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MAKING THE MEXIRICAN CITY
Migration, Placemaking, and Activism in Grand Rapids, Michigan
DELIA FERNÁNDEZ-JONES How Mexicans, Tejanos, and Puerto Ricans became part of the Upper Midwest “This is an original, indispensable, and beautifully poetic book that weaves together stories of migration, place making, and activism to show how Mexicans and Puerto Ricans made a home in Grand Rapids. With rich oral histories and archival research in Mexico, Puerto Rico, and the U.S., Delia Fernández-Jones has written an insightful and inspiring book that makes a vital contribution to fields of Latino and Midwestern history.” —FELIPE HINOJOSA, author of Apostles of Change: Latino Radical Politics, Church Occupations, and the Fight to Save the Barrio
FEBRUARY 2023 304 PAGES. 6.125 X 9.25 INCHES 5 BLACK & WHITE PHOTOGRAPHS
Large numbers of Latino migrants began to arrive in Grand Rapids, Michigan, in the 1950s. They joined a small but established Spanish-speaking community of people from Texas, Mexico, and Puerto Rico. Delia Fernández-Jones merges storytelling with historical analysis to recapture the placemaking practices that these Mexicans, Tejanos, and Puerto Ricans used to create a new home for themselves. Faced with entrenched white racism and hostility, Latinos of different backgrounds formed powerful relationships to better secure material needs like houses and jobs and to recreate community cultural practices. Their pan-Latino solidarity crossed ethnic and racial boundaries and shaped activist efforts that emphasized working within the system to advocate for social change. In time, this interethnic Latino alliance exploited cracks in both overt and structural racism and attracted white and Black partners to fight for equality in social welfare programs, policing, and education.
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Groundbreaking and revelatory, Making the MexiRican City details how disparate Latino communities came together to respond to social, racial, and economic challenges. DELIA FERNÁNDEZ-JONES is an assistant professor of history at Michigan State University.
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QUINOA
Food Politics and Agrarian Life in the Andean Highlands
LINDA J. SELIGMANN Indigenous farmers and the global demand for a superfood “Linda J. Seligmann’s book brilliantly examines the role of the superfood quinoa in and on a local Andean community, exploring gender relationships, local production systems, and the communal sense of place, as these phenomena intersect with the nation state and global capitalism.” —WILLIAM P. MITCHELL, author of Voices from the Global Margin: Confronting Poverty and Inventing New Lives in the Andes Quinoa’s new status as a superfood has altered the economic fortunes of Quechua farmers in the Andean highlands. Linda J. Seligmann journeys to the Huanoquite region of Peru to track the mixed blessings brought about by the surging worldwide popularity of this “exquisite grain.” Focusing on how Indigenous communities have confronted globalization, Seligmann examines the influence of food politics, development initiatives, and the region’s agrarian history on present-day quinoa production among Huanoquiteños. She also looks at the human stories behind these transformations, from the work of quinoa brokers to the ways Huanoquite’s men and women navigate the shifts in place and power occurring in their homes and communities. Finally, Seligmann considers how the consequences of nearby mining may impact Huanoquiteños’ ability to farm quinoa and thrive in their environment, and the efforts they are taking to resist these threats to their way of life.
DECEMBER 2022 224 PAGES. 6 X 9 INCHES 36 BLACK & WHITE PHOTOGRAPHS, 2 TABLES, 3 MAPS
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The untold story behind the popular health food, Quinoa illuminates how Indigenous communities have engaged with the politics and policies surrounding their production of a traditional and minor crop that became a global foodstuff.
A volume in the series Interpretations of Culture in the New Millennium, edited by Norman E. Whitten, Jr.
LINDA J. SELIGMANN is a professor emerita of anthropology at George Mason University. Her books include Broken Links, Enduring Ties: American Adoption across Race, Class, and Nation and Peruvian Street Lives: Culture, Power, and Economy among Market Women of Cuzco.
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BUILDING SUSTAINABLE WORLDS
Latinx Placemaking in the Midwest
Edited by THERESA DELGADILLO, RAMÓN H. RIVERA-SERVERA, GERALDO L. CADAVA, and CLAIRE F. FOX The intertwined dynamics of creating places and preserving community “Building Sustainable Worlds is a transdisciplinary tour de force of Latinx Studies scholarship that captures the vibrancy, resiliency, diversity, and idiosyncrasy of Latinx expressive culture in the Midwest! This wonderfully curated collection of essays serves as an outstanding contribution to the new scholarship on the Latinx Midwest.” —LOUIS MENDOZA, author of A Journey Around Our America: A Memoir on Cycling, Immigration, and the Latinoization of the U.S.
