... radio and its Latino listenership as equal peers reflects the larger economic marginalization of racialized bodies within U.S. capitalism. In addition, the social and institutional marginalization of U.S. Latinos signals the importance and necessity for more population-sensitive research methods. Given...

...This chapter explores the fragments arrachés of Alberto O'Farrill—the black writer and actor who appeared on the teatro bufo (Cuban minstrelsy) stage and in the New York City Latino newspapers La Prensa and El Gráfico from...

... Construction industry Home Housing Foucault Michel Heterotopias Hybridity Proto urbanism Bhabha Homi Others Representational space Third space Culture Prototopias Public realm Fraser Nancy García Canclini Néstor Homeplace Invisibility Latinidad Los Angeles Charlotte Latina residents Latino...

...This chapter examines a pattern of aspiration among first- and second-generation, low-income Latino youth participating in a public school biotechnology academy with corporate connections to Silicon Valley industry. In particular, it considers these Latino youth's desire to “give back...

...This chapter examines the education and training of Latino youth within the local and national context, with particular emphasis on the emergent civic agenda around the digital divide in Silicon Valley. It considers the political implications and historical context of this regional “civilizing...

... encounter a revolving cast of community people, from Ms. Stacy, who resents Latino migrants for taking jobs away from school-age Blacks, to Ms. Sanchez, whose community organizing work focuses on bridging the collective struggles of Black and Brown people. These actors give voice to the various groups...

... and region and then focuses on the Central Avenue corridor, a thoroughfare that passes through several Latino neighborhoods and a place of concentrated ethnic businesses, including music venues. The contemporary southern U.S. city must be understood in terms of struggles over immigration and the “right...

...This chapter reconstructs, through oral history and personal networks observed in study, the brief history of Latino musicians in Charlotte. While other Latin music scenes have emerged in U.S. cities, Charlotte is notable for the diversity of the musical styles being performed there and the intense...

... themselves as racial subjects; (2) the detrimental effects of racial profiling in immigration policing and the geography of racism in Charlotte; and (3) how Latino residents see Charlotte in the context of the U.S. South as a haven from racism and as a site for creating antiracist and nonracist community...

... this research means for a conceptualization of the city as a cultural center and for the future of Latino music in the U.S. South. After all, in the Latin music scene in Charlotte, musicians are making popular music in the midst of immense political, economic, and social change and despite the indifference...

.... The chapter also considers the Colombian government's burgeoning interest in the instrumentalization of (U.S.-)Colombian identity and the lack of scholarship in “commercial” Latin(o) popular music, which in turn negatively impacts our collective understanding of all Latino popular music and cultural...

...This chapter examines the impact of assimilation mechanisms on Latino immigrant families, with particular emphasis on how acute assimilation pressures prompt Latino adolescents and their parents to explore and adapt to the host culture. It begins with a discussion of assimilation theory and two...

...This chapter uses audience studies and focus groups to examine viewers' ability and willingness to decode racial subtexts in Ugly Betty. The findings suggest that while audiences do react positively to the Latino/a main characters, they were unable or unwilling to recognize...

... transnationalism Ugly Betty Africa American Girl Josefina Marisol Whiteness Dora the Explorer Bratz Postfeminism Celebrity Cosmopolitan cosmopolitanism Guzmán Isabel Molina Audience s Diaspora Tradition Latinidad globality hybridity racial systems Latino population media networks U.S. national...

...This chapter describes the Latino/a public sphere—spaces for deliberation such as politics, media, and so on where people can come together and positively influence the nation-state. Even though Latinos accounted for less than one percent of the elected officials in the nation (significantly lower...

...This chapter demonstrates how religion transcends race and ethnicity for the new second generation. At Mosaic, a multiracial evangelical church in Southern California, Latinos have chosen to leave their ethnic churches and worship in a multiracial community with whites, blacks, and Asians. Mosaic...

...This chapter looks at the attitudes toward religion and ethnicity among South Asian Muslim women and Latino Catholic women. On the one hand, Muslim women separate religion from culture and identify more strongly and affirmatively with Islam than with their ethnic culture. Latino Catholic Women...

...This chapter presents several Latino congregations and faith-based organizations that demonstrate the trend toward panethnic religious mobilization. Asserting that diverse Hispanic groups such as Puerto Ricans, Mexicans, and Dominicans have similar experiences, socioeconomic backgrounds...

...The introduction features scenes from Northeast LA including a poem titled “Taco Truck” by Lisa Marie Sandoval that describes a nocturnal interaction between a college student and a Latino taco vendor and his family. The scene at the annual Lummis Day Festival is described by the author...

.... The significance of art collectives in the revival of the Northeast Los Angeles art scene is discussed, with Chicano(a)/Latino(a) art collectives emerging in the 1970s and white artists through the Arroyo Arts Collective in the 1980s. The central figures and themes of the Latino/a arts renaissance are explored...