Flores / Rosaldo A Companion to Latina/o Studies

1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-0-470-76602-6
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 560 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Blackwell Companions in Cultural Studies

A Companion to Latina/o Studies is a collection of 40original essays written by leading scholars in the field, dedicatedto exploring the question of what 'Latino/a' is.
* * Brings together in one volume a diverse range of originalessays by established and emerging scholars in the field ofLatina/o Studies
* Offers a timely reference to the issues, topics, and approachesto the study of US Latinos - now the largest minority population inthe United States
* Explores the depth of creative scholarship in this field,including theories of latinisimo, immigration, political andeconomic perspectives, education, race/class/gender and sexuality,language, and religion
* Considers areas of broader concern, including history,identity, public representations, cultural expression andracialization (including African and Native Americanheritage).

Autoren/Hrsg.

Flores, Juan

Rosaldo, Renato

Über Autor(innen)

Juan Flores is currently Professor of Latino Studies in theDepartment of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University.For many years he has taught Puerto Rican and Latino Studies at theCity University of New York (CUNY) and in the Sociology Program atCUNY Graduate Center. He is the author of Divided Borders, Lavenganza de Cortijo, From Bomba to Hip-Hop, and Poetry inEast Germany, and co-editor of On Edge: The Crisis ofContemporary Latin American Culture. Among his otherpublications are the translations of Memoirs of BernardoVega and Cortijo's Wake/El entierro de Cortijo byEdgardo Rodríguez Juliá.
A Chicano scholar, Renato Rosaldo is Lucy Stern ProfessorEmeritus at Stanford where he taught for many years, and he nowteaches at NYU where he was founding Director of the Latino StudiesProgram. His books include Ilongot Headhunting,1883-1974 and Culture and Truth. A collection ofhis essays, Renato Rosaldo: Ensayos en antropologíacrítica, was recently published in Mexico. He has edited acollection, Cultural Citizenship in Island Southeast Asia,and also co-edited collections, The Incas and the Aztecs,1400-1800, Creativity/Anthropology, and TheAnthropology of Globalization: A Reader. Written in English andSpanish, his first collection of poetry, Prayer to SpiderWoman/Rezo a la mujer araña, won an American Book Award,2004. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts andSciences.