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Latina/o/x places exist as both tangible physical phenomena and gatherings created and maintained by creative cultural practices. In this collection, an interdisciplinary group of contributors critically examines the many ways that varied Latina/o/x communities cohere through cultural expression. Authors consider how our embodied experiences of place, together with our histories and knowledge, inform our imagination and reimagination of our surroundings in acts of placemaking. This placemaking often considers environmental sustainability as it helps to sustain communities in the face of xenophobia and racism through cultural expression ranging from festivals to zines to sanctuary movements. It emerges not only in specific locations but as movement within and between sites; not only as part of a built environment, but also as an aesthetic practice; and not only because of efforts by cultural, political, and institutional leaders, but through mass media and countless human interactions.
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THERESA DELGADILLO is a professor of English and Chican@ and Latin@ Studies at the University of Wisconsin. She is the author of Latina Lives in Milwaukee. RAMÓN H. RIVERA-SERVERA is Dean of and a professor in the College of Fine Arts at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of Performing Queer Latinidad: Dance, Sexuality, Politics. GERALDO L. CADAVA is a professor of history and Wender-Lewis Teaching and Research Professor at Northwestern University and the author of The Hispanic Republican: The Shaping of an American Political Identity, from Nixon to Trump. CLAIRE F. FOX is M.F. Carpenter Professor of English at the University of Iowa. She is the coeditor of The Latina/o Midwest Reader.
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LATINA/O/X EDUCATION IN CHICAGO
Roots, Resistance, and Transformation
Edited by ISAURA PULIDO, ANGELICA RIVERA, and ANN M. AVILES Fighting for a fair education in a big-city school system “It’s impossible to read this text and not be moved by Chicago’s Mexican and Puerto Rican community’s decades-long struggle for equity against tremendous odds with an establishment that imagines little more than dispossessing them, when this could be an entirely different narrative of valuing and honoring their strength, talent, acumen, and soul. Texts like these bring much-needed analysis and attention to the plight of Chicago’s Latinx community with provocative, vivid narrative and evidence that promises to inspire a new generation." —ANGELA VALENZUELA, author of Subtractive Schooling: U.S. Mexican Youth and the Politics of Caring
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In this collection, local experts use personal narratives and empirical data to explore the history of Mexican American and Puerto Rican education in the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) system. The essays focus on three themes: the historical context of segregated and inferior schooling for Latina/o/x students; the changing purposes and meanings of education for Latina/o/x students from the 1950s through today; and Latina/o/x resistance to educational reforms grounded in neoliberalism. Contributors look at stories of student strength and resistance, the oppressive systems forced on Mexican American women, the criminalization of Puerto Ricans fighting for liberatory education, and other topics of educational significance. As they show, many harmful past practices remain the norm—or have become worse. Yet Latina/o/x communities and students persistently engage in transformative practices shaping new approaches to education that promise to reverberate not only in the city but nationwide.
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ISAURA PULIDO is an associate professor in the Department of Educational Inquiry and Curriculum Studies at Northeastern Illinois University. ANGELICA RIVERA is the director of the Proyecto Pa’Lante at Northeastern Illinois University. ANN M. AVILES is an associate professor in the Department of Human Development and Family Sciences at the University of Delaware. She is the author of From Charity to Equity: Race, Homelessness, and Urban Schools.
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SHAPESHIFTING SUBJECTS
Gloria Anzaldúa’s Naguala and Border Arte
KELLI D. ZAYTOUN How can attention to the shapeshifter in literature change how we see ourselves and the world? “A significant text in the scholarship of Gloria Anzaldúa and in Latina/x feminisms in general. Zaytoun’s in-depth analysis of la naguala, a key concept in Anzaldúa’s work that has been barely theorized, will move Anzaldúa scholarship in new directions.” —MARIANA ORTEGA, author of In-Between: Latina Feminist Phenomenology, Multiplicity, and the Self Kelli D. Zaytoun draws on Gloria Anzaldúa’s thought to present a radically inclusive and expansive approach to selfhood, creativity, scholarship, healing, coalition- building, and activism. Zaytoun focuses on Anzaldúa’s naguala/shapeshifter, a concept of nagualismo. This groundbreaking theory of subjectivity details a dynamic relationship between “inner work” and “public acts” that strengthens individuals’ roles in social and transformative justice work. Zaytoun’s detailed emphasis on la naguala, and Nahua metaphysics specifically, brings much needed attention to Anzaldúa’s long-overlooked contribution to the study of subjectivity. The result is a women and queer of color, feminist-focused work aimed at scholars in many disciplines and intended to overcome barriers separating the academy from everyday life and community.
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An original and moving analysis, Shapeshifting Subjects draws on unpublished archival material to apply Anzaldúa’s ideas to new areas of thought and action.
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KELLI D. ZAYTOUN is a professor and the director of graduate studies in the Department of English Language and Literatures at Wright State University.
