Critical Dialogues in Latinx Studies: A Reader

Critical Dialogues in Latinx Studies is a groundbreaking anthology that offers a multidisciplinary, social-science-oriented perspective on Latinx studies, combining previously published canonical pieces with original, cutting-edge works. It explores the diversity and complexity of Latinx populations' everyday lives, political economic structures, and efforts to carve out new lives as diasporic, transnational, global, and colonial subjects.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 592 pages
Publication date: 21 October 2021
Publisher: New York University Press

This groundbreaking work offers a multidisciplinary, social-science-oriented perspective on Latinx studies, including the social histories and contemporary lives of a diverse range of Latina and Latino populations. Editors Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas and Mérida M. Rúa have crafted an anthology that is unique in both form and content. The book combines previously published canonical pieces with original, cutting-edge works created for this volume. The sections of the text are arranged thematically as critical dialogues, each with a brief preface that provides context and a conceptual direction for the scholarly conversation that ensues. The editors frame the volume around the "humanistic social sciences," using the term to highlight the historical and social contexts under which expressive cultural forms and archival records are created. Critical Dialogues in Latinx Studies masterfully sheds light on the diversity and complexity of the everyday lives of Latinx populations, the political economic structures that shape enduring racialization and cultural stereotyping, and the continuing efforts to carve out new lives as diasporic, transnational, global, and colonial subjects.

This groundbreaking work offers a multidisciplinary, social-science-oriented perspective on Latinx studies, including the social histories and contemporary lives of a diverse range of Latina and Latino populations. Editors Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas and Mérida M. Rúa have crafted an anthology that is unique in both form and content. The book combines previously published canonical pieces with original, cutting-edge works created for this volume. The sections of the text are arranged thematically as critical dialogues, each with a brief preface that provides context and a conceptual direction for the scholarly conversation that ensues. The editors frame the volume around the "humanistic social sciences," using the term to highlight the historical and social contexts under which expressive cultural forms and archival records are created. Critical Dialogues in Latinx Studies masterfully sheds light on the diversity and complexity of the everyday lives of Latinx populations, the political economic structures that shape enduring racialization and cultural stereotyping, and the continuing efforts to carve out new lives as diasporic, transnational, global, and colonial subjects.

Weight: 1090g
Dimension: 255 x 179 x 36 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781479805211