Melvin Delgado
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- January 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780195301182
- eISBN:
- 9780199863679
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195301182.001.0001
- Subject:
- Social Work, Communities and Organizations
Despite evidence showing Latinos to be among the fastest growing populations in the US, very little attention has been given to practice with Latino individuals, families, and communities. Beginning ...
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Despite evidence showing Latinos to be among the fastest growing populations in the US, very little attention has been given to practice with Latino individuals, families, and communities. Beginning with a comprehensive definition and demographic map of Latinos, Latino culture, and a cultural asset paradigm, this book identifies strategies for designing culturally relevant programs and services. Chapters highlight health and social concerns including issues surrounding gender, religion, language, immigration, substance abuse, and health conditions. More importantly, the chapters also outline a practice framework that places cultural assets at the center. The book provides a rich paradigm for understanding perspectives on culture, access, assets, and how they intersect to inform best practices. The step-by-step framework guides through six stages: pre-contact assessment, initial contact and asset identification, resource mapping, relationship building, intervention, and evaluation. Each stage is heavily grounded in theoretical and socio-political considerations with particular attention to thinking critically about selecting best practices and how to sustain an evidence-based practice.Less
Despite evidence showing Latinos to be among the fastest growing populations in the US, very little attention has been given to practice with Latino individuals, families, and communities. Beginning with a comprehensive definition and demographic map of Latinos, Latino culture, and a cultural asset paradigm, this book identifies strategies for designing culturally relevant programs and services. Chapters highlight health and social concerns including issues surrounding gender, religion, language, immigration, substance abuse, and health conditions. More importantly, the chapters also outline a practice framework that places cultural assets at the center. The book provides a rich paradigm for understanding perspectives on culture, access, assets, and how they intersect to inform best practices. The step-by-step framework guides through six stages: pre-contact assessment, initial contact and asset identification, resource mapping, relationship building, intervention, and evaluation. Each stage is heavily grounded in theoretical and socio-political considerations with particular attention to thinking critically about selecting best practices and how to sustain an evidence-based practice.
Michelle A. Gonzalez
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780813029979
- eISBN:
- 9780813039343
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813029979.003.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Latin American Studies
This book examines the intersection of Afro-Cuban and Latino/a culture and religiosity through the study of a particular group, the Cuban-American community. It proposes a theological analysis of the ...
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This book examines the intersection of Afro-Cuban and Latino/a culture and religiosity through the study of a particular group, the Cuban-American community. It proposes a theological analysis of the everyday faith of Cuban-Americans, informed by the political, cultural, and economic markers that characterize this community and explains that the underlying thesis of this study is that Afro-Cuban culture saturates Cuban culture. It examines the notion of identity within Afro-Cuban and Latino/a theologies, explores Cuban-American theology and discusses Cuban and Cuban-American identities, both historical and contemporary.Less
This book examines the intersection of Afro-Cuban and Latino/a culture and religiosity through the study of a particular group, the Cuban-American community. It proposes a theological analysis of the everyday faith of Cuban-Americans, informed by the political, cultural, and economic markers that characterize this community and explains that the underlying thesis of this study is that Afro-Cuban culture saturates Cuban culture. It examines the notion of identity within Afro-Cuban and Latino/a theologies, explores Cuban-American theology and discusses Cuban and Cuban-American identities, both historical and contemporary.
Michelle A. Gonzalez
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780813029979
- eISBN:
- 9780813039343
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813029979.003.0008
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Latin American Studies
This concluding chapter sums up the key findings of this study on the intersection of Afro-Cuban and Latino/a culture and religiosity. The results reveal the centrality of Afro-Cuban religiosity and ...
