Eduard Arriaga and Andrés Villar (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- January 2022
- ISBN:
- 9781683402046
- eISBN:
- 9781683402947
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9781683402046.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Latin American Studies
This volume presents examples of how digital technologies are being used by people of African descent in South America and the Caribbean, a topic that has been overlooked within the field of digital ...
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This volume presents examples of how digital technologies are being used by people of African descent in South America and the Caribbean, a topic that has been overlooked within the field of digital humanities. These case studies show that in the last few decades, Black Latinx communities have been making themselves visible and asserting long-standing claims and rights through digital tools and platforms, which have been essential for enacting discussions and creating new connections between diverse groups.
Afro-Latinx Digital Connections includes both research articles and interviews with practitioners who are working to create opportunities for marginalized communities. Projects discussed in this volume range from an Afrodescendant digital archive in Argentina, blog networks in Cuba, an NGO dedicated to democratizing technology in Brazilian favelas, and the recruitment of digital media to fight racism in Peru. Contributors demonstrate that these tools need not be state of the art to be effective and that they are often most useful when employed to sustain a resilience that is deep and historically grounded.
Digital connections are shown here as a means to achieve social justice and to create complex self-representations that challenge racist images of Afrodescendant peoples and monolithic conceptions of humanity. This volume expands the scope of digital humanities and challenges views of the field as a predominantly white discipline.Less
This volume presents examples of how digital technologies are being used by people of African descent in South America and the Caribbean, a topic that has been overlooked within the field of digital humanities. These case studies show that in the last few decades, Black Latinx communities have been making themselves visible and asserting long-standing claims and rights through digital tools and platforms, which have been essential for enacting discussions and creating new connections between diverse groups.
Afro-Latinx Digital Connections includes both research articles and interviews with practitioners who are working to create opportunities for marginalized communities. Projects discussed in this volume range from an Afrodescendant digital archive in Argentina, blog networks in Cuba, an NGO dedicated to democratizing technology in Brazilian favelas, and the recruitment of digital media to fight racism in Peru. Contributors demonstrate that these tools need not be state of the art to be effective and that they are often most useful when employed to sustain a resilience that is deep and historically grounded.
Digital connections are shown here as a means to achieve social justice and to create complex self-representations that challenge racist images of Afrodescendant peoples and monolithic conceptions of humanity. This volume expands the scope of digital humanities and challenges views of the field as a predominantly white discipline.
Suzanne Bost
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- May 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780252042799
- eISBN:
- 9780252051654
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5622/illinois/9780252042799.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Gender Studies
Writing about marginalized lives has the power to shift norms. In telling their own stories, John Rechy, Aurora Levins Morales, Gloria Anzaldúa, and other Latinx writers make visible experiences and ...
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Writing about marginalized lives has the power to shift norms. In telling their own stories, John Rechy, Aurora Levins Morales, Gloria Anzaldúa, and other Latinx writers make visible experiences and bodies that are rarely at the center of the stories we read, and they dramatize the complexity of human agencies and responsibilities. Yet the memoirs this book analyzes move beyond focus on the human as their subjects’ personal histories intertwine with communities, animals, spirits, and the surrounding environment. This interconnectedness resonates with critical developments in posthumanist theory as well as recalling indigenous worldviews that are “other-than-Humanist,” outside of Western intellectual genealogies. Bringing these two frameworks into dialogue with feminist theory, queer theory, disability studies, and ecocriticism enables an expansive way of viewing life itself. Rejecting the structures of Humanism, Shared Selves decenters the individualism of memoir and highlights the webs of relation that mediate experience, agency, and identity.Less
Writing about marginalized lives has the power to shift norms. In telling their own stories, John Rechy, Aurora Levins Morales, Gloria Anzaldúa, and other Latinx writers make visible experiences and bodies that are rarely at the center of the stories we read, and they dramatize the complexity of human agencies and responsibilities. Yet the memoirs this book analyzes move beyond focus on the human as their subjects’ personal histories intertwine with communities, animals, spirits, and the surrounding environment. This interconnectedness resonates with critical developments in posthumanist theory as well as recalling indigenous worldviews that are “other-than-Humanist,” outside of Western intellectual genealogies. Bringing these two frameworks into dialogue with feminist theory, queer theory, disability studies, and ecocriticism enables an expansive way of viewing life itself. Rejecting the structures of Humanism, Shared Selves decenters the individualism of memoir and highlights the webs of relation that mediate experience, agency, and identity.
Ralph E. Rodriguez
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- September 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780823279234
- eISBN:
- 9780823281442
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823279234.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, World Literature
Since the 1990s, there has been unparalleled growth in the literary output from an ever more diverse group of Latinx writers. The extant criticism, however, has yet to catch up with the diversity of ...