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QUEERING MESOAMERICAN DIASPORAS
Remembering Xicana Indígena Ancestries
SUSY J. ZEPEDA An interdisciplinary journey into memory and legacy Acts of remembering offer a path to decolonization for Indigenous peoples forcibly dislocated from their culture, knowledge, and land. Susy J. Zepeda highlights the often overlooked yet intertwined legacies of Chicana feminisms and queer decolonial theory through the work of select queer Indígena cultural producers and thinkers. By tracing the ancestries and silences of gender-nonconforming people of color, she addresses colonial forms of epistemic violence and methods of transformation, in particular spirit research. Zepeda also uses archival materials, raised ceremonial altars, and analysis of decolonial artwork in conjunction with oral histories to explore the matriarchal roots of Chicana/x and Latina/x feminisms. As she shows, these feminisms are forms of knowledge that people can remember through Indigenous-centered visual narratives, cultural wisdom, and spirit practices.
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A fascinating exploration of hidden Indígena histories and silences, Queering Mesoamerican Diasporas blends scholarship with spirit practices to reimagine the root work, dis/connection to land, and the political decolonization of Xicana/x peoples.
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SUSY J. ZEPEDA is an assistant professor at the University of California, Davis.
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JULIA DE BURGOS La creación de un ícono puertorriqueño
VANESSA PÉREZ-ROSARIO Traducción de Isabel Zapata La biografía de la escritora y activista puertorriqueña, ahora disponible en español “En esta magistral investigación, Pérez-Rosario le da vida a una de las artistas más sobresalientes y audaces de la diáspora puertorriqueña del siglo XX. Un libro indispensable que presenta a Julia de Burgos en su extraordinaria plenitud.” —JUNOT DÍAZ Durante más de cincuenta años, Julia de Burgos ha evocado sentimientos de identidad y unión entre puertorriqueños y latinos en Estados Unidos. Vanessa Pérez-Rosario va más allá del enfoque trágico de otras biografías de Burgos para examinar la vida de la artista considerando el trasfondo de la cultura puertorriqueña y la compleja historia de la isla y la diáspora. Enfocándose en Burgos como escritora y activista, Pérez-Rosario profundiza en su desarrollo artístico, su experiencia como migrante, sus luchas contra el colonialismo y la injusticia social y sus contribuciones a la cultura literaria y visual latinoamericanas. Al mismo tiempo, desentraña las dinámicas culturales y políticas que operan en las revisiones, reinvenciones y riff offs de Burgos que escritores y artistas latinos contemporáneos en Nueva York llevan a cabo para imaginar nuevas posibilidades para sí mismos y sus comunidades.
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VANESSA PÉREZ-ROSARIO es profesora en el Departamento de Inglés en Queens College, City University of New York. Editó Hispanic Caribbean Literature of Migration: Narratives of Displacement y tradujo Boat People, de Mayra Santos Febres. ISABEL ZAPATA es escritora, traductora y editora. Vive en la Ciudad de México.
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For over fifty years, Julia de Burgos has evoked feelings of bonding and identification in Puerto Ricans and Latinos in the United States. Vanessa Pérez-Rosario moves beyond the tragedy-centered biographies of Burgos to examine the artist’s life against the historical backdrop of Puerto Rico’s peoples and culture and the complex history of the island and the diaspora. Focusing on Burgos as both a writer and an activist, Pérez-Rosario delves into her artistic
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development, experience of migration, struggles against colonialism and social injustice, and contributions to Latino/a literary and visual culture. She also unravels the cultural and political dynamics at work when contemporary Latina/o writers and artists in New York revise, reinvent, and riff off of Burgos in imagining new possibilities for themselves and their communities.
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TANIA LEÓN’S STRIDE
A Polyrhythmic Life
ALEJANDRO L. MADRID A new biography of the classical music artist “There is incredible beauty and power in the way this book attends to aesthetics and artists with rigor and care. What sets it apart are Madrid’s stunning interviews conducted over several years with León and her family, peers, and students. An essential document about an extraordinary artist.” —ALEXANDRA T. VAZQUEZ, author of Listening in Detail: Performances of Cuban Music Acclaimed composer, sought-after conductor, esteemed educator, tireless advocate for the arts—Tania León’s achievements encompass but also stretch far beyond contemporary classical music. Alejandro L. Madrid draws on oral history, archival work, and ethnography to offer the first in-depth biography of the artist. Breaking from a chronological account, Madrid looks at León through the issues that have informed and defined moments in her life and her professional works. León’s words become a starting ground—but also a counterpoint—to the accounts of the people in her orbit. What emerges is more than an extraordinary portrait of an artist’s journey. It is a story of how a human being reacts to the challenges thrown at her by history itself, be it the Cuban revolution or the struggle for civil and individual rights.
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Nuanced and multifaceted, Tania León’s Stride looks at the life, legacy, and milieu that created and sustained one of the most important figures in American classical music.
