...Unbelonging: Inauthentic Sounds in Mexican and Latinx Aesthetics argues that racial belonging in the United States and Mexico has historically required legible forms of performance to prove one’s allegiance to one’s own ethnic group, alongside the US nation-state. In particular...

...The introduction considers questions of latinidad vis-à-vis the work and life of artist Zilia Sánchez. Concentrating on her 1968 work, “El significado del signficante,” the introduction reads Sánchez’s work and its reception to consider how Latinx works function referentially and rhetorically...

...This essay explores how Latinx activate working-class hyperfemininities as a relational practice. The forms of relation I center on in this essay would be called chongivity activity by Latinx in Miami, Florida, who use the term when observing the collaborative troublemaking...

...This chapter explores university civic engagement efforts that emphasize a Latinx community-academic praxis and centers social justice, equity, reciprocity, and the importance of Latinx voices in creating a more just world. Tracing alternative histories and critical approaches to civic engagement...

...This chapter reflects on the responsibility of teaching Latinx studies as praxis of social justice and accompaniment. Insisting on the classroom as a space for co-creating, the author challenges Latinx Studies teachers, calling them to enact in the classroom the change they want to see in the world...

... by identifying capacities that strengthen community resilience, such as high levels of belonging and civic participation. However, this chapter also reveals how a lack of trust among black and Latinx residents, communication failures between local disaster management and residents, and weak hurricane risk...

... to factors such as national origin, ethnicity, race, and gender. The chapters include close analysis of the historical experiences of Latinx and African American Catholics as well as European immigrant Catholics. Eschewing a national or nationalistic focus that might elide or neglect global connections...

... as white. Iraqis who came to the Inland Empire’s majority-Latinx neighborhoods found themselves in an America they had not anticipated, prompting some to ask, “Where are the Americans?” While the Latinx-Iraqi interactions evoked frustration, confusion, and ambivalence toward an unexpected cultural reality...

... the experiences of Latinx men, particularly queer Latinx men, and even less about how members of this group understand femininity, or the embodiment of male femininities. This chapter seeks to make an intervention in race and gender scholarship by exploring the way a group of Latinx queer men make sense of male...

...Critical Dialogues in Latinx Studies approaches the social histories and contemporary lives of a diverse range of Latina and Latino populations, including immigrants, exiles, refugees, and US-born groups from across the Americas. Adopting a comparative ethnic studies lens...

...This chapter examines the devastating impact of neoliberal education reform experimentation in African American and Latinx communities in Denver. It explores how school reform, as a racial project and a settler colonialist project, operates as a lived experience for Black and Latinx low-income...

...Inspired by Jesús Colón's A Puerto Rican in New York and Other Sketches, the introduction highlights the role that history, memoir, and autobiographical fiction invariably play in most empirically sound and theoretically sophisticated Latinx humanistic social sciences. The open...

... this landmark moment, one must reflect on how Latinx Saints maneuver faith, immigration, and belonging. To understand the contemporary experience of Latina/o members of the LDS Church, one must account for the role millennial Latina/o/x members navigate American nationalism embedded in the faith. Exploring...

... structures of (im)mobility affecting the lives of deportees and their families and communities. Based on ethnographic fieldwork with Peruvians who were deported to Lima and Callao from the United States between 2009 and 2017, and operating at the intersection of Latinx and Latin American Studies...

... after Hurricane María destroyed Puerto Rico in 2017. I expand this analysis with a personal testimonio regarding the decolonizing role of Latinx Studies as a field that creates a sense of collective belonging for a Diasporican feminist scholar like me, who has embraced Latinidad in the United States...

... diverse. In this chapter, the author explores how NPR defines its ideal Latinx listener and the resources it invests in creating relevant programming for that listener. At 18 percent of the US population, Latinxs are becoming an increasingly important part of the American electorate that NPR is tasked...

...Kids at Work is the first book to look at the participation of child street vendors in the United States. The children portrayed in this book are the children of undocumented Latinx immigrants who are relegated to street vending because they lack opportunities to work in the formal...

...This book argues that increasingly punitive federal immigration policies in the United States have led to medical legal violence that unites criminal law, immigration enforcement, and health care policy to harm many Latinx immigrants and their families. This type of violence...

... Latinidad Milian Claudia Butler Judith Gopinath Gayatri space Chambers Ian migration Muñoz José Esteban world making Central America Central American Federal Trade Agreement CAFTA Beverly John violence Zimmerman Marc Hall Stuart Central American-American Central America Latinx diaspora...