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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 a Fiesta de los Ausentes -- Chapter 2 Transnational Sexualities -- Chapter 3 The Politics of Movement -- Chapter 4 Transnational Identities and Citizenship -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One: The Conflict Within -- Introduction -- 1. The Leaking Caste System -- 2. Barrios at War -- 3. Organizing Unity -- 4. A Congressman Reacts -- 5. Kill the Gringos! -- 6. The Berets Rise Up -- Part Two: Marching Together Separately -- Introduction -- 7. Women Creating Space -- 8. Batos Claiming Legitimacy -- 9. Fragmenting Elements -- Part Three: After the Fury -- Introduction -- 10. Several Wrong Turns -- 11. A Transformation -- Appendix: On Intepreting the Chicano Movement -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index

Frontmatter -- About the Series -- Dedications -- contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Power of Representation. History, Memory, and the Cultural Refiguring of La Malinche's Lineage -- 2. Chicana Feminism. Spirituality, Sexuality, and Mexica Goddesses Re-membered -- 3. Las Historias. Sexuality, Gender Roles, and La Virgen de Guadalupe Reconsidered -- 4. Cultural Anxieties and Truths. Gender, Nationalism, and La Llorona Retellings -- 5. Reading Dynamics of Power. Oral Histories, Feminist Research, and the Politics of Location -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Maps, Tables, and Charts -- Preface: For Orlando Readers -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction Race, Class, Place, and Politics in a New Puerto Rican Diaspora -- Part I Puerto Rican Orlando -- Chapter 1. Between Black and White: Geography, Demography, and Political Place -- Chapter 2. Hidden Histories in the New Orlando: Colonial Migrations, Color-Blind Multiculturalism, and Natural Neoliberalism -- Part II Difference and the Incompleteness of Political Community Formation -- Chapter 3. "You Don't Look Puerto Rican": Race, Class, and Memories of Place in Orlando -- Chapter 4. Enough Is Enough: Memory, Political Formations, and Participatory Citizenship -- Chapter 5. "This Building Is Our Island": Seen and Unseen in Orlando -- Part III The Case of Redistricting in Orange County, Florida -- Chapter 6. Divided by Beans: Tensions of Collective Identification -- Chapter 7. Four Districts for Americans: Mapping Community in Orange County -- Conclusion. Navigating Ambiguity in the Interests of Community -- Epilogue "Things Will Be Different Now" -- Appendix. Oral History Collections and Orange County Board of County Commissioners Proceedings -- Notes -- References -- Index

