Overview

The New Latino Studies Reader is designed as a contemporary, updated, multifaceted collection of writings that bring to force the exciting, necessary scholarship of the last decades. Its aim is to introduce a new generation of students to a wide-ranging set of essays that helps them gain a truer understanding of what it’s like to be a Latino in the United States.   With the reader, students explore the sociohistorical formation of Latinos as a distinct panethnic group in the United States, delving into issues of class formation; social stratification; racial, gender, and sexual identities; and politics and cultural production. And while other readers now in print may discuss Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, Cubans and Central Americans as distinct groups with unique experiences, this text explores both the commonalities and the differences that structure the experiences of Latino Americans. Timely, thorough, and thought-provoking, The New Latino Studies Reader provides a genuine view of the Latino experience as a whole.  

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Author:   Ramon A. Gutierrez ,  Tomas Almaguer
Publisher:   University of California Press
Imprint:   University of California Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 5.10cm , Length: 25.40cm
Weight:   1.315kg
ISBN:  

9780520284838

ISBN 10:   0520284836
Pages:   672
Publication Date:   23 August 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Figures and Tables Introduction PART 1: HISPANICS, LATINOS, CHICANOS, BORICUAS: WHAT DO NAMES MEAN? 1. What's in a Name? - Ramon A. Gutierrez 2. (Re)constructing Latinidad - Frances R. Aparicio 3. Celia's Shoes - Frances Negron-Muntaner PART 2: THE ORIGINS OF LATINOS IN THE UNITED STATES 4. The Latino Crucible - Ramon A. Gutierrez 5. A Historic Overview of Latino Immigration and the Demographic Transformation of the United States - David G. Gutierrez 6. Late-Twentieth-Century Immigration and U.S. Foreign Policy - Lillian Guerra PART 3: THE CONUNDRUMS OF RACE 7. Neither White nor Black - Jorge Duany 8. Hair Race-ing - Ginetta E. B. Candelario 9. Race, Racialization, and Latino Populations in the United States - Tomas Almaguer PART 4: WORK AND LIFE CHANCES 10. Mexicans' Quotidian Struggles with Migration and Poverty - Patricia Zavella 11. Economies of Dignity - Nicholas de Genova and Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas 12. Not So Golden? - Manuel Pastor Jr. PART 5: CLASS, GENERATION, AND ASSIMILATION 13. Latino Lives - Luis Ricardo Fraga et al. 14. Generations of Exclusion - Edward Telles and Vilma Ortiz 15. Latinos in the Power Elite - Richard L. Zweigenhaft and G. William Domhoff 16. Postscript - Richard L. Zweigenhaft and G. William Domhoff PART 6: GENDER AND SEXUALITIES 17. A History of Latina/o Sexualities - Ramon A. Gutierrez 18. Gender Strategies, Settlement, and Transnational Life in the First Generation - Robert Courtney Smith 19. She's Old School like That - Lorena Garcia 20. Longing and Same-Sex Desire among Mexican Men - Tomas Almaguer PART 7: LATINO POLITICS 21. Latina/o Politics and Participation - Lisa Garcia Bedolla 22. Young Latinos in an Aging American Society - David E. Hayes-Bautista, Werner Schink, and Jorge Chapa 23. Afterword - David E. Hayes-Bautista, Werner Schink, and Jorge Chapa 24. Life after Prison for Hispanics - Martin Guevara Urbina 25. Climate of Fear - Southern Poverty Law Center 26. What Explains the Immigrant Rights Marches of 2006? - Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo and Angelica Salas 27. Wet Foot, Dry Foot ... Wrong Foot - Ann Louise Bardach Contributors Credits Index

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Ramon A. Gutierrez is Preston and Sterling Morton Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago and the author of When Jesus Came the Corn Mothers Went Away: Marriage, Sexuality, and Power in New Mexico, 1500-1846. Tomas Almaguer is Professor of Ethnic Studies and former Dean of the College of Ethnic Studies at San Francisco State University and the author of Racial Fault Lines: The Historical Origins of White Supremacy in California.

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