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This concluding chapter sums up the key findings of this study on the intersection of Afro-Cuban and Latino/a culture and religiosity. The results reveal the centrality of Afro-Cuban religiosity and culture for understanding the Cuban/Cuban-American condition. The findings also indicate that this Afro-Cuban saturation of Cuban and Cuban-American life goes well beyond race to affect all Cubans and Cuban-Americans despite their pigmentation or self-identification.Less
This concluding chapter sums up the key findings of this study on the intersection of Afro-Cuban and Latino/a culture and religiosity. The results reveal the centrality of Afro-Cuban religiosity and culture for understanding the Cuban/Cuban-American condition. The findings also indicate that this Afro-Cuban saturation of Cuban and Cuban-American life goes well beyond race to affect all Cubans and Cuban-Americans despite their pigmentation or self-identification.
Antonio López
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814765463
- eISBN:
- 9780814765487
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814765463.003.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Cultural Studies
This chapter explores the fragments arrachés of Alberto O'Farrill—the black writer and actor who appeared on the teatro bufo (Cuban minstrelsy) stage and in the New York City Latino newspapers La ...
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This chapter explores the fragments arrachés of Alberto O'Farrill—the black writer and actor who appeared on the teatro bufo (Cuban minstrelsy) stage and in the New York City Latino newspapers La Prensa and El Gráfico from the 1920s to the 1930s. O'Farrill's arrival in the United States via Key West seemingly allowed him a career in the transnational teatro bufo, which was then a belated form of troubling racial representation. The traces in La Prensa of O'Farrill's “negro-on-negro” performances display an awareness of his afrolatinidad. In his own autobiographical-fictional writings in Gráfico, O'Farrill explains how he produces an Afro-Latino “blackface print culture” that conflicts with the culturalist, postracial assumptions of a raza hispana (Hispanic race). The chapter concludes with a review of O'Farrill's performance in No matarás (Thou Shalt Not Kill).Less
This chapter explores the fragments arrachés of Alberto O'Farrill—the black writer and actor who appeared on the teatro bufo (Cuban minstrelsy) stage and in the New York City Latino newspapers La Prensa and El Gráfico from the 1920s to the 1930s. O'Farrill's arrival in the United States via Key West seemingly allowed him a career in the transnational teatro bufo, which was then a belated form of troubling racial representation. The traces in La Prensa of O'Farrill's “negro-on-negro” performances display an awareness of his afrolatinidad. In his own autobiographical-fictional writings in Gráfico, O'Farrill explains how he produces an Afro-Latino “blackface print culture” that conflicts with the culturalist, postracial assumptions of a raza hispana (Hispanic race). The chapter concludes with a review of O'Farrill's performance in No matarás (Thou Shalt Not Kill).
Adams Rachel
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- February 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780226005515
- eISBN:
- 9780226005539
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226005539.003.0007
- Subject:
- Literature, American, 20th Century Literature
This chapter focuses on Verdecchia, who situates his reflections in a decidedly Canadian context where borders have a very different resonance, and where allusions to Latino and Latin American ...
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This chapter focuses on Verdecchia, who situates his reflections in a decidedly Canadian context where borders have a very different resonance, and where allusions to Latino and Latin American cultures have very little resonance at all. Although his work is influenced by the art and politics of U.S. Chicano, he is wary of the tendency to conflate all Latino border cultures with the U.S.–Mexico borderlands, and the erasure of Canada from accounts of inter-American culture that focus exclusively on relations between the United States and Latin America. By introducing Canadian characters and settings, his work gives new coordinates for locating “El Norte,” while at the same time disrupting the binary between north and south with a necessary third term.Less
This chapter focuses on Verdecchia, who situates his reflections in a decidedly Canadian context where borders have a very different resonance, and where allusions to Latino and Latin American cultures have very little resonance at all. Although his work is influenced by the art and politics of U.S. Chicano, he is wary of the tendency to conflate all Latino border cultures with the U.S.–Mexico borderlands, and the erasure of Canada from accounts of inter-American culture that focus exclusively on relations between the United States and Latin America. By introducing Canadian characters and settings, his work gives new coordinates for locating “El Norte,” while at the same time disrupting the binary between north and south with a necessary third term.
