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Latina/o/x places exist as both tangible physical phenomena and
gatherings created and maintained by creative cultural practices.
In this collection, an interdisciplinary group of contributors
critically examines the many ways that varied Latina/o/x
communities cohere through cultural expression. Authors consider
how our embodied experiences of place, together with our histories
and knowledge, inform our imagination and reimagination of our
surroundings in acts of placemaking. This placemaking often
considers environmental sustainability as it helps to sustain
communities in the face of xenophobia and racism through cultural
expression ranging from festivals to zines to sanctuary movements.
It emerges not only in specific locations but as movement within
and between sites; not only as part of a built environment, but
also as an aesthetic practice; and not only because of efforts by
cultural, political, and institutional leaders, but through mass
media and countless human interactions. A rare and crucial
perspective on Latina/o/x people in the Midwest, Building
Sustainable Worlds reveals how expressive culture contributes to,
and sustains, a sense of place in an uncertain era.
2018 Outstanding Academic Title, given by CHOICE Magazine
Introduces key terms, concepts, debates, and histories for Latinx
Studies Keywords for Latina/o Studies is a generative text that
enhances the ongoing dialogue within a rapidly growing and changing
field. The keywords included in this collection represent
established and emergent terms, categories, and concepts that
undergird Latina/o studies; they delineate the shifting contours of
a field best thought of as an intellectual imaginary and
experiential project of social and cultural identities within the
US academy. Bringing together 63 essays, from humanists,
historians, anthropologists, sociologists, among others, each
focused on a single term, the volume reveals the broad range of the
field while also illuminating the tensions and contestations
surrounding issues of language, politics, and histories of
colonization, specific to this area of study. From "borderlands" to
"migration," from "citizenship" to "mestizaje," this accessible
volume will be informative for those who are new to Latina/o
studies, providing them with a mapping of the current debates and a
trajectory of the development of the field, as well as being a
valuable resource for scholars to expand their knowledge and
critical engagement with the dynamic transformations in the field.
Latina/o/x places exist as both tangible physical phenomena and
gatherings created and maintained by creative cultural practices.
In this collection, an interdisciplinary group of contributors
critically examines the many ways that varied Latina/o/x
communities cohere through cultural expression. Authors consider
how our embodied experiences of place, together with our histories
and knowledge, inform our imagination and reimagination of our
surroundings in acts of placemaking. This placemaking often
considers environmental sustainability as it helps to sustain
communities in the face of xenophobia and racism through cultural
expression ranging from festivals to zines to sanctuary movements.
It emerges not only in specific locations but as movement within
and between sites; not only as part of a built environment, but
also as an aesthetic practice; and not only because of efforts by
cultural, political, and institutional leaders, but through mass
media and countless human interactions. A rare and crucial
perspective on Latina/o/x people in the Midwest, Building
Sustainable Worlds reveals how expressive culture contributes to,
and sustains, a sense of place in an uncertain era.
Exploring cultural expressions of Puerto Rican queer migration from
the Caribbean to New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, and San
Francisco, Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes analyzes how artists have
portrayed their lives and the discrimination they have faced in
both Puerto Rico and the United States. Highlighting cultural and
political resistance within Puerto Rico's gay, lesbian, bisexual,
and transgender subcultures, La Fountain-Stokes pays close
attention to differences of gender, historical moment, and
generation, arguing that Puerto Rican queer identity changes over
time and is experienced in very different ways. He traces an arc
from 1960s Puerto Rico and the writings of Luis Rafael Sanchez to
New York City in the 1970s and 1980s (Manuel Ramos Otero),
Philadelphia and New Jersey in the 1980s and 1990s (Luz Maria
Umpierre and Frances Negron-Muntaner), and Chicago (Rose Troche)
and San Francisco (Erika Lopez) in the 1990s, culminating with a
discussion of Arthur Aviles and Elizabeth Marrero's recent
dance-theater work in the Bronx. Proposing a radical new
conceptualization of Puerto Rican migration, this work reveals how
sexuality has shaped and defined the Puerto Rican experience in the
United States.
2018 Outstanding Academic Title, given by CHOICE Magazine
Introduces key terms, concepts, debates, and histories for Latinx
Studies Keywords for Latina/o Studies is a generative text that
enhances the ongoing dialogue within a rapidly growing and changing
field. The keywords included in this collection represent
established and emergent terms, categories, and concepts that
undergird Latina/o studies; they delineate the shifting contours of
a field best thought of as an intellectual imaginary and
experiential project of social and cultural identities within the
US academy. Bringing together 63 essays, from humanists,
historians, anthropologists, sociologists, among others, each
focused on a single term, the volume reveals the broad range of the
field while also illuminating the tensions and contestations
surrounding issues of language, politics, and histories of
colonization, specific to this area of study. From
“borderlands” to “migration,” from “citizenship” to
“mestizaje,” this accessible volume will be informative for
those who are new to Latina/o studies, providing them with a
mapping of the current debates and a trajectory of the development
of the field, as well as being a valuable resource for scholars to
expand their knowledge and critical engagement with the dynamic
transformations in the field.
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