{"product_id":"a-companion-to-latinao-studies-9781405126229","title":"A Companion to Latinao Studies","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Companion to Latina\/o Studies\u003c\/i\u003e is a collection of 40 original essays written by leading scholars in the field, dedicated to exploring the question of what ''Latino\/a'' is.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eBrings together in one volume a diverse range of original essays by established and emerging scholars in the field of Latina\/o Studies\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eOffers a timely reference to the issues, topics, and approaches to the study of US Latinos - now the largest minority population in the United States\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eExplores the depth of creative scholarship in this field, including theories of latinisimo, immigration, political and economic perspectives, education, race\/class\/gender and sexuality, language, and religion\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eConsiders areas of broader concern, including history, identity, public representations, cultural expression and racialization (including African and Native American heritage).\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[The] present volume provides researchers and academics with detailed information on a wide range of issues. It offers material for study both to the growing numbers in the academic community undertaking research on Latin American affairs as well as for sociologists in general.... The information to be gleaned from this volume will more than repay the price of £95.\" (\u003ci\u003eReference Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e, April 2009)  \u003cp\u003e\"An amazing collection of original essays that displays the maturity, complexity, and diversity of Latina\/o Studies today. Creative, bold, and provocative, these writings mark the transformation of the field into the hands of a new generation of interdisciplinary scholars.\" \u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e George J. Sanchez, University of Southern California \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eNotes on Contributors ix\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eEditors’ Foreword xxi\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAcknowledgments xxvii\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I Latinidades\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Marks of the Chicana Corpus: An Intervention in the Universality Debate 3\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eHelena María Viramontes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 The New Latin Nation: Immigration and the Hispanic Population of the United States 15\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAlejandro Portes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 “Dime con quién hablas, y te diré quién eres”: Linguistic (In)security and Latina\/o Unity 25\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAna Celia Zentella\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 (Re)constructing Latinidad: The Challenge of Latina\/o Studies 39\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eFrances R. Aparicio\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 The Name Game: Locating Latinas\/os, Latins, and Latin Americans in the US Popular Music Landscape 49\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDeborah Pacini Hernández\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Cuando Dios y Usted Quiere: Latina\/o Studies Between Religious Powers and Social Thought 60\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDavid Carrasco\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Latina\/o Cultural Expressions: A View of US Society Through the Eyes of the Subaltern 77\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eEdna Acosta-Belén\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II Actos: Critical Practices\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 José Limón, the Devil and the Dance 93\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJosé E. Limón\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 The Everyday Civil War: Migrant Labor, Capital, and Latina\/o Studies 105\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNicholas De Genova\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 The Powers of Women’s Words: Oral Tradition and Performance Art 116\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eYolanda Broyles-González\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Language and Other Lethal Weapons: Cultural Politics and the Rites of Children as Translators of Culture 126\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAntonia I. Castañeda\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 Looking for Papi: Longing and Desire Among Chicano Gay Men 138\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eTomás Almaguer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 On Becoming 151\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNelly Rosario\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III Vidas: Herstories\/Histories\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 Of Heretics and Interlopers 159\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eArturo Madrid\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 Coloring Class: Racial Constructions in Twentieth-Century Chicana\/o Historiography 169\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eVicki L. Ruiz\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16 “El Louie” by José Montoya: An Appreciation 180\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRaúl Villa\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17 Preservation Matters: Research, Community, and the Archive 185\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eChon A. Noriega\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18 The Star in My Compass 194\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eVirginia Sánchez Korrol\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19 “Y Que Pasara Con Jovenes Como Miguel Fernández?” Education, Immigration, and the Future of Latinas\/os in the United States 202\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePedro A. Noguera\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV En la lucha: Sites of Struggle\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20 Latinas\/os and the Elusive Quest for Equal Education 217\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSonia Nieto\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21 The Moral Monster: Hispanics Recasting Honor and Respectability Behind Bars 229\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePatricia Fernández-Kelly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22 A Rebellious Philosophy Born in East LA 240\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eGerald P. López\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23 Latinas\/os at the Threshold of the Information Age: Telecommunications Challenges and Opportunities 251\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJorge Reina Schement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e24 Conceptualizing the Latina Experience in Care Work 264\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMary Romero\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e25 Surviving AIDS in an Uneven World: Latina\/o Studies for a Brown Epidemic 276\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eCarlos Ulises Decena\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e26 Post-Movimiento: The Contemporary (Re)Generation of Chicana(o) Art 289\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eTomás Ybarra-Frausto\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e27 “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 297\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNeil Foley\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart V Mestizaje: Revisiting Race\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e28 Latinas\/os and the Mestizo Racial Heritage of Mexican Americans 313\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMartha Menchaca\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e29 Looking at that Middle Ground: Racial Mixing as Panacea? 325\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMiriam Jiménez Román\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e30 Color Matters: Latina\/o Racial Identities and Life Chances 337\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eGinetta E. B. Candelario\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e31 Between Blackness and Latinidad in the Hip Hop Zone 351\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRaquel Z. Rivera\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e32 Afro-Latinas\/os and the Racial Wall 363\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSilvio Torres-Saillant\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e33 The (W)rite to Remember: Indígena as Scribe 2004–5 (an excerpt) 376\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eCherríe Moraga\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart VI Identidades: Producing Subjectivities\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e34 “How I Learned To Love Salseros When My Hair Was A Mess” by Edwin Torres: A Comment 393\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eEdwin Torres\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e35 Reflections on Thirty Years of Critical Practice in Chicana\/o Cultural Studies 397\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eYvonne Yarbro-Bejarano\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e36 Social Aesthetics and the Transnational Imaginary 406\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRamón Saldívar\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e37 The Taíno Identity Movement Among Caribbean Latinas\/os in the United States 417\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eGabriel Haslip-Viera\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e38 Looking Good 427\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eFrances Negrón-Muntaner\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e39 “Chico, what does it feel like to be a problem?” The Transmission of Brownness 441\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJosé Esteban Muñoz\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e40 “Fantasy Heritage”: Tracking Latina Bloodlines 452\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRosa Linda Fregoso\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart VII En El Mundo: Transnational Connections\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e41 Latinas\/os and Latin America: Topics, Destinies, Disciplines 461\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRomán de la Campa\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e42 Latinas\/os and the (Re)racializing of US Society and Politics 469\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSuzanne Oboler\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e43 Refugees or Economic Immigrants? Immigration from Latin America and the Politics of US Refugee Policy 480\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMaría Cristina García\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e44 Inter-American Ethnography: Tracking Salvadoran Transnationality at the Borders of Latina\/o and Latin American Studies 492\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eElana Zilberg\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e45 From the Borderlands to the Transnational? Critiquing Empire in the Twenty-First Century 502\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMaría Josefina Saldaña-Portillo\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIndex 513\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49407864209751,"sku":"9781405126229","price":36.05,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781405126229.jpg?v=1730500780","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-companion-to-latinao-studies-9781405126229","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}