Negotiating Latinidad - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Negotiating Latinidad write by Frances R. Aparicio. This book was released on 2019-10-15. Negotiating Latinidad available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Longstanding Mexican and Puerto Rican populations have helped make people of mixed nationalities—MexiGuatamalans, 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 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 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.
Negotiating a Hemispheric Latinidad
Negotiating a Hemispheric Latinidad - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Negotiating a Hemispheric Latinidad write by Yari E. Cruz Rios. This book was released on 2018. Negotiating a Hemispheric Latinidad available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Negotiating a Hemispheric Latinidad, explores how contemporary Latin American cultural products (from the beginning of the 21st century and forward), think about, conceive of, and represent the Latinx experience in the U.S. This study argues that contemporary Latin American cultural products addressing the Latinx experience in the U.S. articulate latinidad as a never-ending border-crossing process, whose aim is to forge cultural proximity with Latinx communities throughout the Americas, emphasizing the believed Hispanic heritage while rejecting U.S. hemispherical hegemony. I also contend that the forging of latinidades questions the notion of a Hispanic (i.e., European-centered), "cosmic race" (i.e., a whitening processes of racial understandings) inherent in the Latin American latinidad, calling attention to the erasures embedded in this pan-ethnic grouping. Moreover, Negotiating a Hemispheric Latinidad examines how, through the conceptualization of latinidad and the pondering of who is Latinx in a Latin American context, some cultural products opt to claim an americanidad to emphasize hemispheric authenticity and belonging. Conversing with---and often challenging---the disciplines of American studies, Latino studies and Latin American studies, my dissertation observes that latinidad is a process that articulates and mobilizes Latinx American difference, creating a "Latino" identity which, as such, is inherently uneven and unequal.
Transformative Critical Media Literacy
Transformative Critical Media Literacy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Transformative Critical Media Literacy write by Renée Lemus Elisaldez. This book was released on 2017. Transformative Critical Media Literacy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This dissertation utilizes textual analysis of media representations of Latinidad and girl culture in order to demonstrate the multiple subjectivities Latinxs inhabit as well as highlight the power relations structured by race, gender, class and sexuality embedded in the mass media. This analysis considers the challenges young Latinas face when negotiating their identities with, through and against the oppressive images of the mass media. Drawing on the work of Chicana/Latina feminist educators, I term this pedagogical project Transformative Critical Media Literacy, defined as learning how to critically read images produced and put forth by the mass media and recognize them as representations of institutionalized oppression so as not to internalize and perpetuate the oppressive messages. TfCML can facilitate a process by which media viewers can imagine ways to transform the oppressive image to one of empowerment and liberation. TfCML is made up of methods that draw from Latinx media studies, Chicana/Latina feminist epistemology and pedagogy; and theatre studies methods as articulated by Augusto Boal and his Theatre of the Oppressed. TfCML offers Latinxs a space to negotiate their own process of identity while developing a critically conscious relationship with the mass media and hopefully become invested in social transformation and liberation.
Building Sustainable Worlds
Building Sustainable Worlds - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Building Sustainable Worlds write by Theresa Delgadillo. This book was released on 2022-07-12. Building Sustainable Worlds available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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. A rare and crucial perspective on Latina/o/x people in the Midwest, Building Sustainable Worlds reveals how expressive culture contributes to, and sustains, a sense of place in an uncertain era.
The Latino Continuum and the Nineteenth-Century Americas
The Latino Continuum and the Nineteenth-Century Americas - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Latino Continuum and the Nineteenth-Century Americas write by Carmen Lamas. This book was released on 2021-03. The Latino Continuum and the Nineteenth-Century Americas available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This work demonstrates how Latina/os have been integral to US and Latin American literature and history since the nineteenth century.
