Companion to Latina/o Studies

Juan Flores is currently Professor of Latino Studies in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University. For many years he has taught Puerto Rican and Latino Studies at the City University of New York (CUNY) and in the Sociology Program at CUNY Graduate Center. He is the author of Divided Borders, La venganza de Cortijo, From Bomba to Hip-Hop, and Poetry in East Germany, and co-editor of On Edge: The Crisis of Contemporary Latin American Culture. Among his other publications are the translations of Memoirs of Bernardo Vega and Cortijo’s Wake/El entierro de Cortijo by Edgardo Rodríguez Juliá. A Chicano scholar, Renato Rosaldo is Lucy Stern Professor Emeritus at Stanford where he taught for many years, and he now teaches at NYU where he was founding Director of the Latino Studies Program. His books include Ilongot Headhunting, 1883–1974 and Culture and Truth. A collection of his essays, Renato Rosaldo: Ensayos en antropología crítica, was recently published in Mexico. He has edited a collection, Cultural Citizenship in Island Southeast Asia, and also co-edited collections, The Incas and the Aztecs, 1400–1800, Creativity/Anthropology, and The Anthropology of Globalization: A Reader. Written in English and Spanish, his first collection of poetry, Prayer to Spider Woman/Rezo a la mujer araña, won an American Book Award, 2004. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

• Notes on Contributors ixEditors’ Foreword xxiAcknowledgments xxviiPart I Latinidades1 Marks of the Chicana Corpus: An Intervention in the Universality Debate 3Helena María Viramontes2 The New Latin Nation: Immigration and the Hispanic Population of the United States 15Alejandro Portes3 “Dime con quién hablas, y te diré quién eres”: Linguistic (In)security and Latina/o Unity 25Ana Celia Zentella4 (Re)constructing Latinidad: The Challenge of Latina/o Studies 39Frances R. Aparicio5 The Name Game: Locating Latinas/os, Latins, and Latin Americans in the US Popular Music Landscape 49Deborah Pacini Hernández6 Cuando Dios y Usted Quiere: Latina/o Studies Between Religious Powers and Social Thought 60David Carrasco7 Latina/o Cultural Expressions: A View of US Society Through the Eyes of the Subaltern 77Edna Acosta-BelénPart II Actos: Critical Practices8 José Limón, the Devil and the Dance 93José E. Limón9 The Everyday Civil War: Migrant Labor, Capital, and Latina/o Studies 105Nicholas De Genova10 The Powers of Women’s Words: Oral Tradition and Performance Art 116Yolanda Broyles-González11 Language and Other Lethal Weapons: Cultural Politics and the Rites of Children as Translators of Culture 126Antonia I. Castañeda12 Looking for Papi: Longing and Desire Among Chicano Gay Men 138Tomás Almaguer13 On Becoming 151Nelly RosarioPart III Vidas: Herstories/Histories14 Of Heretics and Interlopers 159Arturo Madrid15 Coloring Class: Racial Constructions in Twentieth-Century Chicana/o Historiography 169Vicki L. Ruiz16 “El Louie” by José Montoya: An Appreciation 180Raúl Villa17 Preservation Matters: Research, Community, and the Archive 185Chon A. Noriega18 The Star in My Compass 194Virginia Sánchez Korrol19 “Y Que Pasara Con Jovenes Como Miguel Fernández?” Education, Immigration, and the Future of Latinas/os in the United States 202Pedro A. NogueraPart IV En la lucha: Sites of Struggle20 Latinas/os and the Elusive Quest for Equal Education 217Sonia Nieto21 The Moral Monster: Hispanics Recasting Honor and Respectability Behind Bars 229Patricia Fernández-Kelly22 A Rebellious Philosophy Born in East LA 240Gerald P. López23 Latinas/os at the Threshold of the Information Age: Telecommunications Challenges and Opportunities 251Jorge Reina Schement24 Conceptualizing the Latina Experience in Care Work 264Mary Romero25 Surviving AIDS in an Uneven World: Latina/o Studies for a Brown Epidemic 276Carlos Ulises Decena26 Post-Movimiento: The Contemporary (Re)Generation of Chicana(o) Art 289Tomás Ybarra-Frausto27 “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 297Neil FoleyPart V Mestizaje: Revisiting Race28 Latinas/os and the Mestizo Racial Heritage of Mexican Americans 313Martha Menchaca29 Looking at that Middle Ground: Racial Mixing as Panacea? 325Miriam Jiménez Román30 Color Matters: Latina/o Racial Identities and Life Chances 337Ginetta E. B. Candelario31 Between Blackness and Latinidad in the Hip Hop Zone 351Raquel Z. Rivera32 Afro-Latinas/os and the Racial Wall 363Silvio Torres-Saillant33 The (W)rite to Remember: Indígena as Scribe 2004–5 (an excerpt) 376Cherríe MoragaPart VI Identidades: Producing Subjectivities34 “How I Learned To Love Salseros When My Hair Was A Mess” by Edwin Torres: A Comment 393Edwin Torres35 Reflections on Thirty Years of Critical Practice in Chicana/o Cultural Studies 397Yvonne Yarbro-Bejarano36 Social Aesthetics and the Transnational Imaginary 406Ramón Saldívar37 The Taíno Identity Movement Among Caribbean Latinas/os in the United States 417Gabriel Haslip-Viera38 Looking Good 427Frances Negrón-Muntaner39 “Chico, what does it feel like to be a problem?” The Transmission of Brownness 441José Esteban Muñoz40 “Fantasy Heritage”: Tracking Latina Bloodlines 452Rosa Linda FregosoPart VII En El Mundo: Transnational Connections41 Latinas/os and Latin America: Topics, Destinies, Disciplines 461Román de la Campa42 Latinas/os and the (Re)racializing of US Society and Politics 469Suzanne Oboler43 Refugees or Economic Immigrants? Immigration from Latin America and the Politics of US Refugee Policy 480María Cristina García44 Inter-American Ethnography: Tracking Salvadoran Transnationality at the Borders of Latina/o and Latin American Studies 492Elana Zilberg45 From the Borderlands to the Transnational? Critiquing Empire in the Twenty-First Century 502María Josefina Saldaña-PortilloIndex 513

"[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." (Reference Reviews, April 2009) "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." George J. Sanchez, University of Southern California