E-BOOK, 978-0-252-05287-3 A volume in the series Music in American Life
ALEJANDRO L. MADRID is a professor of musicology at Cornell University. He is the author of the award-winning In Search of Julián Carrillo and Sonido 13 and coauthor of Danzón: Circum-Caribbean Dialogues in Music and Dance.
Publication supported by a grant from the General Fund of the American Musicological Society, supported in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. All rights: University of Illinois
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FOR A JUST AND BETTER WORLD
Engendering Anarchism in the Mexican Borderlands, 1900–1938
SONIA HERNÁNDEZ Mexico’s women activists living their ideals “A significant and solid contribution to gender-labor history, the history of women, the history of Latinas in the United States, and transnational history. Hernández puts the political biography of the anarcho-unionist leaders at the center and examines their political trajectory. She also intertwines their stories with the most important changes in anarchism, anarcho-syndicalism, mutualism, trade unionism, and the labor policies of the new Mexican state.” —MARÍA TERESA FERNÁNDEZ ACEVES, author of Mujeres en el cambio social en el siglo XX mexicano
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Caritina Piña Montalvo personified the vital role played by Mexican women in the anarcho-syndicalist movement. Sonia Hernández tells the story of how Piña and other Mexicanas in the Gulf of Mexico region fought for labor rights both locally and abroad in service to the anarchist ideal of a worldwide community of workers. An international labor broker, Piña never left her native Tamaulipas. Yet she excelled in connecting groups in the United States and Mexico. Her story explains the conditions that led to anarcho-syndicalism’s rise as a tool to achieve labor and gender equity. It also reveals how women’s ideas and expressions of feminist beliefs informed their experiences as leaders in and members of the labor movement.
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A vivid look at a radical activist and her times, For a Just and Better World illuminates the lives and work of Mexican women battling for labor rights and gender equality in the early twentieth century. SONIA HERNÁNDEZ is an associate professor of history at Texas A&M University and the author of Working Women into the Borderlands.
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PUERTO RICAN CHICAGO
Schooling the City, 1940–1977
MIRELSIE VELÁZQUEZ How education helped build a community “Puerto Rican Chicago: Schooling the City, 1940–1977 is an essential contribution to the growing scholarship on Latinos in the Midwest. It powerfully chronicles the persistent efforts of the Puerto Rican community, especially women, to advocate for their children’s right to a meaningful education and a more promising future. Meticulously researched and eloquently written, Mirelsie Velázquez’s book is a must read for those interested in community- based activism, education, urban history, and Puerto Rican and Latino studies.” —LOURDES TORRES, author of Puerto Rican Discourse: A Sociolinguistic Study of a New York Suburb The postwar migration of Puerto Rican men and women to Chicago brought thousands of their children into city schools. These children’s classroom experience continued the colonial project begun in their homeland, where American ideologies had dominated Puerto Rican education since the island became a US territory. Mirelsie Velázquez tells how Chicago’s Puerto Ricans pursued their educational needs in a society that constantly reminded them of their status as second-class citizens. Communities organized a media culture that addressed their concerns while creating and affirming Puerto Rican identities. Education also offered women the only venue to exercise power, and they parlayed their positions to take lead roles in activist and political circles. In time, a politicized Puerto Rican community gave voice to a previously silenced group—and highlighted that colonialism does not end when immigrants live among their colonizers.
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A perceptive look at big-city community building, Puerto Rican Chicago reveals the links between justice in education and a people’s claim to space in their new home.
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MIRELSIE VELÁZQUEZ is an associate professor of education at the University of Oklahoma.
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COMPUGIRLS
How Girls of Color Find and Define Themselves in the Digital Age
KIMBERLY A. SCOTT Unleashing the potential for hope, technological acumen, and social change in girls of color “COMPUGIRLS is a compelling and thought-provoking study of girls’ of color agency as they become social justice actors in the context of the new digital world. The author asks hard questions about barometers we should use in inclusion studies and projects a critical lens on many interventions focused on underrepresentation in the fields of computing. Brava for this work. The world needs more of these social justice actors!” —JANE MARGOLIS, author of Stuck in the Shallow End: Education, Race, and Computing What does is it mean for girls of color to become techno-social change agents— individuals who fuse technological savvy with a deep understanding of society in order to analyze and confront inequality?
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Kimberly A. Scott explores this question and others as she details the National Science Foundation–funded enrichment project COMPUGIRLS. This groundbreaking initiative teaches tech skills to adolescent girls of color but, as importantly, offers a setting that emphasizes empowerment, community advancement, and self- discovery. Scott draws on her experience as an architect of COMPUGIRLS to detail the difficulties of translating participants’ lives into a digital context while tracing how the program evolved. The dramatic stories of the participants show them blending newly developed technical and communication skills in ways designed to spark effective action and bring about important change.
