Latino Crossings: Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, and the Politics of Race and Citizenship

Book Cover......Page 1
Half-Title......Page 2
Title......Page 3
Copyright......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Acknowledgments......Page 6
CHAPTER 1 Introduction: Latino Crossings......Page 10
Mexican Migration and “Illegality”......Page 12
Puerto Rican Migration and U.S. Citizenship......Page 15
Colonization, Racialization, and the Politics of Citizenship in Comparative Perspective......Page 20
Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, and Latino Racial Formations......Page 24
Collaborative Ethnography: Research and Methodological Comparisons......Page 29
About This Book......Page 34
CHAPTER 2 “Latino” Locations: The Politics of Space in Chicago......Page 38
Mexican Migration to Chicago, and Community Formation on the South Side......Page 41
Puerto Rican Migration to Chicago and Community Formation on the North Side......Page 48
Segregation and “Latino” Community Formation in “Puerto Rican” Neighborhoods on the North Side......Page 55
The Formation of “the Latino Community”: Political Coalitions between Mexicans and Puerto Ricans......Page 59
CHAPTER 3 Economies of Dignity: Ideologies of Work and Worth......Page 62
Citizenship and “Illegality”......Page 63
The Moral Economy of “Welfare”......Page 69
The Moral Economy of “Work”......Page 73
The Racial Economy of Welfare and Work......Page 78
The Racial Economy of Dignity and Respectability......Page 82
Discreet “Civility,” Assertive “Modernity”......Page 88
The Racialization and Spatialization of Criminality and Violence......Page 100
CHAPTER 5 Familiar Apparitions: Gender and Ideologies of the Family......Page 112
Violence and Masculinity......Page 114
Masculinity and Ideologies of the “Traditional” Family......Page 120
Spectres of Machismo Haunting the “Traditional” Family......Page 125
The Subjugated (Mexican) Woman beneath Puerto Rican Women’s Liberation......Page 132
CHAPTER 6 Latino Languages, Mixed Signals......Page 148
The Racialization of Language......Page 149
Good Spanish/Bad Spanish......Page 154
Bilingualism......Page 158
Good English/Bad English......Page 166
Spanglish......Page 171
“Latino” as a Racial Category......Page 178
Latinidad as the “American” Abjection of the U.S.-Born......Page 181
Latinidad through Migrant “Illegality”—a Latinidad without Puerto Ricans......Page 186
Latinidad in Opposition to African Americans......Page 187
Latinidad as an Articulation of Working-Class Solidarity......Page 196
Latinidad as a Strategy of Middle-Class Formation......Page 198
Fractured Latinidad: Institutional Contexts, Whiteness, and Power......Page 206
CHAPTER 8 Conclusion: Latino Futures?......Page 212
Notes......Page 220
References......Page 244
Index......Page 260