Freighted with meaning, "el barrio" is both place and metaphor
for Latino populations in the United States. Though it has
symbolized both marginalization and robust and empowered
communities, the construct of el barrio has often reproduced static
understandings of Latino life; they fail to account for recent
demographic shifts in urban centers such as New York, Chicago,
Miami, and Los Angeles, and in areas outside of these historic
communities.
Beyond El Barrio features new scholarship that critically
interrogates how Latinos are portrayed in media, public policy and
popular culture, as well as the material conditions in which
different Latina/o groups build meaningful communities both within
and across national affiliations. Drawing from history, media
studies, cultural studies, and anthropology, the contributors
illustrate how despite the hypervisibility of Latinos and Latin
American immigrants in recent political debates and popular
culture, the daily lives of America's new "majority minority"
remain largely invisible and mischaracterized.
Taken together, these essays provide analyses that not only defy
stubborn stereotypes, but also present novel narratives of Latina/o
communities that do not fit within recognizable categories. In this
way, this book helps us to move "beyond el barrio" beyond
stereotype and stigmatizing tropes, as well as nostalgic and
uncritical portraits of complex and heterogeneous range of Latina/o
lives.
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