Latinx Belonging

• ContentsForeword by Pierrette Hondagneu-SoteloAcknowledgmentIntroduction: Latinx Belonging and Struggles for InclusionJennifer Bickham Mendez and Natalia Deeb-SossaPart I. Intersectional Latinidades, Resilience, and Community Building1. Ethnorace and the OrientaciÓn of Unaccompanied, Undocumented Indigenous Youth in Latinx Los AngelesStephanie L. Canizales2. Resilience in the Time of a Pandemic: COVID-19, LGBTQ+ Latinx Activism, and the Politics of BelongingNolan Kline, AndrÉs Acosta, Christopher Cuevas, and Marco Antonio Quiroga3. No Choice but Unity: Afro-Cuban Immigrants Building Community in Los AngelesMonika GosinPart II. Finding Home and Claiming Place Through Familia4. Mujeres Luchadoras: Latina Immigrant Women’s Homemaking Practices to Assert Belonging in a Philadelphia SuburbVerÓnica Montes5. Creating Home, Claiming Place: Latina Immigrant Mothers and the Production of BelongingJennifer Bickham Mendez and Natalia Deeb-Sossa6. Finding Home / Haciendo Familia: Testimonios of Mexican Male Farmworkers in Central CaliforniaYvette G. FloresPart III. Resistance Through Claims-Making and Cultural Expression7. Belonging and Vulnerability in San Francisco: Undocumented Latinx Parents and Local Claims-MakingMelanie Jones Gast, Dina Okamoto, and Jack “Trey” Allen8. Strategic (Il)legibility: The Marginalization and Resistance of Latina Community-Engaged Artists in ChicagoMichael De Anda MuÑiz9. Dance in the Desert: Latinx Bodies in Movement Beyond BordersMichelle TÉllez and Yvonne Montoya10. A City of Puentes: Latina/o Cross-Generational Memories and Organizing in the 2016–17 Struggle for SanctuaryGilda L. OchoaPart IV. Concluding Thoughts11. Latinx Belonging and Solidarity in the Twenty-First Century: (Re)Constructing the Meaning of Community in the Era of COVID-19Suzanne ObolerContributorsIndex

“In Latinx Belonging, Natalia Deeb-Sossa and Jennifer Bickham Mendez have produced a timely edited volume that brings together an impressive range of contributions from emerging and established scholars in the interdisciplinary field of Latinx studies. Latinx Belonging shines a light on Latinx strategies for community building, belonging, and joy in the face of anti-Latinx, nativist, and white supremacist violence and exclusion. This volume offers historically informed scholarship that highlights contemporary trends in both oppression and resistance, while also attending to the problematic glossing over of inter-Latinx difference and ways that whiteness is often reproduced through Latinidad. This volume will be a great resource for educators in Latinx studies and adjacent fields.” —Maurice MagaÑa, University of Arizona“The term Latinx has gained additional traction in recent years, given adopters’ goals for more inclusive terminology to describe our community. The chapters in this extraordinary and timely collection provide depth in the intersectional identities of Latinx peoples in the United States who are women-identified, queer, trans, undocumented, Black, and/or Indigenous. They offer important insights into the materiality of their experiences as well as abundant hope in considering the resistance and creativity present in the processes of community building.”—Francisco Villegas, co-editor of Critical Schooling: Transformative Theory and Practice