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Technofuturos offers a critical and innovative exploration of the
forms of representation found in Latina/o studies. The editors,
Nancy Raquel Mirabal and Agustin Lao-Montes, challenge conventional
notions of Latina/o identities, histories, and cultures by
historicizing and differentiating the multiple discourses of
Latinidad. The essays examine the temporality and spatiality of
socio-historical processes, the multiple and varied constellations
of power, and the complicated geographies of desire. By analyzing
the discursive, performative, and aesthetic dimensions of
knowledge, this book contests and reconstructs Latina/o studies.
Technofuturos is a captivating and sophisticated read that will
appeal to scholars of Latina/o studies and those interested in
postcolonial critique.
Technofuturos offers a critical and innovative exploration of the
forms of representation found in Latina/o studies. The editors,
Nancy Raquel Mirabal and Agustin La-Montes, challenge conventional
notions of Latina/o identities, histories, and cultures by
historicizing and differentiating the multiple discourses of
Latinidad. The essays examine the temporality and spatiality of
socio-historical processes, the multiple and varied constellations
of power, and the complicated geographies of desire. By analyzing
the discursive, performative, and aesthetic dimensions of
knowledge, this book contests and reconstructs Latina/o studies.
Technofuturos is a captivating and sophisticated read that will
appeal to scholars of Latina/o studies and those interested in
postcolonial critique.
Beginning in the early nineteenth century, Cubans migrated to New
York City to organize and protest against Spanish colonial rule.
While revolutionary wars raged in Cuba, expatriates envisioned,
dissected, and redefined meanings of independence and nationhood.
An underlying element was the concept of Cubanidad, a shared sense
of what it meant to be Cuban. Deeply influenced by discussions of
slavery, freedom, masculinity, and United States imperialism, the
question of what and who constituted "being Cuban" remained in flux
and often, suspect. The first book to explore Cuban racial and
sexual politics in New York during the nineteenth and twentieth
centuries, Suspect Freedoms chronicles the largely unexamined and
often forgotten history of more than a hundred years of Cuban
exile, migration, diaspora, and community formation. Nancy Raquel
Mirabal delves into the rich cache of primary sources, archival
documents, literary texts, club records, newspapers, photographs,
and oral histories to write what Michel Rolph Trouillot has termed
an "unthinkable history." Situating this pivotal era within larger
theoretical discussions of potential, future, visibility, and
belonging, Mirabal shows how these transformations complicated
meanings of territoriality, gender, race, power, and labor. She
argues that slavery, nation, and the fear that Cuba would become
"another Haiti" were critical in the making of early diasporic
Cubanidades, and documents how, by the late nineteenth and early
twentieth centuries, Afro-Cubans were authors of their own
experiences; organizing movements, publishing texts, and
establishing important political, revolutionary, and social clubs.
Meticulously documented and deftly crafted, Suspect Freedoms
unravels a nuanced and vital history.
Beginning in the early nineteenth century, Cubans migrated to New
York City to organize and protest against Spanish colonial rule.
While revolutionary wars raged in Cuba, expatriates envisioned,
dissected, and redefined meanings of independence and nationhood.
An underlying element was the concept of Cubanidad, a shared sense
of what it meant to be Cuban. Deeply influenced by discussions of
slavery, freedom, masculinity, and United States imperialism, the
question of what and who constituted "being Cuban" remained in flux
and often, suspect. The first book to explore Cuban racial and
sexual politics in New York during the nineteenth and twentieth
centuries, Suspect Freedoms chronicles the largely unexamined and
often forgotten history of more than a hundred years of Cuban
exile, migration, diaspora, and community formation. Nancy Raquel
Mirabal delves into the rich cache of primary sources, archival
documents, literary texts, club records, newspapers, photographs,
and oral histories to write what Michel Rolph Trouillot has termed
an "unthinkable history." Situating this pivotal era within larger
theoretical discussions of potential, future, visibility, and
belonging, Mirabal shows how these transformations complicated
meanings of territoriality, gender, race, power, and labor. She
argues that slavery, nation, and the fear that Cuba would become
"another Haiti" were critical in the making of early diasporic
Cubanidades, and documents how, by the late nineteenth and early
twentieth centuries, Afro-Cubans were authors of their own
experiences; organizing movements, publishing texts, and
establishing important political, revolutionary, and social clubs.
Meticulously documented and deftly crafted, Suspect Freedoms
unravels a nuanced and vital history.
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.
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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