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A compelling merger of theory and storytelling, COMPUGIRLS provides a much- needed roadmap for understanding how girls of color can find and define their selves in today’s digital age. KIMBERLY A. SCOTT is a professor in the Women and Gender Studies Department at Arizona State University and the Founder/Executive Director of ASU’s Center for Gender Equity in Science and Technology. She is coauthor of Kids in Context: The Sociological Study of Children and Childhoods and coeditor of Women Education Scholars and their Children’s Schooling.
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LA VOZ LATINA
Contemporary Plays and Performance Pieces by Latinas
Edited by ELIZABETH C. RAMÍREZ and CATHERINE CASIANO A collection of Latina performance pieces “Makes visible and accessible a panoply of performance texts that show the remarkable range and ability of Latina playwrights. It demonstrates the vibrant diversity, transnational influences, and high volume of activity in Latina theatre in both the past and present.” —THEATRE JOURNAL Elizabeth C. Ramírez and Catherine Casiano bring together a collection of plays and performance pieces by innovative Latina playwrights. Surveying Latina theatre in the United States from the 1980s to the twenty-first century, the editors present works displaying a variety of forms, themes, and genres, expanding the field of Latina theatre while situating it in the larger spectrum of American stage and performance studies. Ramírez and Casiano provide historical context and a production history for each work and a biography of, and artistic statement from, each playwright.
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PAPER, 978-0-252-08598-7 $30.00x £22.99 Book rights: University of Illinois. Play copyrights held by the individual playwrights.
Contributors: Yareli Arizmendi, Josefina Báez, The Colorado Sisters, Migdalia Cruz, Evelina Fernández, Cherríe Moraga, Carmen Peláez, Carmen Rivera, Celia H. Rodríguez, Diane Rodriguez, and Milcha Sanchez-Scott. The volume also includes commentary by Kathy Perkins and Caridad Svich. ELIZABETH C. RAMÍREZ works professionally as a dramaturg and currently teaches at Our Lady of the Lake University, and is the author of Chicanas/Latinas on the American Stage: A History of Performance. CATHERINE CASIANO is Assistant Dean of Admissions at St. Mary’s University School of Law.
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BEING LA DOMINICANA
Race and Identity in the Visual Culture of Santo Domingo
RACHEL AFI QUINN Dominican women being seen—and seeing themselves— in the media “A unique and timely examination of the significance and cultural strategies of Dominican women in the contemporary era marked by neoliberal economic structures, (post) colonial geopolitical arrangements, heteropatriarchal beauty standards, and global anti-blackness. It is an important work of feminist ethnography.” —NICOLE FLEETWOOD, author of On Racial Icons: Blackness and the Public Imagination Rachel Afi Quinn investigates how visual media portray Dominican women and how women represent themselves in their own creative endeavors in response to existing stereotypes. Delving into the dynamic realities and uniquely racialized gendered experiences of women in Santo Domingo, Quinn reveals the way racial ambiguity and color hierarchy work to shape experiences of identity and subjectivity in the Dominican Republic. She merges analyses of context and interviews with young Dominican women to offer rare insights into a Caribbean society in which the tourist industry and popular media reward, and rely upon, the ability of Dominican women to transform themselves to perform gender, race, and class.
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Engaging and astute, Being La Dominicana reveals the little-studied world of today’s young Dominican women and what their personal stories and transnational experiences can tell us about the larger neoliberal world.
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RACHEL AFI QUINN is an assistant professor in the Department of Comparative Cultural Studies and the Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Program at the University of Houston.
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QUEER AND TRANS MIGRATIONS
Dynamics of Illegalization, Detention, and Deportation
Edited by EITHNE LUIBHÉID and KARMA R. CHÁVEZ Centering the experiences of LGBTQ migrants and communities in crisis “An extraordinarily important volume bringing together activists, artists, and academics, Queer and Trans Migrations models the wide range of approaches that can help us understand and challenge the heteronormative frameworks, settler-colonialist politics, and racialized logics affecting migration, detention, and deportation.” —ERICA RAND, author of The Ellis Island Snow Globe More than a quarter of a million LGBTQ-identified migrants in the United States lack documentation and constantly risk detention and deportation. LGBTQ migrants around the world endure similarly precarious situations. Eithne Luibhéid and Karma R. Chávez’s edited collection provides a first-of-its-kind look at LGBTQ migrants and communities. The academics, activists, and artists in the volume center illegalization, detention, and deportation in national and transnational contexts, and examine how migrants and allies negotiate, resist, refuse, and critique these processes. The works contribute to the fields of gender and sexuality studies, critical race and ethnic studies, borders and migration studies, and decolonial studies.