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Women of the Texas-Mexican Earth -- I. Enterrando ombligos/Burying the Umbilical Cord: Tejanas in a Texas Land -- Introduction -- Border arte. Nepantla, el lugar de la frontera -- To Your Shadow Beast. In Memoriam -- The Equation of a Circle -- Holiday -- Man without a Pen -- Hija del mesquite -- That's Tejana -- Santiago -- Growing Up in Laredo -- Harbor -- South Texas in July, 2014 -- Alzheimer's Aubade -- ¿Y qué nos pasó, Amá? -- Fall into the Fig -- Reflections of la Madre Tierra -- Chicana -- Repair -- My mother's thimble -- Growing up a Texas-Mexican Woman -- Sinvergüenza on the Banks of the Water -- El Paso~El Valle -- River of Lost Dreams -- The Pyramid I Call Home -- Red Dirt, Atascosa County, Texas -- Amorosamente les saludo / Lovingly, I Greet You -- A River of Women -- II. Dolores profundos y la gracia de la vida/ Deep Hurts and the Grace of Life -- Introduction -- Between Manifest Destiny and Women's Rights. Decolonizing Chicana History -- "If a woman stands at the door you can't go in" Jovita's Story, April 1914 -- The Ballad of Emma Tenayuca -- Para Manuela Solis Sager -- La mentira, or How I Got Through Texas History -- Casas grandes -- No me quites mi español / Don't Take Away My Spanish -- Idioma/Language -- My Mother Used to Read to Me -- Summertime Blues -- Brown Trenzas Are for Mensas -- Memories of West Texas -- Anticipating a New Life -- The Immigrant's Lament -- Not the Last Pretender -- Aquí en San Anto/Here in San Anto -- Something Severed -- Amber Waves of Grain -- San Antonio sin Marías -- It Is Possible -- El conquistador -- The Power of Difference -- I Wanted Mexican, But I Got H.E.B. Instead -- La Elliott (1935–1970) -- Brown Mother Full of Stars -- Daughters of Burning Sun -- III. Arte y semblanza: Tejana Artivists -- Introduction -- Santa Barraza -- Nora Chapa Mendoza -- Celeste De Luna -- Carmen Lomas Garza -- Verónica Ortegón -- María Teresa García Pedroche -- Kathy Vargas -- Terry Ybañez -- Conclusion -- IV. All Our Relations: Our Connections to Land, Family, Friends -- Introduction -- (Re)Forming A Chicana Feminist: Transfrontera Memorias -- Tía -- En trozos/in pieces -- Skyway Dreams -- Ábreme la puerta -- We, the Obsessed -- Amorcito corazón -- A Chilanga Tejana Writer: Notes on the Geography of Shame -- She/Woman/Man -- An Understanding -- No More Trenzas -- Role Model -- Bad Hair Day -- Nocturne: cuando el destino -- Moustache -- At the VA Telemetry Ward -- Longing for Tejas Blues -- My Mother's Cuartito -- Dinner with Dad -- Mothering I -- Sueños argentinos/Argentine Dreams -- Argentine Dreams -- Woman and Pain -- The Garden -- Forgiving Stephen F. Austin and the old three hundred -- Viva la libertad: Mensaje a las mujeres / Long Live Liberty: A Message to Women -- Let Us Hold Hands -- Tierra incógnita -- Ghosts of a Mexican Past (excerpt) -- Asking for Pears: A Limpia Not Just a Love Poem -- V. (Auto)compromisos y comunidad: Gifts of Powerful, Conscious Loving -- Introduction -- La Dormilona Dreamt of Home from the Shore of Erie -- Hoy detengo el curso de los ríos -- Today I Stop the River in Its Tracks -- Ya lo verás -- Chicanas Never Feared -- Con todo respeto para la raza más apreciada, los chicanos/With All My Respect for My Dearest People, the Chicanos -- In Finite F Light -- Body I -- Tejana Tongues/Lenguas tejanas -- Canto a la tierra -- Reina de copas -- In Memory of My Departed Grandmother: Juanita Pérez Mejía 08/25/03–03/11/93 -- Ofrenda for Lobo: November 2, 1993 -- Feliz Navidad, Daddy -- One dream of so many -- Sóplame la vida -- Plegaria milenaria / Millenial Prayer -- One-sided conversations with my mother -- Luchando por libertad / Struggling for Freedom -- Picture Postcard from a Painter -- An Omen -- Cuando tú me besas/When You Kiss Me -- My Woman and Her Bird -- Trozos de amor a la vida/Pieces of Love to Life -- Because faith has called me out -- El silencio -- Healing a Culture, AD 2000 -- Epilogue. ¡Adelante y con ganas!, by Norma Elia Cantú -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Further Reading -- Contributors

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Decision Making and Leave-Taking -- 2. The Dangerous Journey -- 3. Churches Crossing Borders -- 4. Miracles in the Desert -- 5. La Promesa -- 6. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Acknowledgments -- Index

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: Exploring Central American Drug Trafficking -- 1 Central America and the International Trade in Drugs -- 2 Belize -- 3 Costa Rica -- 4 Guatemala -- 5 Honduras -- 6 Panama -- Conclusion -- Selected Bibliography -- Index of Cases -- Index of Names -- General Index

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 1. On Slow Writing -- 2. Regeneración -- 3. Por La Causa -- 4. Somos Camaradas -- 5. A Dallas Vamos -- 6. Negotiating Locura -- 7. No Somos Comunistas -- 8. What We Do to Live! -- 9. From the Island Kingdoms -- 10. And the Political Edge? -- 11. Many Years Later -- Bibliographic Notes

Caught between violent partners and the bureaucratic complications of the US Immigration system, many immigrant women are particularly vulnerable to abuse. For two years, Roberta Villalón volunteered at a nonprofit group that offers free legal services to mostly undocumented immigrants who had been victims of abuse. Her innovative study of Latina survivors of domestic violence explores the complexities at the intersection of immigration, citizenship, and violence, and shows how inequality is perpetuated even through the well-intentioned delivery of vital services. Through archival research, participant observation, and personal interviews, Violence Against Latina Immigrants provides insight into the many obstacles faced by battered immigrant women of color, bringing their stories and voices to the fore. Ultimately, Villalón proposes an active policy advocacy agenda and suggests possible changes to gender violence-based immigration laws, revealing the complexities of the lives of Latina immigrants as they confront issues of citizenship, gender violence, and social inequalities

