A Companion to Latina/o Studies

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, political and economic perspectives, education, race/class/gender and sexuality, language, and religion Considers areas of broader concern, including history, identity, public representations, cultural expression and racialization (including African and Native American heritage).

Notes on Contributors ix Editors’ Foreword xxi Acknowledgments xxvii Part I Latinidades 1 Marks of the Chicana Corpus: An Intervention in the Universality Debate 3 Helena María Viramontes 2 The New Latin Nation: Immigration and the Hispanic Population of the United States 15 Alejandro Portes 3 “Dime con quién hablas, y te diré quién eres”: Linguistic (In)security and Latina/o Unity 25 Ana Celia Zentella 4 (Re)constructing Latinidad: The Challenge of Latina/o Studies 39 Frances R. Aparicio 5 The Name Game: Locating Latinas/os, Latins, and Latin Americans in the US Popular Music Landscape 49 Deborah Pacini Hernández 6 Cuando Dios y Usted Quiere: Latina/o Studies Between Religious Powers and Social Thought 60 David Carrasco 7 Latina/o Cultural Expressions: A View of US Society Through the Eyes of the Subaltern 77 Edna Acosta-Belén Part II Actos: Critical Practices 8 José Limón, the Devil and the Dance 93 José E. Limón 9 The Everyday Civil War: Migrant Labor, Capital, and Latina/o Studies 105 Nicholas De Genova 10 The Powers of Women’s Words: Oral Tradition and Performance Art 116 Yolanda Broyles-González 11 Language and Other Lethal Weapons: Cultural Politics and the Rites of Children as Translators of Culture 126 Antonia I. Castañeda 12 Looking for Papi: Longing and Desire Among Chicano Gay Men 138 Tomás Almaguer 13 On Becoming 151 Nelly Rosario Part III Vidas: Herstories/Histories 14 Of Heretics and Interlopers 159 Arturo Madrid 15 Coloring Class: Racial Constructions in Twentieth-Century Chicana/o Historiography 169 Vicki L. Ruiz 16 “El Louie” by José Montoya: An Appreciation 180 Raúl Villa 17 Preservation Matters: Research, Community, and the Archive 185 Chon A. Noriega 18 The Star in My Compass 194 Virginia Sánchez Korrol 19 “Y Que Pasara Con Jovenes Como Miguel Fernández?” Education, Immigration, and the Future of Latinas/os in the United States 202 Pedro A. Noguera Part IV En la lucha: Sites of Struggle 20 Latinas/os and the Elusive Quest for Equal Education 217 Sonia Nieto 21 The Moral Monster: Hispanics Recasting Honor and Respectability Behind Bars 229 Patricia Fernández-Kelly 22 A Rebellious Philosophy Born in East LA 240 Gerald P. López 23 Latinas/os at the Threshold of the Information Age: Telecommunications Challenges and Opportunities 251 Jorge Reina Schement 24 Conceptualizing the Latina Experience in Care Work 264 Mary Romero 25 Surviving AIDS in an Uneven World: Latina/o Studies for a Brown Epidemic 276 Carlos Ulises Decena 26 Post-Movimiento: The Contemporary (Re)Generation of Chicana(o) Art 289 Tomás Ybarra-Frausto 27 “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 Neil Foley Part V Mestizaje: Revisiting Race 28 Latinas/os and the Mestizo Racial Heritage of Mexican Americans 313 Martha Menchaca 29 Looking at that Middle Ground: Racial Mixing as Panacea? 325 Miriam Jiménez Román 30 Color Matters: Latina/o Racial Identities and Life Chances 337 Ginetta E. B. Candelario 31 Between Blackness and Latinidad in the Hip Hop Zone 351 Raquel Z. Rivera 32 Afro-Latinas/os and the Racial Wall 363 Silvio Torres-Saillant 33 The (W)rite to Remember: Indígena as Scribe 2004–5 (an excerpt) 376 Cherríe Moraga Part VI Identidades: Producing Subjectivities 34 “How I Learned To Love Salseros When My Hair Was A Mess” by Edwin Torres: A Comment 393 Edwin Torres 35 Reflections on Thirty Years of Critical Practice in Chicana/o Cultural Studies 397 Yvonne Yarbro-Bejarano 36 Social Aesthetics and the Transnational Imaginary 406 Ramón Saldívar 37 The Taíno Identity Movement Among Caribbean Latinas/os in the United States 417 Gabriel Haslip-Viera 38 Looking Good 427 Frances Negrón-Muntaner 39 “Chico, what does it feel like to be a problem?” The Transmission of Brownness 441 José Esteban Muñoz 40 “Fantasy Heritage”: Tracking Latina Bloodlines 452 Rosa Linda Fregoso Part VII En El Mundo: Transnational Connections 41 Latinas/os and Latin America: Topics, Destinies, Disciplines 461 Román de la Campa 42 Latinas/os and the (Re)racializing of US Society and Politics 469 Suzanne Oboler 43 Refugees or Economic Immigrants? Immigration from Latin America and the Politics of US Refugee Policy 480 María Cristina García 44 Inter-American Ethnography: Tracking Salvadoran Transnationality at the Borders of Latina/o and Latin American Studies 492 Elana Zilberg 45 From the Borderlands to the Transnational? Critiquing Empire in the Twenty-First Century 502 María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo Index 513