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Contributors: Myisha Arellanus, Greg Bal, Felipe Baeza, AB Brown, Julio Capó Jr., Anna Carastathis, Jack Cáraves, Karma R. Chávez, Ryan Conrad, Monisha Das Gupta, Molly Fair, Katherine Fobear, Jamila Hammami, Leece Lee-Oliver, Edward Ou Jin Lee, Rachel Lewis, Adela C. Licona, Eithne Luibhéid, Hana Masri, Matice Moore, Yasmin Nair, Bamby Salcedo, Fadi Saleh, Elif Sarı, Rafael Ramirez Solórzano, José Guadalupe Herrera Soto, María Inés Taracena, Rommy Torrico, Myrto Tsilimpounidi, Suyapa G. Portillo Villeda, Sasha Wijeyeratne, and Ruben Zecena
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EITHNE LUIBHÉID is a professor in the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Arizona. She is the author of Pregnant on Arrival: Making the Illegal Immigrant. KARMA R. CHÁVEZ is an associate professor in the Department of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of Queer Migration Politics: Activist Rhetoric and Coalitional Possibilities.
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DISRUPTIVE ARCHIVES
Feminist Memories of Resistance in Latin America’s Dirty Wars
VIVIANA BEATRIZ MACMANUS Gender-based violence and historical memory in Mexico and Argentina “MacManus offers a deft contribution to the study of Latin American political repression by keeping women’s participation in resistance struggles at the center of her feminist intertextual analyses of oral histories and literary and audiovisual pieces.” —PASCHA BUENO-HANSEN, author of Feminist and Human Rights Struggles in Peru: Decolonizing Transitional Justice The histories of the Dirty Wars in Mexico and Argentina (1960s–1980s) have largely erased how women experienced and remember the gendered violence during this traumatic time. Viviana Beatriz MacManus restores women to the revolutionary struggle at the heart of the era by rejecting both state projects and the leftist accounts focused on men. Using a compelling archival blend of oral histories, interviews, human rights reports, literature, and film, MacManus illuminates complex narratives of loss, violence, and trauma. The accounts upend dominant histories by creating a feminist-centered body of knowledge that challenges the twinned legacies of oblivion for the victims and state-sanctioned immunity for the perpetrators. A new Latin American feminist theory of justice emerges—one that acknowledges women’s strength, resistance, and survival during and after a horrific time in their nations’ histories.
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Haunting and methodologically innovative, Disruptive Archives attests to the power of women’s storytelling and memory in the struggle to reclaim history. VIVIANA BEATRIZ MACMANUS is an assistant professor in the Department of Spanish and French Studies at Occidental College.
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DEFENDING THEIR OWN IN THE COLD
The Cultural Turns of U.S. Puerto Ricans
MARC ZIMMERMAN Examining the cultural contributions of Puerto Rican artists in the United States “Reflexive collections such as his offer both scholars and students a glimpse into the ways Puerto Ricans in the United States defend their own despite dominant misrepresentations of Latino’s integration and self-empowerment.” —LATINO STUDIES Marc Zimmerman works from a theoretical frame of cultural, postcolonial, and diasporic studies to compare the artistic experiences and cultural production of Puerto Ricans with that of Chicanos and Cuban Americans. As he shows, even supposedly mainstream U.S. Puerto Ricans participate in a performative culture that embodies elements of possible cultural “Ricanstruction.” Zimmerman examines a spectrum of U.S. Puerto Rican artistic life, including relations with other ethnic groups and resistance to colonialism and cultural assimilation. To illustrate how Puerto Ricans have survived and created new identities and relations out of their colonized and diasporic circumstances, Zimmerman looks at the cultural examples of Latino entertainment stars like Jennifer Lopez and Benicio del Toro; visual artists Juan Sánchez, Ramón Flores, and Elizam Escobar; and a group of Chicago Puerto Rican writers.
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MARC ZIMMERMAN is a professor emeritus of Latin American and Latino studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago and of Hispanic studies at the University of Houston. He is the author of U.S. Latino Literature: An Essay and Annotated Bibliography and the editor of Bringing Aztlán to Mexican Chicago: My Life, My Work, My Art.
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BLACK FLAG BORICUAS
Anarchism, Antiauthoritarianism, and the Left in Puerto Rico, 1897–1921
KIRWIN R. SHAFFER Transnational networks of radicalism in the Caribbean “An important contribution to the historiography of labor, radicalism, and political culture in Puerto Rico, with important implications for our understanding of the broader history of radicalism in the Spanish-speaking Caribbean and within Cuban and Puerto Rican diasporas.” —JOURNAL OF AMERICAN ETHNIC HISTORY This pathbreaking study examines the radical Left in Puerto Rico from the final years of Spanish rule into the 1920s. Positioning the island as part of a regional anarchist network that stretched from Puerto Rico and Cuba to Tampa and New York City, Kirwin R. Shaffer illustrates how Caribbean anarchists linked their struggle to international campaigns against religion, governments, and industrial capitalism. These groups spearheaded the development of an anarchist vision for Puerto Ricans at a time when the island was a political no-man’s-land. Shaffer follows the anarchist alliance with the Federación Libre de Trabajadores, the largest labor organization in Puerto Rico, and tells the story of the Bayamón Bloc, the most successful Puerto Rican anarchist organization until the United States government unraveled it during the Red Scare.