Samuel K. Byrd
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781479859405
- eISBN:
- 9781479876426
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479859405.003.0001
- Subject:
- Anthropology, American and Canadian Cultural Anthropology
This introductory chapter provides the background of study of Latina/o musicians in Charlotte, North Carolina. These musicians and their audiences play a vital role in defining Latino expressive ...
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This introductory chapter provides the background of study of Latina/o musicians in Charlotte, North Carolina. These musicians and their audiences play a vital role in defining Latino expressive culture. Moreover, their lives also reveal issues of politics, labor, community, class, division, and belonging that have become central to a globalizing region and city that are struggling to decide how wide the circle of “We” should be. In particular, the theme of el sueño gris (the gray dream) described the trajectory of the dreams and aspirations of Latino immigrants to the U.S. South. Examples of this graying dream appeared in personal narratives of Latino musicians during informal conversations and recorded interviews throughout the fieldwork process.Less
This introductory chapter provides the background of study of Latina/o musicians in Charlotte, North Carolina. These musicians and their audiences play a vital role in defining Latino expressive culture. Moreover, their lives also reveal issues of politics, labor, community, class, division, and belonging that have become central to a globalizing region and city that are struggling to decide how wide the circle of “We” should be. In particular, the theme of el sueño gris (the gray dream) described the trajectory of the dreams and aspirations of Latino immigrants to the U.S. South. Examples of this graying dream appeared in personal narratives of Latino musicians during informal conversations and recorded interviews throughout the fieldwork process.
Samuel K. Byrd
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781479859405
- eISBN:
- 9781479876426
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479859405.003.0003
- Subject:
- Anthropology, American and Canadian Cultural Anthropology
This chapter reconstructs, through oral history and personal networks observed in study, the brief history of Latino musicians in Charlotte. While other Latin music scenes have emerged in U.S. ...
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This chapter reconstructs, through oral history and personal networks observed in study, the brief history of Latino musicians in Charlotte. While other Latin music scenes have emerged in U.S. cities, Charlotte is notable for the diversity of the musical styles being performed there and the intense debates musicians are having about the future of Latino culture. Relying on scholarship on music and cultural studies, the chapter also examines the threads connecting U.S., southern, and Latin American music(s) together up to the early twenty-first century. It outlines the bands that are the focus of this book and describes their musical style.Less
This chapter reconstructs, through oral history and personal networks observed in study, the brief history of Latino musicians in Charlotte. While other Latin music scenes have emerged in U.S. cities, Charlotte is notable for the diversity of the musical styles being performed there and the intense debates musicians are having about the future of Latino culture. Relying on scholarship on music and cultural studies, the chapter also examines the threads connecting U.S., southern, and Latin American music(s) together up to the early twenty-first century. It outlines the bands that are the focus of this book and describes their musical style.
Vanessa Pérez Rosario
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- April 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780252038969
- eISBN:
- 9780252096921
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5406/illinois/9780252038969.003.0006
- Subject:
- Literature, Women's Literature
This chapter highlights the multiple ways in which Burgos's legacy extends into visual culture and El Barrio neighborhood in East Harlem. In the act of remembering Julia de Burgos, visual artists are ...
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This chapter highlights the multiple ways in which Burgos's legacy extends into visual culture and El Barrio neighborhood in East Harlem. In the act of remembering Julia de Burgos, visual artists are less concerned with finding the “true” Julia; rather, they create sites of memory that are at once collective and individual. As Burgos emerged as an icon specific to New York Latino/a culture, remembering her became one of the memory circuits mapping the migratory routes of New York Latino/a cosmopolitan networks. The chapter then charts the course of Burgos's iconography, mapping the migratory trajectories and circulation of her influence from New York to Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic and consequently offering insight into New York Latino/a cultural production.Less
This chapter highlights the multiple ways in which Burgos's legacy extends into visual culture and El Barrio neighborhood in East Harlem. In the act of remembering Julia de Burgos, visual artists are less concerned with finding the “true” Julia; rather, they create sites of memory that are at once collective and individual. As Burgos emerged as an icon specific to New York Latino/a culture, remembering her became one of the memory circuits mapping the migratory routes of New York Latino/a cosmopolitan networks. The chapter then charts the course of Burgos's iconography, mapping the migratory trajectories and circulation of her influence from New York to Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic and consequently offering insight into New York Latino/a cultural production.