From its sweaty beats to the pulsating music on the streets, Latin/o America is perceived in the United States as the land of heat, the toy store for Western sex. It is the territory of magical fantasy and of revolutionary threat, where topography is the travel guide of desire, directing imperial voyeurs to the exhibition of the flesh. Jose Quiroga flips the stereotype upside down: he shows how Latin/o American lesbians and gay men have consistently eschewed notions of sexual identity for a politics of intervention. In Tropics of Desire, Quiroga reads hesitant Mexican poets as sex-positive voices, he questions how outing and identity politics can fall prey to the manipulations of the state, and explores how invisibility has been used as a tactical tool in opposition to the universal imperative to come out. Drawing on diverse cultural examples such as the performance of bolero and salsa, film, literature, and correspondence, and influenced by masters like Roland Barthes, Walter Benjamin and a rich tradition of Latin American stylists, Quiroga argues for a politics that denies biological determinism and cannibalizes cultural stereotypes for the sake of political action

The Border Reader brings together canonical and cutting-edge humanities and social science scholarship on the US-Mexico border region. Spotlighting the vibrancy of border studies from the field's emergence to its enduring significance, the essays mobilize feminist, queer, and critical ethnic studies perspectives to theorize the border as a site of epistemic rupture and knowledge production. The chapters speak to how borders exist as regions where people and nation-states negotiate power, citizenship, and questions of empire. Among other topics, these essays examine the lived experiences of the diverse undocumented people who move through and live in the border region; trace the gendered and sexualized experiences of the border; show how the US-Mexico border has become a site of illegality where immigrant bodies become racialized and excluded; and imagine anti- and post-border futures. Foregrounding the interplay of scholarly inquiry and political urgency stemming from the borderlands, The Border Reader presents a unique cross section of critical interventions on the region.Contributors. Leisy J. Abrego, Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Martha Balaguera, Lionel Cantú, Leo R. Chavez, Raúl Fernández, Rosa-Linda Fregoso, Roberto G. Gonzales, Gilbert G. González, Ramón Gutiérrez, Kelly Lytle Hernández, José E. Limón, Mireya Loza, Alejandro Lugo, Eithne Luibhéid, Martha Menchaca, Cecilia Menjívar, Natalia Molina, Fiamma Montezemolo, Américo Paredes, Néstor Rodríguez, Renato Rosaldo, Gilberto Rosas, María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo, Sonia Saldívar-Hull, Alicia Schmidt Camacho, Sayak Valencia Triana, Carlos G. Vélez-Ibáñez, Patricia Zavella

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1. Re-viewing La Frontera: Borders versus Boundaries -- 1. La Frontera as Border and Boundary -- 2. Ambos Nogales: A Tale of Two Cities -- 3. Tijuana: The Wall and the Estuary -- 4. Wall and River in the Lower Rio Grande Valley -- Postlude 1. Walled Up and Walled Out -- Part 2. Looking Both Ways at the Border -- Prelude to Part 2. Friendship Park: First Encounter -- 5. The Creation of an Internal Colony: Santa Barbara, a City Divided against Itself -- 6. Juan Crow: The American Ethnoracial Caste System and the Criminalization of Mexican Migrants -- 7. The Souls of Anglos -- 8. Border-Wall Art as Limit Acts -- 9. Creating Communities of Hospitality: Growing Connective Tissue between Immigrants and Citizens -- Postlude 2. Gaining Access to the Heart of Our Home -- Epilogue: From Standing in the Shadows of Walls to Imagining Them Otherwise -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Language -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. These People Are Not Aliens -- Chapter 2. Migrant Modernisms -- Chapter 3. No Constitution for Us -- Chapter 4. Bordered Civil Rights -- Chapter 5. Tracking the New Migrants -- Chapter 6. Narrative Acts -- Chapter 7. Migrant Melancholia -- Afterword -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author