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KIRWIN R. SHAFFER is a professor of Latin American studies at Penn State University Berks College. He is the author of Anarchist Cuba: Countercultural Politics in the Early Twentieth Century and Anarchists of the Caribbean: Countercultural Politics and Transnational Networks in the Age of US Expansion.
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CHICAGO CATÓLICO
Making Catholic Parishes Mexican
DEBORAH E. KANTER How churches transformed Mexican communities and an American city “Chicago Católico is the first book of its kind, a superb history of Mexican parish life in a city of diverse Catholic immigrants. Kanter relates a fascinating tale of faith, identity, and the transformation of a city’s largest religious institution.” —TIMOTHY MATOVINA, author of Latino Catholicism: Transformation in America’s Largest Church Today, over one hundred Chicago-area Catholic churches offer Spanish-language mass to congregants. How did the city’s Mexican population, contained in just two parishes prior to 1960, come to reshape dozens of parishes and neighborhoods? Deborah E. Kanter tells the story of neighborhood change and rebirth in Chicago’s Mexican American communities. She unveils a vibrant history of Mexican American and Mexican immigrant relations as remembered by laity and clergy, schoolchildren and their female religious teachers, parish athletes and coaches, European American neighbors, and by the immigrant women who organized as guadalupanas and their husbands who took part in the Holy Name Society. Kanter shows how the newly arrived mixed memories of home into learning the ways of Chicago to create new identities. In an ever-evolving city, Mexican immigrants and Mexican Americans’ fierce devotion to their churches transformed neighborhoods such as Pilsen.
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The first-ever study of Mexican-descent Catholicism in the city, Chicago Católico illuminates a previously unexplored facet of the urban past and provides present- day lessons for American communities undergoing ethnic integration and succession.
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DEBORAH E. KANTER is John S. Ludington Endowed Professor of History at Albion College. She is the author of Hijos del Pueblo: Gender, Family, and Community in Rural Mexico, 1730–1850.
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IMAGINING THE MULATTA
Blackness in U.S. and Brazilian Media
JASMINE MITCHELL Mixed-race women and popular culture in Brazil and the United States “An important and very readable work on the comparative histories and visual cultural formations of race and mixed race in Brazil and the United States.” —CAMILLA FOJAS, author of Zombies, Migrants, and Queers: Race and Crisis Capitalism in Pop Culture Brazil markets itself as a racially mixed utopia. The United States prefers the term melting pot. Both nations have long used the image of the mulatta to push skewed cultural narratives. Highlighting the prevalence of mixedrace women of African and European descent, the two countries claim to have perfected racial representation—all the while ignoring the racialization, hypersexualization, and white supremacy that the mulatta narrative creates.
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Jasmine Mitchell investigates the development and exploitation of the mulatta figure in Brazilian and US popular culture. Drawing on a wide range of case studies, she analyzes policy debates and reveals the use of mixed-black female celebrities as subjects of racial and gendered discussions. Mitchell also unveils the ways the media moralizes about the mulatta figure and uses her as an example of an “acceptable” version of blackness that at once dreams of erasing undesirable blackness while maintaining the qualities that serve as outlets for interracial desire.
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JASMINE MITCHELL is an assistant professor of American studies and media and communication at SUNY Old Westbury.
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NEGOTIATING LATINIDAD Intralatina/o Lives in Chicago
FRANCES R. APARICIO One family, multiple identities, and today’s changing Latina/o world “Aptly interweaving humanities and social science approaches to identity, Aparicio sets up some of the building blocks for what Latino Studies will become in the twenty-first century. Her compelling engagement with storytelling by Latinos articulating intraLatina/o identities in Chicago is a groundbreaking intervention in the study of US Latinidad that transcends while honoring cultural nationalist models that may not always serve to capture our realities.” —ALAÍ REYES-SANTOS, author of Our Caribbean Kin: Race and Nation in the Neoliberal Antilles Longstanding Mexican and Puerto Rican populations have helped make people of mixed nationalities—MexiGuatemalans, CubanRicans, and others—an 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 work of these Intralatino/as when we discuss Latino/as in the United States.
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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 space—and a sense of belonging—in 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.
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FRANCES R. APARICIO is a professor emerita at Northwestern University. She is the author of Listening to Salsa: Gender, Latin Popular Music, and Puerto Rican Cultures.
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WRITING REVOLUTION
Hispanic Anarchism in the United States
Edited by CHRISTOPHER J. CASTAÑEDA and MONTSE FEU Spanish-language print culture and the anarchist quest for a new world “High-quality and worth reading.” —ANARCHO-SYNDICALIST REVIEW
“Essential reading for anyone interested in either anarchism or Hispanic labor and radicalism.” —KENYON ZIMMER, author of Immigrants against the State: Yiddish and Italian Anarchism in the United States In the late nineteenth through mid-twentieth centuries, the anarchist effort to promote free thought, individual liberty, and social equality relied upon an international Spanish-language print network. These channels for journalism and literature promoted anarchist ideas and practices while fostering transnational solidarity and activism from Buenos Aires to Los Angeles to Barcelona.
