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Record Nr.

UNINA9910621300003321

Titolo

A companion to Latina/o studies [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Juan Flores and Renato Rosaldo

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Blackwell, 2007

ISBN

1-78268-602-9

1-281-06914-0

9786611069148

1-4051-7760-8

0-470-65826-6

0-470-76602-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (556 p.)

Collana

Blackwell companions in cultural studies ; ; 14

Classificazione

02.99

HU 1727

IQ 00010

LB 24610

Altri autori (Persone)

FloresJuan <1943->

RosaldoRenato

Disciplina

305.868073

Soggetti

Hispanic Americans

Electronic books.

United States Race relations Study and teaching

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Notes on Contributors; Editors' Foreword; Acknowledgments; PART ONE Latinidades; CHAPTER ONE Marks of the Chicana Corpus: An Intervention in the Universality Debate; CHAPTER TWO The New Latin Nation: Immigration and the Hispanic Population of the United States; CHAPTER THREE "Dime con quién hablas, y te diré quién eres": Linguistic (In)security and Latina/o Unity; CHAPTER FOUR (Re)constructing Latinidad: The Challenge of Latina/o Studies Frances R. Aparicio; CHAPTER FIVE The Name Game: Locating Latinas/os, Latins, and Latin Americans in the US Popular Music Landscape Deborah Pacini Hernández

CHAPTER SIX Cuando Dios y Usted Quiere: Latina/o Studies Between



Religious Powers and Social Thought David CarrascoCHAPTER SEVEN Latina/o Cultural Expressions: A View of US Society Through the Eyes of the Subaltern Edna Acosta-Belén; PART TWO Actos: Critical Practices; CHAPTER EIGHT José Limón, the Devil and the Dance José E. Limón; CHAPTER NINE The Everyday Civil War: Migrant Labor, Capital, and Latina/o Studies Nicholas De Genova; CHAPTER TEN The Powers of Women's W ords: Oral Tradition and Performance Art Y olanda Broyles-González

CHAPTER ELEVEN Language and Other Lethal Weapons: Cultural Politics and the Rites of Children as T ranslators of Culture Antonia I. CastañedaCHAPTER TWELVE Looking for Papi: Longing and Desire Among Chicano Gay Men T omás Almaguer; CHAPTER THIRTEEN On Becoming Nelly Rosario; PART THREE V idas: Herstories/ Histories; CHAPTER FOURTEEN Of Heretics and Interlopers Arturo Madrid; CHAPTER FIFTEEN Coloring Class: Racial Constructions in Twentieth-Century Chicana/o Historiography V icki L. Ruiz; CHAPTER SIXTEEN "El Louie" by José Montoya: An Appreciation Raúl Villa

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Preservation Matters: Research, Community, and the Archive Chon A. NoriegaCHAPTER EIGHTEEN The Star in My Compass V irginia Sánchez Korrol; 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; PART FOUR En la lucha: Sites of Struggle; CHAPTER TWENTY Latinas/os and the Elusive Quest for Equal Education Sonia Nieto; CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE The Moral Monster: Hispanics Recasting Honor and Respectability Behind Bars Patricia Fernández-Kelly

CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO A Rebellious Philosophy Born in East LA Gerald P. LópezCHAPTER TWENTY-THREE Latinas/os at the Threshold of the Information Age: T elecommunications Challenges and Opportunities Jorge Reina Schement; CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR Conceptualizing the Latina Experience in Care Work Mary Romero; CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE Surviving AIDS in an Uneven World: Latina/o Studies for a Brown Epidemic 1 Carlos Ulises Decena; CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX Post-Movimiento: The Contemporary (Re)Generation of Chicana/o Art T omás Ybarra-Frausto

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

Sommario/riassunto

A Companion to Latina/o Studies is a collection of 40 original essays written by leading scholars in the field, dedicated to exploring the question of what 'Latino/a' is. Brings together in one volume a diverse range of original essays by established and emerging scholars in the field of Latina/o Studies Offers a timely reference to the issues, topics, and approaches to the study of US Latinos - now the largest minority population in the United States Explores the depth of creative scholarship in this field, including theories of latinisimo, immigration,