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This book highlights cutting-edge articles published in the journal, Latino Studies, over the last two decades. It features the work of leading and emerging scholars whose innovative theoretical and conceptual contributions to Latinx studies have shaped scholarly debates in our interdisciplinary field and continue to have an impact. This collection embraces a broad range of topics organized in four sections representative of major themes in Latinx studies including: Latinidades/Identidades, Race/Racialization, Migration/Immigration, and Legality/Citizenship/Belonging. Latino Studies: A 20th Year Anniversary Reader will be an indispensable resource for students and scholars looking for a robust interdisciplinary introduction to Latinx studies, the pivotal issues and debates that have shaped the field over the recent past, and directions for future research. Lourdes Torres is Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies atDePaul University. She is editor of Latino Studies and author of Puerto Rican Discourse: A Sociolinguistic Study of a New York Suburb. Her co-authored book Spanish in Chicago is forthcoming. Marisa Alicea is Professor of Sociology and an affiliate faculty member of the Latin American and Latino Studies Department at DePaul University. She is co-author of Surviving Heroin: Interviews with Women in Methadone Clinics and co-editor of Migration and Immigration: A Global View. Marisa currently serves an associate editor of Latino Studies.

Hispanic Americans. --- Ethnology --- Culture. --- Latino Culture. --- Latin America.

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This book explores how Chicana literature often represents gender violence while simultaneously presenting strategies of survival in response. Adrianna M. Santos aims to contribute to a broader conversation concerning the intersections between Chicana literature and decolonial trauma theory, one which questions the colonial matrix of power and the universality of Western knowledge. Santos argues that Chicana survival narratives arise out of colonial wounds and form scars that both mark and protect the violated body. Cicatrix Poetics, Trauma and Healing in the Literary Borderlands proposes a “cicatrix poetics” that makes bold gestures toward healing and narrative/storytelling as survival. The book contends that the cicatrix fashioned through artistic expression is a necessary component for Chicana communities—not just to survive, but to thrive. The books presents several case studies that examine transformative narrativity and by theorizing the texts as survival narratives,social protest works that bring attention to violence and erasure, the chapters explore how literature can be an effective catalyst for both social change and personal transformation, an orientation towards freedom, liberation through love. Adrianna M. Santos is Associate Professor of English at Texas A&M University–San Antonio, USA, and advisor of the Mexican American Student Association. She has published in Aztlán, Chicana/Latina Studies, Shakespeare Bulletin and Latina Critical Feminism and is co-editor of The Bard in the Borderlands, and El Mundo Zurdo 8. .

America --- Comparative literature. --- Literature --- Feminism and literature. --- Ethnology --- Culture. --- Psychic trauma. --- North American Literature. --- Comparative Literature. --- Feminist Literary Theory. --- Latino Culture. --- Trauma Psychology. --- Literatures. --- Philosophy. --- Latin America.

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It is widely recognized that Latinos are a sizable and diverse population and that they are a young demographic. The median age of non-Hispanic white Americans is 58, whereas for Latinos it is 30. Perhaps this partially explains the dearth of attention afforded to the topic of aging Latinos by academic scholarship and the mainstream media. This book compellingly alerts us to the reality that there is a growing, aging Latino population about which we know very little and that deserves our attention. The book responds to this significant gap in our knowledge with an exciting set of academic articles and creative contributions that challenges not only our assumptions about Latinos and aging but also our thinking on the types of contributions in an academic context. The contributors make the case that the story of Latino elderhood is best conveyed through a truly multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary approach, bringing together public policy, humanistic social sciences, and artistic interventions. Previously published as a Special Issue in the journal: Latino Studies "Special Issue: The Art of Latina and Latino Elderhood".

Art --- History. --- Art history --- History of art --- Ethnology --- Culture. --- Latin American Culture. --- Latino Culture. --- Art History. --- Latin America. --- Cultural sociology --- Culture --- Sociology of culture --- Civilization --- Popular culture --- Social aspects

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America --- religion --- world religions --- American history --- European history --- religious diversity --- religious events --- religious personalities --- religious pluralism --- American religious life --- colonization --- post-modernity --- independence --- Native Americans --- Africa --- African Americans --- Roman Catholics --- Jewish immigration --- Latino culture --- Hinduism --- Buddhism --- American civil religion

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This book explores the textured process of rewriting and revising theatrical works in the Spanish-speaking Caribbean as both a material and metaphorical practice. Deftly tracing these themes through community theater groups, ancient Greek theater, religious traditions, and national historical events, Katherine Ford weaves script, performance and final product together with an eye to the social significance of revision. Ultimately, to rewrite and revise is to re-envision and re-imagine stage practices in the twentieth-century Hispanic Caribbean.

Theater --- History. --- Dramatics --- Histrionics --- Professional theater --- Stage --- Theatre --- Performing arts --- Acting --- Actors --- Ethnology-Latin America. --- Theater-History. --- Performing arts. --- Latin America-Politics and gover. --- Latin American Culture. --- Theatre History. --- Latino Culture. --- Performing Arts. --- Latin American Politics. --- Show business --- Arts --- Performance art --- Ethnology—Latin America. --- Theater—History. --- Latin America—Politics and government.