Latino Studies: A 20th Anniversary Reader

TRAMA

This book highlights cutting-edge articles published in the journal, Latino Studies, over the last two decades. It features the work of leading and emerging scholars whose innovative theoretical and conceptual contributions to Latinx studies have shaped scholarly debates in our interdisciplinary field and continue to have an impact. This collection embraces a broad range of topics organized in four sections representative of major themes in Latinx studies including: Latinidades/Identidades, Race/Racialization, Migration/Immigration, and Legality/Citizenship/Belonging.  Latino Studies: A 20th Year Anniversary Reader will be an indispensable resource for students and scholars looking for a robust interdisciplinary introduction to Latinx studies, the pivotal issues and debates that have shaped the field over the recent past, and directions for future research.

SOMMARIO

1. Introduction - Lourdes Torres and Marisa Alicea.- 2. Jennifer as Selena: Rethinking Latinidad in Media and Popular Culture - Frances R. Aparicio.- 3. The Central American Transnational Imaginary: Defining the Transnational and Gendered Contours of Central American Immigrant Experience - Yajaira M. Padilla.- 4. Dora the Explorer, Constructing “Latinidades” and the Politics of Global Citizenship - Nicole M. Guidotti-Hernández.- 5. Making Masculinity: Negotiations of Gender Presentation Among Latino Gay Men - Anthony Ocampo.- 6. “Wild Tongues Can’t be Tamed”: Rumor, Racialized Sexuality, and the 1917 Bath Riots in the US-Mexico Borderlands - Tala Khanmalek.- 7. Inventing the Race: Latinos and the Ethnoracial Pentagon - Silvio Torres-Saillant.- 8. Latinos as the “Living Dead”: Raciality, Expendability, and Border Militarization - John D. Márquez.- 9. TWB (Talking while Bilingual): Linguistic Profiling ofLatina/os, and other Linguistic torquemadas - Ana Celia Zentella.- 10. Critical Latinx Indigeneities: A Paradigm Drift  - María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo.- 11. “Better than White Trash”: Work Ethic, Latinidad and Whiteness in Rural Arkansas - Miranda Cady Hallett.- 12. “I Can’t Go to College Because I Don’t Have Papers”: Incorporation Patterns of Latino Undocumented Youth - Leisy J. Abrego.- 13. The Invisibility of Farmworkers: Implications and Remedies - Ken Saldanha.- 14. Latino Immigrant Men and the Deportation Crisis: A Gendered Racial Removal Program -Tanya Golash-Boza and Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo.- 15. Pursuant to Deportation: Latinos and Immigrant Detention - David Hernández.- 16. Dispatches from the “Viejo” New South: Historicizing Recent Latino Migrations - Julie M. Weise.- 17. The Legal Production of Mexican/Migrant “Illegality” - Nicholas De Genova.- 18. Central American Immigrant Workers and Legal Violence in Phoenix, Arizona - Cecilia Menjíva.- 19. Delinquent Citizenship, National Performances: Racialization, Surveillance, and the Politics of “Worthiness” in Puerto Rican Chicago - Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas.- 20. Beyond Resistance in Dominican American Women’s Fiction: Healing and Growth through the Spectrum of Quietude in Angie Cruz’s Soledad and Naima Coster’s Halsey Street.- Regina Marie Mills.- 21. Disposable Subjects: The Racial Normativity of Neoliberalism and Latino Immigrants - Raymond Rocco      

AUTORE

Lourdes Torres is Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies at DePaul University.  She is editor of Latino Studies and author of Puerto Rican Discourse: A Sociolinguistic Study of a New York Suburb.  Her co-authored book Spanish in Chicago is forthcoming.   Marisa Alicea is Professor of Sociology and an affiliate faculty member of the Latin American and Latino Studies Department at DePaul University. She is co-author of Surviving Heroin: Interviews with Women in Methadone Clinics and co-editor of Migration and Immigration: A Global View. Marisa currently serves an associate editor of Latino Studies. 

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9783031377839
• Dimensioni: 210 x 148 mm
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Illustration Notes: XXV, 588 p. 17 illus.
• Pagine Arabe: 588
• Pagine Romane: xxv