER FORTY “Fantasy Heritage”: T racking Latina Bloodlines Rosa Linda Fregoso......Page 480
PART SEVEN En El Mundo: T ransnational Connections......Page 487
CHAPTER FORTY-ONE Latinas/os and Latin America: Topics, Destinies, Disciplines Román de la Campa......Page 489
CHAPTER FORTY-TWO Latinas/os and the (Re)racializing of US Society and Politics Suzanne Oboler......Page 497
CHAPTER FORTY-THREE Refugees or Economic Immigrants? Immigration from Latin America and the Politics of US Refugee Policy María Cristina García......Page 508
CHAPTER FORTY-FOUR Inter-American Ethnography: Tracking Salvadoran Transnationality at the Borders of Latina/o and Latin American Studies Elana Zilberg......Page 520
CHAPTER FORTY-FIVE From the Borderlands to the Transnational? Critiquing Empire in the Twenty-First Century María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo......Page 530
Index......Page 541