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Since the 1990s, there has been unparalleled growth in the literary output from an ever more diverse group of Latinx writers. The extant criticism, however, has yet to catch up with the diversity of writers we label Latinx and the range of themes about which they write. Little sustained scholarly attention has been paid, moreover, to the very category—Latinx—under which we group this literature. Latinx Literature Unbound, thus, begins with a fundamental question “What does it mean to label a work of literature or an entire corpus of literature Latinx?” From this question a host of others spin out: What does that grouping allow us to see, predispose us to see, and preclude us from seeing? If the grouping—which brings together a heterogeneous collection of people and groups under a seemingly homogeneous label—tells us something meaningful, is there a poetics we can develop that would facilitate our analysis of this literature? In answering these questions, Latinx Literature Unbound seeks to unbind Latinx literature from taken-for-granted critical assumptions about identity and theme. It argues that there may be more salubrious taxonomies than Latinx for organizing and analyzing this literature. Following a neo-formalist interpretive model that privileges reading as a temporal, meaning-making event, the book argues that genre may be a more durable category for analyzing this literature. Finally, Latinx Literature Unbound suggests some ways in which we might want to proceed as we move forward with future studies of the writing we have come to identify as Latinx.Less
Since the 1990s, there has been unparalleled growth in the literary output from an ever more diverse group of Latinx writers. The extant criticism, however, has yet to catch up with the diversity of writers we label Latinx and the range of themes about which they write. Little sustained scholarly attention has been paid, moreover, to the very category—Latinx—under which we group this literature. Latinx Literature Unbound, thus, begins with a fundamental question “What does it mean to label a work of literature or an entire corpus of literature Latinx?” From this question a host of others spin out: What does that grouping allow us to see, predispose us to see, and preclude us from seeing? If the grouping—which brings together a heterogeneous collection of people and groups under a seemingly homogeneous label—tells us something meaningful, is there a poetics we can develop that would facilitate our analysis of this literature? In answering these questions, Latinx Literature Unbound seeks to unbind Latinx literature from taken-for-granted critical assumptions about identity and theme. It argues that there may be more salubrious taxonomies than Latinx for organizing and analyzing this literature. Following a neo-formalist interpretive model that privileges reading as a temporal, meaning-making event, the book argues that genre may be a more durable category for analyzing this literature. Finally, Latinx Literature Unbound suggests some ways in which we might want to proceed as we move forward with future studies of the writing we have come to identify as Latinx.
Micere Keels
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- May 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781501746888
- eISBN:
- 9781501746895
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9781501746888.001.0001
- Subject:
- Education, Higher and Further Education
Frustrated with the flood of news articles and opinion pieces that were skeptical of minority students' “imagined” campus microaggressions, the author of this book set out to provide a detailed ...
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Frustrated with the flood of news articles and opinion pieces that were skeptical of minority students' “imagined” campus microaggressions, the author of this book set out to provide a detailed account of how racial-ethnic identity structures Black and Latinx students' college transition experiences. Tracking a cohort of more than five hundred Black and Latinx students since they enrolled at five historically white colleges and universities in the fall of 2013, the book finds that these students were not asking to be protected from new ideas. Instead, they relished exposure to new ideas, wanted to be intellectually challenged, and wanted to grow. However, the book argues, they were asking for access to counterspaces—safe spaces that enable radical growth. They wanted counterspaces where they could go beyond basic conversations about whether racism and discrimination still exist. They wanted time in counterspaces with likeminded others where they could simultaneously validate and challenge stereotypical representations of their marginalized identities and develop new counter narratives of those identities. This critique of how universities have responded to the challenges these students face offers a way forward that goes beyond making diversity statements to taking diversity actions.Less
Frustrated with the flood of news articles and opinion pieces that were skeptical of minority students' “imagined” campus microaggressions, the author of this book set out to provide a detailed account of how racial-ethnic identity structures Black and Latinx students' college transition experiences. Tracking a cohort of more than five hundred Black and Latinx students since they enrolled at five historically white colleges and universities in the fall of 2013, the book finds that these students were not asking to be protected from new ideas. Instead, they relished exposure to new ideas, wanted to be intellectually challenged, and wanted to grow. However, the book argues, they were asking for access to counterspaces—safe spaces that enable radical growth. They wanted counterspaces where they could go beyond basic conversations about whether racism and discrimination still exist. They wanted time in counterspaces with likeminded others where they could simultaneously validate and challenge stereotypical representations of their marginalized identities and develop new counter narratives of those identities. This critique of how universities have responded to the challenges these students face offers a way forward that goes beyond making diversity statements to taking diversity actions.
Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas and Mérida M. Rúa (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- January 2022
- ISBN:
- 9781479805198
- eISBN:
- 9781479805235
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479805198.001.0001
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Social and Cultural Anthropology
Critical Dialogues in Latinx Studies approaches the social histories and contemporary lives of a diverse range of Latina and Latino populations, including immigrants, exiles, refugees, and US-born ...
