Flores Juan / ROSALDO RENATO

Gebundenes Buch

A Companion to Latina/O Studies

Beschreibung

A Companion to Latina/o Studies is a collection of 45 original essays written by leading scholars in the Latina/o studies field. These writers explore themes spanning great depths of creative scholarship, and the essays cover everything from theories of latinismo, immigration, education, language and religion; to discussions on political and economic perspectives, and race, class, gender, and sexuality. The volume also explores broader questions encompassing history, identity, public representations, and cultural expression within the Latino community. The racialization of African and Native American heritages is examined as well. The Companion provides thoughtful insights into what is now undeniably the largest minority in the United States, and is an essential resource for all scholars in the growing field of Latina/o Studies.

Autor

Juan Flores is currently Professor of Latino Studies in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University. For many years he has taught Puerto Rican and Latino Studies at the City University of New York (CUNY) and in the Sociology Program at CUNY Graduate Center. He is the author of Divided Borders, La venganza de Cortijo, From Bomba to Hip-Hop, and Poetry in East Germany, and co-editor of On Edge: The Crisis of Contemporary Latin American Culture. Among his other publications are the translations of Memoirs of Bernardo Vega and Cortijo's Wake/El entierro de Cortijo by Edgardo Rodríguez Juliá. A Chicano scholar, Renato Rosaldo is Lucy Stern Professor Emeritus at Stanford where he taught for many years, and he now teaches at NYU where he was founding Director of the Latino Studies Program. His books include Ilongot Headhunting, 1883-1974 and Culture and Truth. A collection of his essays, Renato Rosaldo: Ensayos en antropología crítica, was recently published in Mexico. He has edited a collection, Cultural Citizenship in Island Southeast Asia, and also co-edited collections, The Incas and the Aztecs, 1400-1800, Creativity/Anthropology, and The Anthropology of Globalization: A Reader. Written in English and Spanish, his first collection of poetry, Prayer to Spider Woman/Rezo a la mujer araña, won an American Book Award, 2004. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 560
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Oktober 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 248mm x 182mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 1152g
• ISBN-13: 9781405126229
• ISBN-10: 1405126221
• Artikelnr.: 22825858

Rezensionen

"[The] present volume provides researchers and academics withdetailed information on a wide range of issues. It offers materialfor study both to the growing numbers in the academic communityundertaking research on Latin American affairs as well as forsociologists in general.... The information to be gleaned from thisvolume will more than repay the price of £95." (ReferenceReviews, April 2009)

"An amazing collection of original essays that displays thematurity, complexity, and diversity of Latina/o Studies today.Creative, bold, and provocative, these writings mark thetransformation of the field into the hands of a new generation ofinterdisciplinary scholars."
George J. Sanchez, University of Southern California