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Christopher J. Castañeda and Montse Feu edit a collection that examines many facets of Spanish-language anarchist history. Arranged chronologically and thematically, the essays investigate anarchist print culture’s transatlantic origins; Latina/o labor-oriented anarchism in the United States; the anarchist print presence in locales like Mexico’s borderlands and Steubenville, Ohio; the history of essential publications and the individuals behind them; and the circulation of anarchist writing from the Spanish-American War to the twenty-first century.
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Contributors: Jon Bekken, Christopher Castañeda, Jesse Cohn, Sergio Sánchez Collantes, María José Domínguez, Antonio Herrería Fernández, Montse Feu, Sonia Hernández, Jorell A. Meléndez-Badillo, Javier Navarro Navarro, Michel Otayek, Mario Martín Revellado, Susana Sueiro Seoane, Kirwin R. Shaffer, Alejandro de la Torre, and David Watson CHRISTOPHER J. CASTAÑEDA is a professor in the Department of History at California State University, Sacramento. His books include River City and Valley Life: An Environmental History of the Sacramento Region. MONTSE FEU is an assistant professor of Spanish and co-director of graduate studies for the Spanish Program at Sam Houston State University. She is the author of Fighting Fascist Spain: Worker Protest from the Printing Press.
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SHARED SELVES
Latinx Memoir and Ethical Alternatives to Humanism
SUZANNE BOST Seeing life writing through a posthumanist lens “Shared Selves mines the Latinx archive by placing lesser- known texts into conversation with authors such as Ortiz Cofer and Rechy. A must-read for anyone interested in the variability of the life-writing form and its continuing relevance for Latinx literary criticism.” —DAVID J. VÁZQUEZ, author of Triangulations: Narrative Strategies for Navigating Latino Idenity Memoir typically places selfhood at the center. Interestingly, the genre’s recent surge in popularity coincides with breakthroughs in scholarship focused on selfhood in a new way: as an always renewing, always emerging entity. Suzanne Bost draws on feminist and posthumanist ideas to explore how three contemporary memoirists decenter the self. Latinx writers John Rechy, Aurora Levins Morales, and Gloria E. Anzaldúa work in places where personal history intertwines with communities, environments, animals, plants, and spirits. This dedication to interconnectedness resonates with ideas in posthumanist theory while calling on indigenous worldviews. As Bost argues, our view of life itself expands if we look at how such frameworks interact with queer theory, disability studies, ecological thinking, and other fields. These webs of relation in turn mediate experience, agency, and life itself.
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A transformative application of posthumanist ideas to Latinx, feminist, and literary studies, Shared Selves shows how memoir can encourage readers to think more broadly and deeply about what counts as human life.
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SUZANNE BOST is a professor of English at Loyola University Chicago. She is the author of Encarnación: Illness and Body Politics in Chicana Feminist Literature and Mulattas and Mestizas: Representing Mixed Identities in the Americas, 1850–2000.
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Girls, Motherhood, and Inequality in Peru
KRISTA E. VAN VLEET The politics of morality and the quest to live a good life “Empathetically researched and clearly written, deeply respectful of and curious about the young women at Palomitay, this book runs a far wider gamut than most ethnographies, engaging visual arts and performance, humanitarianism, gender, and kinship in a context of unrelenting neoliberalism.” —JESSACA LEINAWEAVER, author of Adoptive Migration: Raising Latinos in Spain Palomitáy is an orphanage in highland Peru that provides a home for unmarried mothers as young as twelve years old. In their ordinary lives, these young women encounter diverse social expectations and face moral dilemmas. They endeavor to create a “good life” for themselves and their children in a context complicated by competing demands, economic uncertainties, and structured relations of power.
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Drawing on a year of qualitative on-site research, Krista E. Van Vleet offers a rich ethnography of Palomitáy’s young women. She pays particular attention to the moral entanglements that emerge via people’s efforts to provide care amid the inequalities and insecurities of today’s Peru. State and nonstate participants involved in the women’s intimate lives influence how the women see themselves as mothers, students, and citizens. Both deserving of care and responsible for caring for others, the young women must navigate practices interwoven with a range of racial, gendered, and class hierarchies.
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Groundbreaking and original, Hierarchies of Care highlights the moral engagement of young women seeking to understand themselves and their place in society in the presence of circumstances that are both precarious and full of hope.
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KRISTA E. VAN VLEET is an associate professor of anthropology and chair of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Bowdoin College. She is the author of Performing Kinship: Narrative, Gender, and the Intimacies of Power in the Andes.
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