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Critical Dialogues in Latinx Studies approaches the social histories and contemporary lives of a diverse range of Latina and Latino populations, including immigrants, exiles, refugees, and US-born groups from across the Americas. Adopting a comparative ethnic studies lens that captures histories of US imperialism, local and transnational perspectives on community, national and pan-ethnic identifications, and diverse social and demographic trends, this anthology emphasizes the breadth and dynamism of the ideas, debates, and questions that drive the dynamic field of Latinx/a/o Studies. The edited volume is unique, not only in its comparative, humanistic social science focus but also in its structure and organization of key discussions, what we call “critical diálogos,” in Latinx/a/o Studies. The anthology deliberately considers each contribution, not exclusively as a stand-alone piece but as part of a larger disciplinary theme and interdisciplinary conversation. This specific “diálogo framing” allows readers to identify specific areas of thematic interest, while remaining unavoidably attentive to the diversity and complexity of the everyday lives of Latinx populations, the political economic structures that shape enduring racialization and cultural stereotyping, and the continuing efforts to carve out new lives as diasporic, transnational, global, and colonial subjects. Critical Dialogues in Latinx Studies will introduce scholars and students to new approaches, theoretical trends, and understudied topics in Latinx/a/o Studies, while also fostering rigorous classroom discussion and scholarly research in a variety of disciplinary and interdisciplinary research areas.Less
Critical Dialogues in Latinx Studies approaches the social histories and contemporary lives of a diverse range of Latina and Latino populations, including immigrants, exiles, refugees, and US-born groups from across the Americas. Adopting a comparative ethnic studies lens that captures histories of US imperialism, local and transnational perspectives on community, national and pan-ethnic identifications, and diverse social and demographic trends, this anthology emphasizes the breadth and dynamism of the ideas, debates, and questions that drive the dynamic field of Latinx/a/o Studies. The edited volume is unique, not only in its comparative, humanistic social science focus but also in its structure and organization of key discussions, what we call “critical diálogos,” in Latinx/a/o Studies. The anthology deliberately considers each contribution, not exclusively as a stand-alone piece but as part of a larger disciplinary theme and interdisciplinary conversation. This specific “diálogo framing” allows readers to identify specific areas of thematic interest, while remaining unavoidably attentive to the diversity and complexity of the everyday lives of Latinx populations, the political economic structures that shape enduring racialization and cultural stereotyping, and the continuing efforts to carve out new lives as diasporic, transnational, global, and colonial subjects. Critical Dialogues in Latinx Studies will introduce scholars and students to new approaches, theoretical trends, and understudied topics in Latinx/a/o Studies, while also fostering rigorous classroom discussion and scholarly research in a variety of disciplinary and interdisciplinary research areas.
Trevor Boffone and Carla Della Gatta (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- January 2022
- ISBN:
- 9781474488488
- eISBN:
- 9781399501972
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474488488.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Shakespeare Studies
Shakespeare and Latinidad is a curated collection of scholarly and practitioner essays in the field of Latinx theatre that specifically focuses on adaptations and appropriations of Shakespeare’s ...
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Shakespeare and Latinidad is a curated collection of scholarly and practitioner essays in the field of Latinx theatre that specifically focuses on adaptations and appropriations of Shakespeare’s plays. It is the first truly comprehensive treatment of the myriad intersections of Latinx practitioners and art with Shakespearean performance, adaptation, and pedagogy. The collection includes leading academics, playwrights, and theatre practitioners; its blend of scholarly essays, practitioner essays, and interviews reflects the transdisciplinary synthesis of scholarship, dramaturgy, and pedagogy that shapes Latinx engagement with Shakespeare. The collection brings together the diverse voices working in this field today including leading academics, playwrights and theatre practitioners. This blend of essays and interviews reflects the transdisciplinary synthesis of scholarship, dramaturgy, and pedagogy that shapes Latinx engagement with Shakespeare. The collection includes essays and dialogues from actors, directors, scholars, playwrights, and vocal coaches. Essays cover a range of topics that include translating Shakespeare into contemporary English, Latinx actors portraying Shakespearean roles as either Latinx or non-Latinx, strategies for engagement for devised theatre and theatre for young audiences, directors’ Latinx visions for Shakespeare, and scholarly analysis of productions, adaptations, and initiatives for Latinx Shakespeares. The collection highlights productions, adaptations, and theatres from throughout the United States, in large cities and rural areas, from predominantly-white theatres to theatres of colour.Less
Shakespeare and Latinidad is a curated collection of scholarly and practitioner essays in the field of Latinx theatre that specifically focuses on adaptations and appropriations of Shakespeare’s plays. It is the first truly comprehensive treatment of the myriad intersections of Latinx practitioners and art with Shakespearean performance, adaptation, and pedagogy. The collection includes leading academics, playwrights, and theatre practitioners; its blend of scholarly essays, practitioner essays, and interviews reflects the transdisciplinary synthesis of scholarship, dramaturgy, and pedagogy that shapes Latinx engagement with Shakespeare. The collection brings together the diverse voices working in this field today including leading academics, playwrights and theatre practitioners. This blend of essays and interviews reflects the transdisciplinary synthesis of scholarship, dramaturgy, and pedagogy that shapes Latinx engagement with Shakespeare. The collection includes essays and dialogues from actors, directors, scholars, playwrights, and vocal coaches. Essays cover a range of topics that include translating Shakespeare into contemporary English, Latinx actors portraying Shakespearean roles as either Latinx or non-Latinx, strategies for engagement for devised theatre and theatre for young audiences, directors’ Latinx visions for Shakespeare, and scholarly analysis of productions, adaptations, and initiatives for Latinx Shakespeares. The collection highlights productions, adaptations, and theatres from throughout the United States, in large cities and rural areas, from predominantly-white theatres to theatres of colour.
Michael Pfeifer
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- September 2021
- ISBN:
- 9781479829453
- eISBN:
- 9781479804184
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479829453.001.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
The Making of American Catholicism: Regional Culture and the Catholic Experience argues that regional and transnational relationships have been central to the making of American Catholicism. The book ...
