Latinx Studies

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Queer Relajo

Feeling the Nightscapes of Mexicanidad

By David Tenorio
Subjects: Sexuality Studies, Latinx Studies, Media Studies, New Media
Series: Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance

An escapade into the nightly ambience of Mexico City

Transformismo

Performing Trans/Queer Cuba

By M. Myrta Leslie Santana
Subjects: Music, Ethnomusicology, Theater and Performance, Latinx Studies, Gender Studies, Gay and Lesbian Studies, American Studies

How drag performance transforms the social landscape of Cuba and illuminates the island’s racial, sexual, and economic inequalities

Geographies of Relation

Diasporas and Borderlands in the Americas

By Theresa Delgadillo
Subjects: Latinx Studies, Literary Studies, American Literature, Literary Criticism and Theory, 20th Century Literature, Latin American Studies, American Studies, Theater and Performance, Poetry and Poetry Criticism

How diaspora and borderlands subjects from across the Americas have represented and performed their interrelationship

Down Syndrome Culture

Life Writing, Documentary, and Fiction Film in Iberian and Latin American Contexts

By Benjamin Fraser
Subjects: Disability Studies, Media Studies, Cinema Studies, Literary Studies, Modern Literature, Latinx Studies
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

Looking at Down syndrome representation from a global perspective

Transnational Philippines

Cultural Encounters in Philippine Literature in Spanish

Edited by Rocío Ortuño Casanova & Axel Gasquet
Subjects: Asian Studies, South/Southeast Asia, Literary Studies, Asian Literature, Cultural Studies, Latinx Studies

A study of Philippine literary production that attempts to break the nation’s isolation from broader Spanish literature

Latinx Shakespeares

Staging U.S. Intracultural Theater

By Carla Della Gatta
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Latinx Studies, Literary Studies, British and Irish Literatures

Investigates more than 140 Latinx-themed productions or adaptations of Shakespeare in the United States

Performance in the Zócalo

Constructing History, Race, and Identity in Mexico's Central Square from the Colonial Era to the Present

By Ana Martínez
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Latin American Studies, Latinx Studies

Quien domina el centro, domina el pais: Whoever dominates the center, dominates the country

Nuyorican Feminist Performance

From the Café to Hip Hop Theater

By Patricia Herrera
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Latinx Studies, Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, American Studies

Recovers and celebrates the contributions of women artists to the history of this iconic performance venue

Dialectical Imaginaries

Materialist Approaches to U.S. Latino/a Literature in the Age of Neoliberalism

Edited by Marcial Gonzalez & Carlos Gallego
Subjects: Literary Studies, 20th Century Literature, Literary Criticism and Theory, Latinx Studies, American Studies, American Literature
Series: Class : Culture

Gathers materialist readings that provide productive new insights on Latino/a literature in the neoliberal era

Freak Performances

Dissidence in Latin American Theater

By Analola Santana
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Disability Studies, American Studies, Latin American Studies, Literary Studies, Latinx Studies

Explores how theater artists challenge the legacy of colonialism in Latin America through performance

Sites of Translation

What Multilinguals Can Teach Us about Digital Writing and Rhetoric

By Laura Gonzales
Subjects: Latinx Studies, Cultural Studies, Race and Ethnicity, Digital Projects
Series: Sweetland Digital Rhetoric Collaborative

A groundbreaking study of the inventive intellectual work performed by multilingual communicators who translate information in academic and professional spaces—Winner of the 2016 DRC Book Prize!

Pivotal Voices, Era of Transition

Toward a 21st Century Poetics

By Rigoberto Gonzalez
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Latinx Studies, Sexuality Studies
Series: Poets on Poetry

A volume in the Poets on Poetry series, which collects critical works by contemporary poets, gathering together the articles, interviews, and book reviews by which they have articulated the poetics of a new generation.

Latin Numbers

Playing Latino in Twentieth-Century U.S. Popular Performance

By Brian Eugenio Herrera
Subjects: American Studies, Theater and Performance, Latinx Studies, Media Studies, Dance

From the conga line to West Side Story to Ricky Martin, how popular performance prompted American audiences to view Latinos as a distinct (and distinctly non-white) ethnic group

¡Muy Pop!

Conversations on Latino Popular Culture

By Frederick Luis Aldama & Ilan Stavans
Subjects: Latinx Studies, Cultural Studies, Media Studies

A book-length conversation between two leading scholars on the themes and questions of Hispanic popular culture

Mex-Ciné

Mexican Filmmaking, Production, and Consumption in the Twenty-first Century

By Frederick Luis Aldama
Subjects: Latinx Studies, Media Studies, Cinema Studies, Race and Ethnicity

A multidisciplinary investigation of contemporary Mexican cinema

Performing Queer Latinidad

Dance, Sexuality, Politics

By Ramon H. Rivera-Servera
Subjects: Theater and Performance, American Studies, Latinx Studies, Sexuality Studies, Cultural Studies, Dance
Series: Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance

The place of performance in unifying an urban LGBT population of diverse Latin American descent

Ethnic Cues

The Role of Shared Ethnicity in Latino Political Participation

By Matt Barreto
Subjects: Race and Ethnicity, Latinx Studies, Political Science, American Politics, Race and Politics
Series: The Politics of Race and Ethnicity

Does placing a Latino candidate on the ticket mobilize Latino voters?

The Lover of a Subversive Is Also a Subversive

Essays and Commentaries

By Martin Espada
Subjects: Latinx Studies, Literary Studies, Essay and Interview, Writing
Series: Poets on Poetry

Essays from a nationally acclaimed Latino poet

An Angle of Vision

Women Writers on Their Poor and Working-Class Roots

Edited by Lorraine Lopez
Subjects: Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Class Studies, American Studies, Literary Studies, American Literature, Memoir, Latinx Studies
Series: Class : Culture

Uncommon perspectives by prominent women writers on class, money, family, and home

Chicano Novels and the Politics of Form

Race, Class, and Reification

By Marcial Gonzalez
Subjects: Literary Studies, American Literature, Latinx Studies, Class Studies, American Studies
Series: Class : Culture

Explores the relationship between race and class and between politics and literary form in major works of Chicano literature over the last hundred years

Queering Mestizaje

Transculturation and Performance

By Alicia Arrizon
Subjects: American Studies, Theater and Performance, Sexuality Studies, Latinx Studies
Series: Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance

Rethinking mestizaje and how it functions as an epistemology of colonialism in diverse sites from Aztlán to Manila, and across a range of cultural materials

The Color of Privilege

Three Blasphemies on Race and Feminism

By Aida Hurtado
Subjects: Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Psychology, African American Studies, American Studies, Race and Ethnicity, Latinx Studies

Sheds new light on women's differing responses to feminism according to factors of ethnicity and race

Taking It to the Streets

The Social Protest Theater of Luis Valdez and Amiri Baraka

By Harry Justin Elam
Subjects: Theater and Performance, African American Studies, Latinx Studies, American Studies
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

An original and valuable assessment of American political theater in the 1960s and 1970s

Forged under the Sun/Forjada bajo el sol

The Life of Maria Elena Lucas

Edited by Fran Leeper Buss
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, History, Latinx Studies, Class Studies
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