Critical dialogues in Latinx studies: a reader

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Critical Diálogo 1. US Imperialism and Colonial Legacies of Latinx Migrations -- 1. Puerto Rico: The Ascent and Decline of an American Colony -- 2. Borders and Crossings: Lessons of the 1980s Central American Solidarity Movement for 2010s Sanctuary Practices -- 3. "A Cartel Built for Love": "Medellín," Pablo Escobar, and the Scripts of Global Colombianidad -- 4. Geographies of Race and Ethnicity III: Settler Colonialism and Nonnative People of Color -- Critical Diálogo 2. The Politics of Labeling Latinidades and Social Movements -- 5. Disposable Strangers: Mexican Americans, Latinxs, and the Ethnic Label "Hispanic" in the Twenty- First Century -- 6. Querying Central America(n) from the US Diaspora -- 7. More than Christian and Mestizo: Race, Culture, and Identity within Latino/a Theology and Religious Studies -- 8. DNA+Latinx: Complicando the Double Helix -- Critical Diálogo 3. Recasting Spaces, Embodying Community -- 9. Guatemalan- Origin Children's Transnational Ties -- 10. Placing Text: Culture, Place, and the Affective Dimension of Vernacular Ambient Text -- 11. (Re)Claiming Public Space and Place: Maya Community Formation in Westlake/MacArthur Park -- 12. Health Brokers, Shrinks, and Urban Shamans Revisited: Networks of Care among Argentine Immigrants in New York City -- Critical Diálogo 4. Surveillance and Policing in Everyday Life -- 13. #FamiliesBelongTogether: Central American Family Separations from the 1980s to 2019 -- 14. Colonial Projects: Public Housing and the Management of Puerto Ricans in New York City, 1945– 1970 -- 15. Puerto Rico, Palestine, and the Politics of Resistance and Surveillance at the University of Illinois Chicago Circle -- 16. "Now Why Do You Want to Know about That?": Heteronormativity, Sexism, and Racism in the Sexual (Mis)education of Latina Youth -- 17. Refashioning Afro- Latinidad: Garifuna New Yorkers in Diaspora -- Critical Diálogo 5. Work and the Politics of "Deservingness" -- 18. The Life and Times of Trans Activist Sylvia Rivera -- 19. "Blossom as the Rose": Exploring a Politics of Worthiness for Millennial Latina/o Latter Day Saints -- 20. Guillermo Alvarez Guedes and the Politics of Play in Cuban America -- 21. Urban Designers and the Politics of Latinizing the Built Environment -- 22. The Bronx in Focus: The Visual Politics of En Foco, Inc. -- Critical Diálogo 6. Citizenship Subjects and "Illegality" -- 23. Racialized Hauntings of the Devalued Dead -- 24. "Citizenship Takes Practice": Latina/o Youth, JROTC, and the Performance of Citizenship -- 25. In Pursuit of Property and Forgiveness: Lin- Manuel Miranda's Hamilton and In the Heights -- 26. Leaving Lima Behind: The Immigration of Peruvian Professionals to Miami -- Critical Diálogo 7. Disciplining Institutions, Evicting Regimes -- 27. Latino Anti- Black Bias and the Census Categorization of Latinos: Race, Ethnicity, or Other? -- 28. Regulating Space and Time: The Disciplining of Latina and Black Sheltered- Homeless Women in NYC -- 29. The Afterlife of US Disciplining Institutions: Transnational Structures of (Im)mobility among Peruvian Deportees -- 30. Wars, Diasporas, and Un/Re- Rooted Familial Geographies: From Springfield, Massachusetts, to São Paulo, Brazil, and Beyond -- 31. Regeneration: Love, Drugs, and the Remaking of Hispano Inheritance -- Critical Diálogo 8. Latinx Kinship and Relatedness -- 32. Blackness, Latinidad, and Minority Linked Fate -- 33. Chongivity Activity: Latinx Hyperfemininity as Iconography, Performance, and Praxis of Belonging -- 34. Capturing the Church Familia: Scriptural Documents and Photographs on the Agricultural Labor Circuit -- 35. Aguanile: Critical Listening, Mourning, and Decolonial Healing -- Critical Diálogo 9. Community Engagement, Critical Methodologies, and Social Justice -- 36. The Power and Possibilities of a Latinx Community- Academic Praxis in Civic Engagement -- 37. Bridging Activism and Teaching in Latinx Studies -- 38. On Being a White Person of Color: Using Autoethnography to Understand Puerto Ricans' Racialization -- 39. Brujx: An Afro- Latinx Queer Gesture -- About the Contributors -- Index

Cover -- CRITICAL DIALOGUES IN LATINX STUDIES -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- Introduction -- CRITICAL DIÁLOGO 1: US IMPERIALISM AND COLONIAL LEGACIES OF LATINX MIGRATIONS -- 1. Puerto Rico: The Ascent and Decline of an American Colony -- 2. Borders and Crossings: Lessons of the 1980s Central American Solidarity Movement for 2010s Sanctuary Practices -- 3. "A Cartel Built for Love": "Medellín," Pablo Escobar, and the Scripts of Global Colombianidad -- 4. Geographies of Race and Ethnicity III: Settler Colonialism and Nonnative People of Color -- CRITICAL DIÁLOGO 2: THE POLITICS OF LABELING LATINIDADES AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS -- 5. Disposable Strangers: Mexican Americans, Latinxs, and the Ethnic Label "Hispanic" in the Twenty-First Century -- 6. Querying Central America(n) from the US Diaspora -- 7. More than Christian and Mestizo: Race, Culture, and Identity within Latino/a Theology and Religious Studies -- 8. DNA+Latinx: Complicando the Double Helix -- CRITICAL DIÁLOGO 3: RECASTING SPACES, EMBODYING COMMUNITY -- 9. Guatemalan-Origin Children's Transnational Ties -- 10. Placing Text: Culture, Place, and the Affective Dimension of Vernacular Ambient Text -- 11. (Re)Claiming Public Space and Place: Maya Community Formation in Westlake/MacArthur Park -- 12. Health Brokers, Shrinks, and Urban Shamans Revisited: Networks of Care among Argentine Immigrants in New York City -- CRITICAL DIÁLOGO 4: SURVEILLANCE AND POLICING IN EVERYDAY LIFE -- 13. #FamiliesBelongTogether: Central American Family Separations from the 1980s to 2019 -- 14. Colonial Projects: Public Housing and the Management of Puerto Ricans in New York City, 1945-1970 -- 15. Puerto Rico, Palestine, and the Politics of Resistance and Surveillance at the University of Illinois Chicago Circle.