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The Making of American Catholicism: Regional Culture and the Catholic Experience argues that regional and transnational relationships have been central to the making of American Catholicism. The book traces the development of Catholic cultures in the South, the Midwest, the West, and the Northeast and their contribution to larger patterns of Catholicism in the United States. Exploring the history of Catholic cultures in New Orleans, Iowa, Wisconsin, Los Angeles, and New York City, the book carefully explores the history of American Catholic cultures across regions and their relation to factors such as national origin, ethnicity, race, and gender. The chapters include close analysis of the historical experiences of Latinx and African American Catholics as well as European immigrant Catholics. Eschewing a national or nationalistic focus that might elide or neglect global connections or local complexity, the book offers an interpretation of the American Catholic experience that encompasses local, national, and transnational histories by emphasizing the diverse origins of Catholics in the United States, their long-standing ties to transnational communities of Catholic believers, and the role of region in shaping the contours of American Catholic religiosity. Drawing on extensive archival research, the book argues that regional American Catholic cultures and a larger American Catholicism developed as transnational Catholic laity and clergy ecclesiastically linked to and by Rome in a hierarchical, authoritarian, and communalistic “universal Church” creatively adapted their devotional and ideological practices in particular American regional contexts that emphasized notions of republicanism, religious liberty, individualistic capitalism, race, ethnicity, and gender.Less
The Making of American Catholicism: Regional Culture and the Catholic Experience argues that regional and transnational relationships have been central to the making of American Catholicism. The book traces the development of Catholic cultures in the South, the Midwest, the West, and the Northeast and their contribution to larger patterns of Catholicism in the United States. Exploring the history of Catholic cultures in New Orleans, Iowa, Wisconsin, Los Angeles, and New York City, the book carefully explores the history of American Catholic cultures across regions and their relation to factors such as national origin, ethnicity, race, and gender. The chapters include close analysis of the historical experiences of Latinx and African American Catholics as well as European immigrant Catholics. Eschewing a national or nationalistic focus that might elide or neglect global connections or local complexity, the book offers an interpretation of the American Catholic experience that encompasses local, national, and transnational histories by emphasizing the diverse origins of Catholics in the United States, their long-standing ties to transnational communities of Catholic believers, and the role of region in shaping the contours of American Catholic religiosity. Drawing on extensive archival research, the book argues that regional American Catholic cultures and a larger American Catholicism developed as transnational Catholic laity and clergy ecclesiastically linked to and by Rome in a hierarchical, authoritarian, and communalistic “universal Church” creatively adapted their devotional and ideological practices in particular American regional contexts that emphasized notions of republicanism, religious liberty, individualistic capitalism, race, ethnicity, and gender.
Emir Estrada
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- January 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781479811519
- eISBN:
- 9781479881079
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479811519.001.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Occupations, Professions, and Work
Kids at Work is the first book to look at the participation of child street vendors in the United States. The children portrayed in this book are the children of undocumented Latinx immigrants who ...
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Kids at Work is the first book to look at the participation of child street vendors in the United States. The children portrayed in this book are the children of undocumented Latinx immigrants who are relegated to street vending because they lack opportunities to work in the formal sector of the economy. On the streets of Los Angeles, California, the children help their parents prepare and sell ethnic food from México and Central America, such as pozole, pupusas, tamales, champurrado, tacos, and tejuino. Shedding light on the experiences of children in this occupation highlights the complexities and nuances of family relations when children become economic co-contributors. This book captures a preindustrial form of family work life in a postindustrial urban setting where a new form of childhood emerges. Child street vendors experience a childhood period and family work relations that lies in the intersection of two polar views of childhood, which embodies a mutually protective and supportive aspect of the economic relationship between parent and child. This book is primarily based on the point of view of street vending children, and it is complemented with parent interviews and rich ethnographic fieldwork that humanizes their experience.Less
Kids at Work is the first book to look at the participation of child street vendors in the United States. The children portrayed in this book are the children of undocumented Latinx immigrants who are relegated to street vending because they lack opportunities to work in the formal sector of the economy. On the streets of Los Angeles, California, the children help their parents prepare and sell ethnic food from México and Central America, such as pozole, pupusas, tamales, champurrado, tacos, and tejuino. Shedding light on the experiences of children in this occupation highlights the complexities and nuances of family relations when children become economic co-contributors. This book captures a preindustrial form of family work life in a postindustrial urban setting where a new form of childhood emerges. Child street vendors experience a childhood period and family work relations that lies in the intersection of two polar views of childhood, which embodies a mutually protective and supportive aspect of the economic relationship between parent and child. This book is primarily based on the point of view of street vending children, and it is complemented with parent interviews and rich ethnographic fieldwork that humanizes their experience.
Trevor Boffone and Cristina Herrera (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- January 2021
- ISBN:
- 9781496827456
- eISBN:
- 9781496827500
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781496827456.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century and Contemporary Literature
Nerds, Goths, Geeks, and Freaks: Outsiders in Chicanx/Latinx Young Adult Literature signals a much-needed approach to the study of Latinx young adult literature. This edited volume addresses themes ...
