"This contributed reader will introduce students to the variety and complexity of Latinxs' experiences in the U.S., and prepare them for further study in this interdisciplinary field. The opening essay, written by the editors, will offer a broad overviewof the approximately 59 million people in the U.S. who identify as Hispanic. The rest of the book will consist of approximately 20 contributed readings from Latina(o)/Chicana(o) scholars on a range of subjects including immigration, citizenship, and deportation; racial identities; political participation and power; educational and economic achievement; family; religion; media and popular culture. Although the essays will be written for lower-division undergraduates, they will reflect many of the leading theoretical and methodological approaches in the field. The essays will be unified by an intersectional approach, demonstrating how experiences and life chances of Latinxs are also shaped by gender, social class, sexuality, age, and citizenship status"--
This reader introduces students to the variety and complexity of Latinxs' experiences in the U.S., and prepares them for further study in this interdisciplinary field. Contributed essays from Latina(o)/Chicana(o) scholars explore a range of subjects including immigration, citizenship, and deportation; racial identities; political participation and power; educational and economic achievement; family; religion; media and popular culture. .
Reading 1.1: Race and Latinxs in the United States - Maria Joaquina
Villaseńor
Reading 1.2: The Racial Coding of Latinx Subjectivity in the Debate
Surrounding Arizonas SB 1070 - Nick J. Sciullo
Reading 1.3: Manhood in Context - Mrinal Sinha
Reading 1.4: Latinx, Identities, and the Matter of Choice (Or More Simply,
All Identities are Chosenwith Consequences) - Carmen R. Lugo-Lugo
Reading 1.5: Are Brazilians Latinx? Historical and Sociological
Considerations - Joćo B. Chaves, Rodrigo Serrćo
Reading 1.6: I always get deleted from the analysis: Multiracial Latinx
students navigating racial/ethnic identity - Sylvia Martinez, Amy J. Nuńez
Reading 2.1: Intersectional Vulnerability: Fragmented, Racialized, and
Criminalized Illegality Among Mexican Undocumented Women in the U.S. - Heidy
Sarabia, Laura Zaragoza, Jannet Esparza
Reading 2.2: The Latino Male Threat: An Intersectional Assessment of
Racialized and Gendered US Migration Control Strategies. - Mercedes Valadez
Reading 2.3: (Un)Documented Narratives: Immigration Policies, Trauma Porn,
and Migration Stories - Roxana A. Curiel
Readings 2.4: Essential Workers or Sacrificial Labor? Applying the Concept
of Racial Capitalism to Mexican Immigrant Farm Workers Disposability during
the COVID-19 Pandemic - Mayra Puente
Readings 2.5: Empacadoras: The Hidden Labor of Mexican Women in the Salinas
Valley - Ruben Espinoza
Reading 2.6: Guatemalan Islet in Koreatown - Halyna Lemekh
Reading 2.7: Igniting Political Representation in Times of Threatening
Rhetoric: Voices from Latinas of Immigrant Origin - Jessica
Rodriguez-Montegna
Reading 2.8: Latin Americans in Australia: Reconfiguring Community and the
Visa as a Constitutive Factor of Migrant Identity - Rafael Azeredo, Robert
Mason
Readings 2.9: The Afro-Colombian Experience on the Pacific Coast of Colombia:
Intersections of Structural Processes - Ana M. Mina Hernįndez
Reading 3.1: Brains and Brawn in Latino Film: McFarland, USA and Spare Parts
- Carolina Rocha
Reading 3.2: From Good Immigrant to Undesirable Refugee: Controlling
Metaphors and the role of race and racism in the shifting (un)desirability of
Cuban refugees in U.S. media - Jamie L. Palmer-Asemota
Reading 3.3: Spiderman in the Rhizome: Miles Morales as more-than-human -
Daniel Morales Morales
Reading 3.4: A Confluence of Gestures: Negotiating Queer Latinx Home Space on
Vida - Tisha Marie Reichle-Aguilera
Reading 4.1: Black and Latinx Communities in America: Building Coalitions and
Alliances - Samina Hadi-Tabassum
Reading 4.2: Language Matters: Experiences of Aggressions, Resistance, and
Perseverance in Education - Melissa J. Cuba, Rachel F. Gómez, Luciana C. de
Oliveira
Reading 4.3: Carving Alternative Learning Sites as Resistance of Latinx
Teachers in K-12 Settings - Izamar d. Ortiz-Gonzįlez
Reading 4.4: Oh, thats the Homie: A praxis of resiliency, accountability,
kinship, and defiance - Robert G. Unzueta II, Rudy Medina
Reading 4.5 Emotive Alchemies: Forging US Central American Student Activism,
Curriculum and Community at CSU Fullerton and Beyond - Mario Alberto Obando
Reading 5.1 Indigenous Spirituality: Rehumanizing Brown and Indigenous Men -
Juvenal Caporale
Reading 5.2 The MILPA Collective: A Pedagogy of Ganas - Juan Gómez, Veronica
"Ronnie" Miramontes, Rosaura Figueroa Mendoza, Alexis Magdaleno
Reading 5.3 Activating Ambiguity in Police Encounters: How Latinas/os/x
Deploy Bodily Capital and What it Means for Cross-racial Solidarity - Cynthia
Martķnez, Sarah Trocchio
Reading 6.1 Manos Que Enseńan [ Hands That Teach]: Mexicana Campesina Mothers
and Their Children Enacting the Pedagogies of Barbiar - Rosalinda Godinez
Reading 6.2 Collective Survival, Love, and Resistance: The Spiritual Activism
of Latina Undergraduate Daughters from Mixed Status Immigrant Families. -
Brianna Ramirez
Reading 6.3 (De)constructing the Latina Immigrant Mother Narrative and
Challenging the Dichotomist Perspective of marianismo and the unfit
Immigrant Mother - Ruby Osoria
Reading 6.4: Together again: Challenges Encountered by Central American
Mothers Upon Reunification with their Children - Sandra B. Castro
Reading 6.5: Navigating Concealable Stigmatized Identities and Status
Disclosure Among Members of Latinx Mixed-Status Families - Gabriela Muńoz de
Zubiria, Eric Chen
Reading 6.6: The Lived Religion of Mexican Immigrant Women - Betsabeth Monica
Lugo
Reading 7.1: Radical Self-Love: A Spiritual and Visionary Everyday Practice
of Resistance by Latina Women - Christine Elizabeth Rosales
Reading 7.2: Demostración de la Lucha, Resistencia y Esperanza: Puerto Rican
Women Student Activists at Rutgers University-New Brunswick - Merylou
Rodriguez
Reading 7.3: The Latinx Experience: Breaking Through the Shadows of
Oppression: A DACAmented Testimonio - Julia Guadalupe Cuevas Guerra
Reading 7.4: Joterķa Power: Transforming Language, Activism, and Knowledge -
Xamuel Bańales
Reading 8.1: A History of Latinxs in Heritage Preservation - Barry L.
Stiefel
Reading 8.2: Nuancing Latinidad Through Visual Testimonios in a Women of
Color Archive: Latina Girls and Matriarchs as Knowledge Producers - Wendy
Barrales
Reading 8.3: Poco a Poco Se Anda Lejos: Analyzing the Concept of Community
Cultural Wealth through Dichos - Liliana V Rodriguez
Reading 8.4: Latinx Food Cultures and Identities: Racialized Bodies and
Culinary Borders - Hortencia Jimenez
Reading 8.5: Beginning and Ending with Borders: Abolition and Latinx Futures
- Omar Davila Jr.