Latinx Belonging: Community Building and Resilience in the United States by Natalia Deeb-Sossa, Jennifer Bickham Mendez, Natalia Deeb-Sossa, Jennifer Bickham Mendez

Latinx Belonging: Community Building and Resilience in the United States
Natalia Deeb-Sossa, Jennifer Bickham Mendez, Natalia Deeb-Sossa, Jennifer Bickham Mendez
Page: 312
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ISBN: 9780816541003
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
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What does it mean to be Latinx? This pressing question forms the core of Latinx Belonging, which brings together cutting-edge research to discuss the multilayered ways this might be answered.

Latinx Belonging is anchored in the claim that Latinx people are not defined by their marginalization but should instead be understood as active participants in their communities and contributors to U.S. society. The volume’s overarching analytical approach recognizes the differences, identities, and divisions among people of Latin American origin in the United States, while also attending to the power of mainstream institutions to shape their lives and identities. Contributors to this volume view “belonging” as actively produced through struggle, survival, agency, resilience, and engagement.

This work positions Latinxs’ struggles for recognition and inclusion as squarely located within intersecting power structures of gender, race, sexuality, and class and as shaped by state-level and transnational forces such as U.S. immigration policies and histories of colonialism. From the case of Latinxs’ struggles for recognition in the arts, to queer Latinx community resilience during COVID-19 and in the wake of mass shootings, to Indigenous youth’s endurance and survival as unaccompanied minors in Los Angeles, the case studies featured in this collection present a rich and textured picture of the diversity of the U.S. Latinx experience in the twenty-first century. Contributors
 Andrés Acosta
 Jack “Trey” Allen
 Jennifer Bickham Mendez
 Stephanie L. Canizales
 Christopher Cuevas
 Natalia Deeb-Sossa
 Yvette G. Flores
 Melanie Jones Gast
 Monika Gosin
 Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo
 Nolan Kline
 Verónica Montes
 Yvonne Montoya
 Michael De Anda Muñiz
 Suzanne Oboler
 Gilda L. Ochoa
 Dina G. Okamoto
 Marco Antonio Quiroga
 Michelle Téllez

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