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Nerds, Goths, Geeks, and Freaks: Outsiders in Chicanx/Latinx Young Adult Literature signals a much-needed approach to the study of Latinx young adult literature. This edited volume addresses themes of outsiders in Chicanx/Latinx children’s and young adult literature. The collection insists that to understand Latinx youth identities, it is necessary to shed light on outsiders within an already marginalized ethnic group: nerds, goths, geeks, freaks, and others who might not fit within Latinx popular cultural paradigms such as the chola and cholo, identities that are ever-present in films, television, and the Internet. In Nerds, Goths, Geeks, and Freaks, the through-line of being an outsider intersects with discussions of race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality. The volume addresses the following questions. What constitutes “outsider” identities? In what ways are these “outsider” identities shaped by mainstream myths around Latinx young people, particularly with the common stereotype of the struggling, underachieving inner city Latinx teen? How do these young adults reclaim what it means to be an “outsider,” “weirdo,” “nerd,” or “goth,” and how can the reclamation of these marginalized identities expand much-needed conversations around authenticity and narrow understandings of what constitutes Latinx identity? How does Chicanx/Latinx children’s and YA literature represent, challenge, question, or expand discussions surrounding identities that have been deemed outsiders/outliers?Less
Nerds, Goths, Geeks, and Freaks: Outsiders in Chicanx/Latinx Young Adult Literature signals a much-needed approach to the study of Latinx young adult literature. This edited volume addresses themes of outsiders in Chicanx/Latinx children’s and young adult literature. The collection insists that to understand Latinx youth identities, it is necessary to shed light on outsiders within an already marginalized ethnic group: nerds, goths, geeks, freaks, and others who might not fit within Latinx popular cultural paradigms such as the chola and cholo, identities that are ever-present in films, television, and the Internet. In Nerds, Goths, Geeks, and Freaks, the through-line of being an outsider intersects with discussions of race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality. The volume addresses the following questions. What constitutes “outsider” identities? In what ways are these “outsider” identities shaped by mainstream myths around Latinx young people, particularly with the common stereotype of the struggling, underachieving inner city Latinx teen? How do these young adults reclaim what it means to be an “outsider,” “weirdo,” “nerd,” or “goth,” and how can the reclamation of these marginalized identities expand much-needed conversations around authenticity and narrow understandings of what constitutes Latinx identity? How does Chicanx/Latinx children’s and YA literature represent, challenge, question, or expand discussions surrounding identities that have been deemed outsiders/outliers?
Juan D. De Lara
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- September 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780520289581
- eISBN:
- 9780520964181
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520289581.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
This book uses Southern California to explore a series of questions about the relationship between globalization, race, space, and class. It begins with an analysis of how growing consumer demand, ...
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This book uses Southern California to explore a series of questions about the relationship between globalization, race, space, and class. It begins with an analysis of how growing consumer demand, innovative retail business practices, and the infrastructure required to support global commodity chains made Southern California into the largest trade gateway in the United States. Warehouse work and the contentious spatial politics of inland Southern California’s logistic landscape provide the data to examine how the shifting ground of money and people intersected with local histories to reterritorialize race and capitalism at the turn of the twenty-first century. While global logistics innovations provided the impetus for capital and the state to transform Southern California’s economy, it also created pockets of resistance among labor, community, and environmental groups, who argued that commodity distribution exposed them to economic and environmental precarity. How people gave meaning to space and mobilized them to contest logistics space is at the crux of this project. The book is divided into three parts. The first part provides an introduction into the spatial politics of Southern California’s logistics regime by showing how the forces of global economic restructuring after the 1980s intersected with regional entrepreneurial actors to produce Los Angeles and inland Southern California as a space for logistics. I argue that logistics represents a major rearticulation of modern capitalist space. Part 2 examines how the flexible production and distribution systems that were critical to the expansion of global capitalism during the neoliberal age were responsible for creating social and economic precarity for logistics workers, many of whom were undocumented. The final part of the book shows how regional development policies and global restructuring combined with demographic change to reterritorialize Southern California’s geographies of race and class. The book concludes by showing how inland Southern California became a key site for the production of new Latinx geographies.Less
This book uses Southern California to explore a series of questions about the relationship between globalization, race, space, and class. It begins with an analysis of how growing consumer demand, innovative retail business practices, and the infrastructure required to support global commodity chains made Southern California into the largest trade gateway in the United States. Warehouse work and the contentious spatial politics of inland Southern California’s logistic landscape provide the data to examine how the shifting ground of money and people intersected with local histories to reterritorialize race and capitalism at the turn of the twenty-first century. While global logistics innovations provided the impetus for capital and the state to transform Southern California’s economy, it also created pockets of resistance among labor, community, and environmental groups, who argued that commodity distribution exposed them to economic and environmental precarity. How people gave meaning to space and mobilized them to contest logistics space is at the crux of this project. The book is divided into three parts. The first part provides an introduction into the spatial politics of Southern California’s logistics regime by showing how the forces of global economic restructuring after the 1980s intersected with regional entrepreneurial actors to produce Los Angeles and inland Southern California as a space for logistics. I argue that logistics represents a major rearticulation of modern capitalist space. Part 2 examines how the flexible production and distribution systems that were critical to the expansion of global capitalism during the neoliberal age were responsible for creating social and economic precarity for logistics workers, many of whom were undocumented. The final part of the book shows how regional development policies and global restructuring combined with demographic change to reterritorialize Southern California’s geographies of race and class. The book concludes by showing how inland Southern California became a key site for the production of new Latinx geographies.
Evan Rapport
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- May 2021
- ISBN:
- 9781496831217
- eISBN:
- 9781496831262
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781496831217.003.0008
- Subject:
- Music, Popular
The work of contemporary musicians helps explain the significance and legacy of early American punk and the world in which it was created. This conclusion looks first at the continued contradictions ...
