Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Latinidad in the Flesh: An Intimate Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Horizontal Hierarchies: The Transnational Tensions in Latinidad
Familia
2. Chicago Encounters: Loving the National Other
3. The Motifs of Latinidad: Negotiating Nationalities and Struggling for Multiple Belongings
4. Of Fathers and Mothers: Gender and National (Dis)Identifications
Race and Language
5. Relational Racializations: Skin Color as Other
6. Negotiating Spanish: Linguistic Boundaries and Transculturations
Passing and Performance
7. Passing for Mexican: Relational Identities in Latina/o Chicago
8. Performing the National Other: Visual and Sonic Passing
Rewriting Labels
9. The "New" Americana/os: Intralatina/os and the Utopia of National Hybridities
10. Toward a New Research Agenda
Appendix: Interview Questions
Notes
Works Cited
Index
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Frances R. Aparicio
Riassunto
Longstanding Mexican and Puerto Rican populations have helped make people of mixed nationalitiesMexiGuatamalans, CubanRicans, and othersan important part of Chicago's Latina/o scene. Intermarriage between Guatemalans, Colombians, and Cubans have further diversified this community-within-a-community. Yet we seldom consider the lives and works of these Intralatino/as when we discuss Latino/as in the United States.In Negotiating Latinidad, a cross-section of Chicago's second-generation Intralatino/as offer their experiences of negotiating between and among the national communities embedded in their families. Frances R. Aparicio's rich interviews reveal Intralatino/as proud of their multiplicity and particularly skilled at understanding difference and boundaries. Their narratives explore both the ongoing complexities of family life and the challenges of fitting into our larger society, in particular the struggle to claim a spaceand a sense of belongingin a Latina/o America that remains highly segmented in scholarship. The result is an emotionally powerful, theoretically rigorous exploration of culture, hybridity, and transnationalism that points the way forward for future scholarship on Intralatino/a identity.
