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The fifth critical diálogo unpacks the notion of “deservingness,” by considering the material, spiritual, and emotional labor that becomes tacitly or explicitly associated with racialized and immigrant populations. The question that frames this critical diálogo is: How have material production, capitalist accumulation, and human subjectivity become mutually constitutive in the world of Latinx work? We view “work” as a complex series of practices that can range from the world of “reputable” paid work, activism, and religious belonging, to a world of work not readily legible to neoliberalism. To approach this question, the essays in this diálogo push against conventional understandings of work and labor. Larry LaFontaine documents the role of Puerto Rican trans activist Sylvia Rivera in LGBTQ not-for-profit work, while Sujey Vega discusses the role of Latinx members of the Church of the Latter-day Saints in immigrant activism within a Mormon context.
Centering on the role of creativity, joy, and pleasure in Latinx Studies, Albert Laguna analyzes the performances of the ludic in recasting narratives of Cuban America, while Johanna Lodoño highlights the role of professional Latinx architects, urban planners, and designers in constructions of deservingness and belonging through the built environment. Contextualizing the cultural work of Bronx Puerto Rican photographers, Sebastián Pérez sheds new light on social life in communal spaces. This new approach to “work” allows us to question dominant characterization of Latinx communities as invariably destitute and always-already pleasureless by demonstrating the place of pleasure, joy, laughter, scripture, and creativity in spatial and community building struggles.
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