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The work of contemporary musicians helps explain the significance and legacy of early American punk and the world in which it was created. This conclusion looks first at the continued contradictions and paradoxes of the blues’ central role in punk, through the music of Harry Pussy, This Moment in Black History, and others. The chapter then considers the ways in which groups such as Downtown Boys use a variety of musical approaches to establish female and Latinx punk lineages that intersect or run parallel to taken-for-granted narratives. Then the chapter considers the paradoxes of punk history and the forces of nostalgia through a consideration of the story of Death, an unknown Black rock group from mid-1970s Detroit with newfound success in the 2000s, as well as the diverse styles of contemporary groups such as Soft Pink Truth and Show Me the Body.Less
The work of contemporary musicians helps explain the significance and legacy of early American punk and the world in which it was created. This conclusion looks first at the continued contradictions and paradoxes of the blues’ central role in punk, through the music of Harry Pussy, This Moment in Black History, and others. The chapter then considers the ways in which groups such as Downtown Boys use a variety of musical approaches to establish female and Latinx punk lineages that intersect or run parallel to taken-for-granted narratives. Then the chapter considers the paradoxes of punk history and the forces of nostalgia through a consideration of the story of Death, an unknown Black rock group from mid-1970s Detroit with newfound success in the 2000s, as well as the diverse styles of contemporary groups such as Soft Pink Truth and Show Me the Body.
Héctor Fernández L’Hoeste and Juan Carlos Rodríguez
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- September 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781683401476
- eISBN:
- 9781683402145
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9781683401476.003.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Latin American Studies
This introductory chapter provides a general context for this collection, starting with the anecdotal inception of the project. It provides a list of some of the important titles in the field of ...
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This introductory chapter provides a general context for this collection, starting with the anecdotal inception of the project. It provides a list of some of the important titles in the field of digital humanities that figure prominently as academic predecessors and ponders on the consequences and implications of the digital turn in the humanities for the study of Latinx and Latin American culture. In response to the cultural hegemony of Anglocentric circles in the digital humanities, it provides ample evidence of the development and existence of the field in Latin America. Finally, it provides a brief overview of the four sections into which the book is divided: digital nations, transnational networks, digital aesthetics and practices, and interviews with Latin American DH scholars.Less
This introductory chapter provides a general context for this collection, starting with the anecdotal inception of the project. It provides a list of some of the important titles in the field of digital humanities that figure prominently as academic predecessors and ponders on the consequences and implications of the digital turn in the humanities for the study of Latinx and Latin American culture. In response to the cultural hegemony of Anglocentric circles in the digital humanities, it provides ample evidence of the development and existence of the field in Latin America. Finally, it provides a brief overview of the four sections into which the book is divided: digital nations, transnational networks, digital aesthetics and practices, and interviews with Latin American DH scholars.
Cristina Venegas
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- September 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781683401476
- eISBN:
- 9781683402145
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9781683401476.003.0002
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Latin American Studies
The chapter highlights some of the important questions raised by DH debates in work that problematizes the omission of critical race, gender, and class perspectives, with respect to the study of the ...
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The chapter highlights some of the important questions raised by DH debates in work that problematizes the omission of critical race, gender, and class perspectives, with respect to the study of the digital, and builds on these perspectives to consider the ongoing dilemmas of the field in Cuba during a new era of transnational relations contributing to the further transformation of Cuban society. Across the Americas, new research is taking up questions that include an understanding of how digital social networks mediate Latinx immigrant sociality and activism, and how others articulate the problems of digital segregation.Less
The chapter highlights some of the important questions raised by DH debates in work that problematizes the omission of critical race, gender, and class perspectives, with respect to the study of the digital, and builds on these perspectives to consider the ongoing dilemmas of the field in Cuba during a new era of transnational relations contributing to the further transformation of Cuban society. Across the Americas, new research is taking up questions that include an understanding of how digital social networks mediate Latinx immigrant sociality and activism, and how others articulate the problems of digital segregation.
Jennifer Keys Adair and Kiyomi Sa´nchez-Suzuki Colegrove
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- January 2022
- ISBN:
- 9780226765587
- eISBN:
- 9780226765754
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226765754.003.0001
- Subject:
- Education, Early Childhood and Elementary Education
In this chapter, the authors share the eight year story of their research and explain why they were compelled to write this book. They contextualize both the video-cued ethnographic and traditional ...
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In this chapter, the authors share the eight year story of their research and explain why they were compelled to write this book. They contextualize both the video-cued ethnographic and traditional ethnographic methods they used to spend a year with Ms. Baileys classroom and document the thousands of ways young children enacted their agency to learn and develop. Drawing upon critical literature at the intersections of early childhood education, immigration and schooling, bilingual education, learning sciences, cultural studies in education, developmental psychology and educational leadership, they try to make sense of why Ms. Bailey’s classroom was unique among U.S. schools. They apply Sen’s work on agency and global development to the role of agency in young children’s development as well as Charles Mill’s writings on the Racial Contract. They draw upon many Black and Indigenous scholars who demonstrate how children of color are denied or have to earn what most white children receive without effort. Finally, they detail their research design, including both the traditional and video-cued ethnographic phases of our data collection and analysis and then briefly introduce each chapter.Less
In this chapter, the authors share the eight year story of their research and explain why they were compelled to write this book. They contextualize both the video-cued ethnographic and traditional ethnographic methods they used to spend a year with Ms. Baileys classroom and document the thousands of ways young children enacted their agency to learn and develop. Drawing upon critical literature at the intersections of early childhood education, immigration and schooling, bilingual education, learning sciences, cultural studies in education, developmental psychology and educational leadership, they try to make sense of why Ms. Bailey’s classroom was unique among U.S. schools. They apply Sen’s work on agency and global development to the role of agency in young children’s development as well as Charles Mill’s writings on the Racial Contract. They draw upon many Black and Indigenous scholars who demonstrate how children of color are denied or have to earn what most white children receive without effort. Finally, they detail their research design, including both the traditional and video-cued ethnographic phases of our data collection and analysis and then briefly introduce each chapter.
