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Informationen zum Autor Juan Flores is currently Professor of Latino Studies in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University. For many years he has taught Puerto Rican and Latino Studies at the City University of New York (CUNY) and in the Sociology Program at CUNY Graduate Center. He is the author of Divided Borders, La venganza de Cortijo, From Bomba to Hip-Hop , and Poetry in East Germany , and co-editor of On Edge: The Crisis of Contemporary Latin American Culture . Among his other publications are the translations of Memoirs of Bernardo Vega and Cortijo's Wake/El entierro de Cortijo by Edgardo Rodríguez Juliá. A Chicano scholar, Renato Rosaldo is Lucy Stern Professor Emeritus at Stanford where he taught for many years, and he now teaches at NYU where he was founding Director of the Latino Studies Program. His books include Ilongot Headhunting, 1883-1974 and Culture and Truth . A collection of his essays, Renato Rosaldo: Ensayos en antropología crítica , was recently published in Mexico. He has edited a collection, Cultural Citizenship in Island Southeast Asia , and also co-edited collections, The Incas and the Aztecs, 1400-1800 , Creativity/Anthropology , and The Anthropology of Globalization: A Reader . Written in English and Spanish, his first collection of poetry, Prayer to Spider Woman/Rezo a la mujer araña , won an American Book Award, 2004. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Klappentext A Companion to Latina/o Studies is a collection of 45 original essays written by leading scholars in the Latina/o studies field. These writers explore themes spanning great depths of creative scholarship, and the essays cover everything from theories of latinismo, immigration, education, language and religion; to discussions on political and economic perspectives, and race, class, gender, and sexuality. The volume also explores broader questions encompassing history, identity, public representations, and cultural expression within the Latino community. The racialization of African and Native American heritages is examined as well. The Companion provides thoughtful insights into what is now undeniably the largest minority in the United States, and is an essential resource for all scholars in the growing field of Latina/o Studies. Zusammenfassung A Companion to Latina/o Studies is a collection of 40 original essays written by leading scholars in the field! dedicated to exploring the question of what 'Latino/a' is. Inhaltsverzeichnis Notes on Contributors ix Editors' Foreword xxi Acknowledgments xxvii Part I Latinidades 1 Marks of the Chicana Corpus: An Intervention in the Universality Debate 3 Helena María Viramontes 2 The New Latin Nation: Immigration and the Hispanic Population of the United States 15 Alejandro Portes 3 "Dime con quién hablas, y te diré quién eres": Linguistic (In)security and Latina/o Unity 25 Ana Celia Zentella 4 (Re)constructing Latinidad: The Challenge of Latina/o Studies 39 Frances R. Aparicio 5 The Name Game: Locating Latinas/os, Latins, and Latin Americans in the US Popular Music Landscape 49 Deborah Pacini Hernández 6 Cuando Dios y Usted Quiere: Latina/o Studies Between Religious Powers and Social Thought 60 David Carrasco 7 Latina/o Cultural Expressions: A View of US Society Through the Eyes of the Subaltern 77 Edna Acosta-Belén Part II Actos: Critical Practices 8 José Limón, the Devil and the Dance 93 José E. Limón 9 The Everyday Civil War: Migrant Labor, Capital, and Latina/o Studies 105 Nicholas De Genova 10 The Powers of Women's Words: ...