The Afro-Latin@ Reader -- Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Editorial Note -- Introduction -- I. Historical Background before 1900 -- Introduction -- The Earliest Africans in North America -- Black Pioneers: The Spanish-Speaking Afro-Americans of the Southwest -- Slave and Free Women of Color in the Spanish Ports of New Orleans, Mobile, and Pensacola -- Afro-Cubans in Tampa -- Excerpt from Pulling the Muse from the Drum -- II. Arturo Alfonso Schomburg -- Introduction -- Excerpt from "Racial Integrity: A Plea for the Establishment of a Chair of Negro History in Our Schools and Colleges," -- The World of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg -- Invoking Arturo Schomburg's Legacy in Philadelphia -- III. Afro-Latin@s on the Color Line -- Introduction -- Black Cuban, Black American -- A Puerto Rican in New York and Other Sketches -- Melba Alvarado, El Club Cubano Inter-Americano, and the Creation of Afro-Cubanidades in New York City -- An Uneven Playing Field: Afro-Latinos in Major League Baseball -- Changing Identities: An Afro-Latin@ Family Portrait -- ¡Eso era tremendo! An Afro-Cuban Musician Remembers -- IV. Roots of Salsa: Afro-Latin@ Popular Music -- Introduction -- From "Indianola" to "Ño Colá": The Strange Career of the Afro-Puerto Rican Musician -- Excerpt from cu/bop -- Bauzá–Gillespie–Latin/Jazz: Difference, Modernity, and the Black Caribbean -- Contesting that Damned Mambo: Arsenio Rodríguez and the People of El Barrio and the Bronx in the 1950s -- Boogaloo and Latin Soul -- Excerpt from the salsa of bethesda fountain -- V. Black Latin@ Sixties -- Introduction -- Hair Conking; Buy Black -- Carlos A. Cooks: Dominican Garveyite in Harlem, -- Down These Mean Streets -- African Things -- Black Notes and "You Do Something to Me," -- Before People Called Me a Spic, They Called Me a Nigger -- Excerpt from Jíbaro, My Pretty Nigger -- The Yoruba Orisha Tradition Comes to New York City -- Reflections and Lived Experiences of Afro-Latin@ Religiosity -- Discovering Myself: Un Testimonio -- Excerpt from Dominicanish -- VI. Afro-Latinas -- Introduction -- The Black Puerto Rican Woman in Contemporary American Society -- Something Latino Was Up with Us -- Excerpt from Poem for My Grifa-Rican Sistah, or Broken Ends Broken Promises -- Latinegras: Desired Women—Undesirable Mothers, Daughters, Sisters, and Wives -- Letter to a Friend -- Uncovering Mirrors: Afro-Latina Lesbian Subjects -- The Black Bellybutton of a Bongo -- VII. Public Images and (Mis)Representations -- Introduction -- Notes on Eusebia Cosme and Juano Hernández -- Desde el Mero Medio: Race Discrimination within the Latin@ Community -- Displaying Identity: Dominicans in the Black Mosaic of Washington, D.C. -- Bringing the Soul: Afros, Black Empowerment, and Lucecita Benítez -- Can BET Make You Black? Remixing and Reshaping Latin@s on Black Entertainment Television -- The Afro-Latino Connection: Can this group be the bridge to a broadbased Black-Hispanic alliance? -- VIII. Afro-Latin@s in the Hip Hop Zone -- Introduction -- Ghettocentricity, Blackness, and Pan-Latinidad -- Chicano Rap Roots: Afro-Mexico and Black-Brown Cultural Exchange -- The Rise and Fall of Reggaeton: From Daddy Yankee to Tego Calderón and Beyond -- Do Plátanos Go wit' Collard Greens? -- Divas Don't Yield -- IX. Living Afro-Latinidades -- Introduction -- An Afro-Latina's Quest for Inclusion -- Retracing Migration: From Samaná to New York and Back Again -- Negotiating among Invisibilities: Tales of Afro-Latinidades in the United States -- We Are Black Too: Experiences of a Honduran Garifuna -- Profile of an Afro-Latina: Black, Mexican, Both -- Enrique Patterson: Black Cuban Intellectual in Cuban Miami -- Reflections about Race by a Negrito Acomplejao -- Divisible Blackness: Reflections on Heterogeneity and Racial Identity -- Nigger-Reecan Blues -- X. Afro-Latin@s: Present and Future Tenses -- Introduction -- How Race Counts for Hispanic Americans -- Bleach in the Rainbow: Latino Ethnicity and Preference for Whiteness -- Brown Like Me? -- Against the Myth of Racial Harmony in Puerto Rico -- Mexican Ways, African Roots -- Afro-Latin@s and the Latin@ Workplace -- Racial Politics in Multiethnic America: Black and Latin@ Identities and Coalitions -- Afro-Latinism in United States Society: A Commentary -- Sources and Permissions -- Contributors -- Index