Jennifer Keys Adair and Kiyomi Sa´nchez-Suzuki Colegrove
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- January 2022
- ISBN:
- 9780226765587
- eISBN:
- 9780226765754
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226765754.003.0004
- Subject:
- Education, Early Childhood and Elementary Education
This chapter explores the limits Ms. Bailey placed on individual children’s agency. Ms. Bailey’s classroom was not simply just a child-centered classroom with individualistic goals; children did not ...
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This chapter explores the limits Ms. Bailey placed on individual children’s agency. Ms. Bailey’s classroom was not simply just a child-centered classroom with individualistic goals; children did not do anything they wanted. Ms. Bailey insisted on obedience and respect even as children were able to enact their agency often and consistently. The authors try to demonstrate how Ms. Bailey limited agency in order to prioritize community and to show respect for family and neighborhood knowledges as well as young children’s real lives and diverse histories. The authors also share parents’ reactions to the film of Ms. Bailey’s classroom. Parents liked most of the practices in an ideal sense but worried that some would put their child in danger academically or physically given the injustices they and their children face in the larger society.Less
This chapter explores the limits Ms. Bailey placed on individual children’s agency. Ms. Bailey’s classroom was not simply just a child-centered classroom with individualistic goals; children did not do anything they wanted. Ms. Bailey insisted on obedience and respect even as children were able to enact their agency often and consistently. The authors try to demonstrate how Ms. Bailey limited agency in order to prioritize community and to show respect for family and neighborhood knowledges as well as young children’s real lives and diverse histories. The authors also share parents’ reactions to the film of Ms. Bailey’s classroom. Parents liked most of the practices in an ideal sense but worried that some would put their child in danger academically or physically given the injustices they and their children face in the larger society.
Frances R. Aparicio
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- January 2022
- ISBN:
- 9781479805198
- eISBN:
- 9781479805235
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479805198.003.0036
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Social and Cultural Anthropology
Like other expressive arts, music and literature allow communities to mourn and heal after a tragic event. In this chapter, I return to Héctor Lavoe’s song, “Aguanile” and explore its social meanings ...
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Like other expressive arts, music and literature allow communities to mourn and heal after a tragic event. In this chapter, I return to Héctor Lavoe’s song, “Aguanile” and explore its social meanings and potential for healing through a sonoroliterary reading of Afro-Puerto Rican writer Amina Gautier’s eponymous short story published in 2014. I conclude that the act of critical listening to salsa music, which Gautier’s protagonist engages after her grandfather’s passing, is central to acknowledging our racial, gender, and generational identities and thus to allow ourselves to grieve for others after Hurricane María destroyed Puerto Rico in 2017. I expand this analysis with a personal testimonio regarding the decolonizing role of Latinx Studies as a field that creates a sense of collective belonging for a Diasporican feminist scholar like me, who has embraced Latinidad in the United States.Less
Like other expressive arts, music and literature allow communities to mourn and heal after a tragic event. In this chapter, I return to Héctor Lavoe’s song, “Aguanile” and explore its social meanings and potential for healing through a sonoroliterary reading of Afro-Puerto Rican writer Amina Gautier’s eponymous short story published in 2014. I conclude that the act of critical listening to salsa music, which Gautier’s protagonist engages after her grandfather’s passing, is central to acknowledging our racial, gender, and generational identities and thus to allow ourselves to grieve for others after Hurricane María destroyed Puerto Rico in 2017. I expand this analysis with a personal testimonio regarding the decolonizing role of Latinx Studies as a field that creates a sense of collective belonging for a Diasporican feminist scholar like me, who has embraced Latinidad in the United States.
Suzanne Bost
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- May 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780252042799
- eISBN:
- 9780252051654
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5622/illinois/9780252042799.003.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Gender Studies
The introduction establishes the project’s relationship to multiple intersecting theoretical methodologies: posthumanism, memoir studies, Latinx studies, feminist New Materialisms, queer theory, ...
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The introduction establishes the project’s relationship to multiple intersecting theoretical methodologies: posthumanism, memoir studies, Latinx studies, feminist New Materialisms, queer theory, ecocriticism, and disability studies. By fragmenting subjectivity, emphasizing (human and trans-species) community, and incorporating death within life, the Latinx memoirs that are the subject of Shared Selves resonate with emerging posthumanist theories but are grounded in worldviews that exist outside of a Western intellectual tradition. Focusing on multiple alternatives to Humanism that emerge in this work leads to an ethics of connection, empathy, reciprocity, and humility.Less
The introduction establishes the project’s relationship to multiple intersecting theoretical methodologies: posthumanism, memoir studies, Latinx studies, feminist New Materialisms, queer theory, ecocriticism, and disability studies. By fragmenting subjectivity, emphasizing (human and trans-species) community, and incorporating death within life, the Latinx memoirs that are the subject of Shared Selves resonate with emerging posthumanist theories but are grounded in worldviews that exist outside of a Western intellectual tradition. Focusing on multiple alternatives to Humanism that emerge in this work leads to an ethics of connection, empathy, reciprocity, and humility.
Suzanne Bost
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- May 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780252042799
- eISBN:
- 9780252051654
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5622/illinois/9780252042799.003.0006
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Gender Studies
The book concludes with “Selflessness?”—a very brief memoir reflecting on the author’s own relationship to Humanism and the identity-based content of her field. As a woman with white skin, she is an ...
