Mambo montage: the Latinization of New York

CONTENTS......Page 6
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 10
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS......Page 12
INTRODUCTION: Mambo Montage: The Latinization of New York City......Page 18
Part I: The Production of Latinidad: Histories, Social Movements, Cultural Struggles......Page 72
CHAPTER ONE: “No Country But the One We Must Fight For”: The Emergence of an Antillean Nation and Community in New York City, 1860–1901......Page 74
CHAPTER TWO: “The Latins from Manhattan”: Confronting Race and Building Community in Jim Crow Baseball, 1906–1950......Page 90
CHAPTER THREE: Latino Caribbean Diasporas in New York......Page 114
CHAPTER FOUR: Niuyol: Urban Regime, Latino Social Movements, Ideologies of Latinidad......Page 136
CHAPTER FIVE: Culture in the Battlefront: From Nationalist to Pan-Latino Projects......Page 176
Part II: Expressive Cultures: Narrating, Imaging, and Performing Latinidad......Page 200
CHAPTER SIX: Life Off the Hyphen: Latino Literature and Nuyorican Traditions......Page 202
CHAPTER SEVEN: “Nothing Connects Us All But Imagined Sounds”: Performing Trans-Boricua Memories, Identities, and Nationalisms Through the Death of.........Page 224
CHAPTER EIGHT: Hip-Hop, Puerto Ricans, and Ethnoracial Identities in New York......Page 252
CHAPTER NINE: Ambiguous Identities! The Affirmation of Puertorriqueñidad in the Community Murals of New York City......Page 280
Part III: Latino/a Identities and the Politics of Space and Place......Page 308
CHAPTER TEN: Making Loisaida: Placing Puertorriqueñidad in Lower Manhattan......Page 310
CHAPTER ELEVEN: The Manifold Character of Panethnicity: Latino Identities and Practices Among Dominicans in New York City......Page 336
CHAPTER TWELVE: Immigration Status and Identity: Undocumented Mexicans in New York......Page 354
CHAPTER THIRTEEN: Outside/In: Crossing Queer and Latino Boundaries......Page 380
CHAPTER FOURTEEN: Engendering and Coloring Labor Unions: Transcultural Readings of Latin American Women’s Ways......Page 404
Part IV: Latinizing Cityscapes......Page 426
CHAPTER FIFTEEN: The Latin Side of Madison Avenue: Marketing and the Language that Makes Us “Hispanics”......Page 428
CHAPTER SIXTEEN: Eating in Cuban......Page 442
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: Taking “Class” Into Account: Dance, the Studio, and Latino Culture......Page 466
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: Deceptive Solidity: Public Signs, Civic Inclusion, and Language Rights in New York City (and Beyond)......Page 490