The new Latino studies reader : a twenty-first-century perspective /
Gutiérrez, Ramón A.,1951-editor.
Almaguer, Tomás,editor.
"The New Latino Studies Reader is designed as a contemporary, updated, multi-faceted collection of writings that bring to force the exciting, necessary scholarship of the last decades. Its aim is to introduce a new generation of students to a wide-ranging set of writing that helps them have a truer understanding of what it's like to be a Latino in the United States. With the reader, students explore the socio-historical formation of Latinos as a distinct pan-ethnic group in the United States, delving into issues of class formation; social stratification; racial, gender and sexual identities; and politics and cultural production. And while other readers now in print may discuss Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, Cubans and Central Americans as distinct groups with unique experiences, this text explores the commonalities that structure the experiences of Latinos Americans as a whole. Timely, thorough, and thought-provoking, The New Latino Studies Reader provides a genuine view of the Latino experience as a whole"--
Includes bibliographical references and index.
What's in a name? / Ramón A. Gutiérrez -- (Re)constructing latinidad / Frances R. Aparicio -- Celia's shoes / Frances Negrón-Muntaner -- The Latino crucible / Ramón A. Gutiérrez -- An historic overview of Latino immigration and the demographic transformation of the United States / David G. Gutiérrez -- Late-20th century immigration and U.S. foreign policy / Lillian Guerra -- Neither white nor black / Jorge Duany -- Hair race-ing / Ginetta E. B. Candelario -- Race, racialization, and Latino populations in the United States / Tomás Almaguer -- The working poor / Patricia Zavella -- Economies of dignity / Nicholas De Genova and Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas -- Not so golden? / Manuel Pastor Jr. -- Class, generation, and assimilation -- Latino lives / Luis Ricardo Fraga [and others] -- Generations of exclusion / Edward Telles and Vilma Ortiz -- Latinos in the power elite / Richard l. Zweigenhaft and G. William Domhoff -- Postscript / Richard l. Zweigenhaft and G. William Domhoff -- A history of Latina/o sexualities / Ramón A. Gutiérrez -- Gender strategies, settlement, and transnational life in the first generation / Robert Courtney Smith -- She's old school like that / Lorena García -- Longing and same-sex desire among Mexican men / Tomás Almaguer -- Latina/o participation / Lisa García Bedolla -- Young Latinos in an aging American society / David E. Hayes-Bautista, Werner Schink, and Jorge Chapa -- Afterword / David E. Hayes-Bautista, Werner Schink, and Jorge Chapa -- Life after prison / Martin Guevara Urbina -- Climate of fear / Southern Poverty Law Center -- What explains the immigrant rights marches of 2006? / Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo and Angelica Salas -- Wet foot, dry foot . . . wrong foot / Ann Louise Bardach.
"The New Latino Studies Reader is designed as a contemporary, updated, multi-faceted collection of writings that bring to force the exciting, necessary scholarship of the last decades. Its aim is to introduce a new generation of students to a wide-ranging set of writing that helps them have a truer understanding of what it's like to be a Latino in the United States. With the reader, students explore the socio-historical formation of Latinos as a distinct pan-ethnic group in the United States, delving into issues of class formation; social stratification; racial, gender and sexual identities; and politics and cultural production. And while other readers now in print may discuss Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, Cubans and Central Americans as distinct groups with unique experiences, this text explores the commonalities that structure the experiences of Latinos Americans as a whole. Timely, thorough, and thought-provoking, The New Latino Studies Reader provides a genuine view of the Latino experience as a whole"--
Hispanic Americans.