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The book concludes with “Selflessness?”—a very brief memoir reflecting on the author’s own relationship to Humanism and the identity-based content of her field. As a woman with white skin, she is an outsider, but as a published and tenured scholar-teacher, she is also most definitely within the network. The author uses her liminal position to argue for the importance of cross-cultural empathy, intellectual humility, and an embrace of the incommensurability of different worldviews.Less
The book concludes with “Selflessness?”—a very brief memoir reflecting on the author’s own relationship to Humanism and the identity-based content of her field. As a woman with white skin, she is an outsider, but as a published and tenured scholar-teacher, she is also most definitely within the network. The author uses her liminal position to argue for the importance of cross-cultural empathy, intellectual humility, and an embrace of the incommensurability of different worldviews.
Ruben Zecena
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- May 2021
- ISBN:
- 9780252043314
- eISBN:
- 9780252052194
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5622/illinois/9780252043314.003.0014
- Subject:
- Sociology, Social Movements and Social Change
While we know that undocumented youth have played critical roles in the fight for migrant rights in the 21st century, we know least about how this is playing out in the Southeastern United States. ...
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While we know that undocumented youth have played critical roles in the fight for migrant rights in the 21st century, we know least about how this is playing out in the Southeastern United States. This chapter illuminates how racial legacies of Jim Crow, the Civil Rights Movement, and Cuban incorporation matter if we are to understand undocumented/undocuqueer activists from Miami. Utilizing cultural geography’s concept of space and place, the chapter suggests a place-specific state of resistance to deportation and detention that speaks to a “Cuban Immigrant Power Structure.”Less
While we know that undocumented youth have played critical roles in the fight for migrant rights in the 21st century, we know least about how this is playing out in the Southeastern United States. This chapter illuminates how racial legacies of Jim Crow, the Civil Rights Movement, and Cuban incorporation matter if we are to understand undocumented/undocuqueer activists from Miami. Utilizing cultural geography’s concept of space and place, the chapter suggests a place-specific state of resistance to deportation and detention that speaks to a “Cuban Immigrant Power Structure.”
B. V. Olguín
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- February 2021
- ISBN:
- 9780198863090
- eISBN:
- 9780191895623
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198863090.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, American, 19th Century Literature, American, 20th Century Literature
Violentologies: Violence, Identity, and Ideology in Latina/o Literature explores how various forms of violence undergird a wide range of Latina/o subjectivities, or Latinidades, from 1835 to the ...
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Violentologies: Violence, Identity, and Ideology in Latina/o Literature explores how various forms of violence undergird a wide range of Latina/o subjectivities, or Latinidades, from 1835 to the present. Drawing upon the Colombian interdisciplinary field of Violence studies known as violentología, which examines the transformation of Colombian society during a century of political and interpersonal violence, this book adapts the neologism violentology as a heuristic device and epistemic category to map the salience of violence in Latina/o history, life, and culture in the United States and globally. The term violentologies thus refers to culturally specific subjects defined by violence—or violence-based ontologies—ranging from Latina/o-warrior archetypes to diametrically opposed pacifist modalities, plus many more. It also signifies the epistemologies of violence: the political and philosophical logic and goals of certain types of violence such as torture, military force, and other forms of political and interpersonal harm. Based on one hundred primary texts and archival documents from an expansive range of Latina/o communities—Chicana/o, Puerto Rican, Cuban American, Salvadoran American, Guatemalan American, and various mixed-heritages and transversal hybridities throughout the world—Violentologies features multiple generations of Latina/o combatants, wartime noncombatants, and “peacetime” civilians whose identities and ideologies extend through, and far beyond, familiar Latinidades. Based on this discrepant archive, Violentologies articulates a contrapuntal assessment of the inchoate, contradictory, and complex range of violence-based Latina/o ontologies and epistemologies, and corresponding negotiations of power, or ideologies, pursuant to an expansive and meta-critical Pan-Latina/o methodology. Accordingly, this book ultimately proposes an antiidentitarian post-Latina/o paradigm.Less
Violentologies: Violence, Identity, and Ideology in Latina/o Literature explores how various forms of violence undergird a wide range of Latina/o subjectivities, or Latinidades, from 1835 to the present. Drawing upon the Colombian interdisciplinary field of Violence studies known as violentología, which examines the transformation of Colombian society during a century of political and interpersonal violence, this book adapts the neologism violentology as a heuristic device and epistemic category to map the salience of violence in Latina/o history, life, and culture in the United States and globally. The term violentologies thus refers to culturally specific subjects defined by violence—or violence-based ontologies—ranging from Latina/o-warrior archetypes to diametrically opposed pacifist modalities, plus many more. It also signifies the epistemologies of violence: the political and philosophical logic and goals of certain types of violence such as torture, military force, and other forms of political and interpersonal harm. Based on one hundred primary texts and archival documents from an expansive range of Latina/o communities—Chicana/o, Puerto Rican, Cuban American, Salvadoran American, Guatemalan American, and various mixed-heritages and transversal hybridities throughout the world—Violentologies features multiple generations of Latina/o combatants, wartime noncombatants, and “peacetime” civilians whose identities and ideologies extend through, and far beyond, familiar Latinidades. Based on this discrepant archive, Violentologies articulates a contrapuntal assessment of the inchoate, contradictory, and complex range of violence-based Latina/o ontologies and epistemologies, and corresponding negotiations of power, or ideologies, pursuant to an expansive and meta-critical Pan-Latina/o methodology. Accordingly, this book ultimately proposes an antiidentitarian post-Latina/o paradigm.