Robert Lemon
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- January 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780252042454
- eISBN:
- 9780252051296
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5622/illinois/9780252042454.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Latin American Studies
When primarily immigrant, day-laboring clientele eat a meal at a traditional taco truck, the taco truck becomes a significant social space in which Mexican cultural identity is reaffirmed. But the ...
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When primarily immigrant, day-laboring clientele eat a meal at a traditional taco truck, the taco truck becomes a significant social space in which Mexican cultural identity is reaffirmed. But the traditional taco truck is also a politically charged symbolic space that can spark heated debates about Latino culture and the uses of street spaces in cities. This book uses the taco truck as a vehicle to tell a story about the Mexican American experience and identity and deconstructs the myriad meanings taco trucks represent to diverse community groups and how such meanings influence urban politics and the built environment. The traditional taco truck is a powerfully transformative feature of the American landscape because the trucks’ social spaces intersect with complex geographic processes of immigration, class, ethnicity, gentrification, commodification, food-ways, and the right to public space. Thus the book is also about power, privilege, and the political economy of cities and the novel ways marginalized Mexican immigrants take and remake urban space through their food practices. Through investigating taco trucks in various U.S. metropolises, this book elucidates the ways neoliberal cities work and how Mexican immigrants claim their right to the city.Less
When primarily immigrant, day-laboring clientele eat a meal at a traditional taco truck, the taco truck becomes a significant social space in which Mexican cultural identity is reaffirmed. But the traditional taco truck is also a politically charged symbolic space that can spark heated debates about Latino culture and the uses of street spaces in cities. This book uses the taco truck as a vehicle to tell a story about the Mexican American experience and identity and deconstructs the myriad meanings taco trucks represent to diverse community groups and how such meanings influence urban politics and the built environment. The traditional taco truck is a powerfully transformative feature of the American landscape because the trucks’ social spaces intersect with complex geographic processes of immigration, class, ethnicity, gentrification, commodification, food-ways, and the right to public space. Thus the book is also about power, privilege, and the political economy of cities and the novel ways marginalized Mexican immigrants take and remake urban space through their food practices. Through investigating taco trucks in various U.S. metropolises, this book elucidates the ways neoliberal cities work and how Mexican immigrants claim their right to the city.
Steven Loza
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- September 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781496816023
- eISBN:
- 9781496816061
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781496816023.003.0007
- Subject:
- Music, History, American
This chapter takes an in-depth look at a significant aspect of Wilson's life and music, that of Latino culture. Wilson met and soon married Josefina Villaseñor in 1948. They had three children, and ...
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This chapter takes an in-depth look at a significant aspect of Wilson's life and music, that of Latino culture. Wilson met and soon married Josefina Villaseñor in 1948. They had three children, and Wilson titled compositions after each of them. The importance of family, especially as it plays a major role in Latin American and African American culture, has in many ways sculpted the artistic and spiritual profile of Wilson. His marriage to Josefina not only changed his personal life but also changed much of the cultural context that had always been such an essential element in his artistic enculturation and creative approach and output.Less
This chapter takes an in-depth look at a significant aspect of Wilson's life and music, that of Latino culture. Wilson met and soon married Josefina Villaseñor in 1948. They had three children, and Wilson titled compositions after each of them. The importance of family, especially as it plays a major role in Latin American and African American culture, has in many ways sculpted the artistic and spiritual profile of Wilson. His marriage to Josefina not only changed his personal life but also changed much of the cultural context that had always been such an essential element in his artistic enculturation and creative approach and output.