350 pages, 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
25 color and 30 B-W images and 19 tables
Hardcover
Release Date:14 Jan 2025
ISBN:9781978826182
Latinas/os in New Jersey
Histories, Communities, and Cultures
Rutgers University Press
Since the 1890s, New Jersey has attracted hundreds of thousands of Caribbean and Latin American migrants. The state’s rich economic history, high-income suburbs, and strong public sector have all contributed to attracting, retaining, and setting the stage for Latin American and Caribbean immigrants and secondary step migrants from New York City. Since the 1980s, however, Latinos have developed a more complex presence in the state’s political landscape and institutions. The emergence of Latino-majority towns and cities and coalition politics facilitated the election of Latino mayors, council persons and many social and community leaders, as well as the election of state-wide officers like US Senator Bob Menendez. This collection brings together innovative and empirically grounded scholarship from different disciplines and interdisciplinary fields of study and addresses topics including the demographic history of Latinos in the state, Latino migration from gateway cities to suburban towns, Latino urban enclaves, Latino economic and social mobility, Latino students and education, the New Jersey Dream Act and in-state tuition act organizing, Latinos and criminal justice reform, Latino electoral politics and leadership, and undocumented communities.
Contributors: Yamil Avivi; Jennifer Ayala; Ulla D. Berg; Giovani Burgos; Elsa Candelario; Laura Curran; Lilia Fernández; Ismael García Colón; Olga Jiménez de Wagenheim; Benjamin Lapidus; Aldo A. Lauria Santiago; Johana Londoño; Kathleen Lopez; Giancarlo Muschi; Melanie Z. Plasencia; Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas; Elena Sabogal; Raymond Sanchez Mayers; William Suárez Gómez; Alex F. Trillo; Daniela Valdez; Anil Venkatesh; Lyna L. Wiggins
Contributors: Yamil Avivi; Jennifer Ayala; Ulla D. Berg; Giovani Burgos; Elsa Candelario; Laura Curran; Lilia Fernández; Ismael García Colón; Olga Jiménez de Wagenheim; Benjamin Lapidus; Aldo A. Lauria Santiago; Johana Londoño; Kathleen Lopez; Giancarlo Muschi; Melanie Z. Plasencia; Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas; Elena Sabogal; Raymond Sanchez Mayers; William Suárez Gómez; Alex F. Trillo; Daniela Valdez; Anil Venkatesh; Lyna L. Wiggins
Latino New Jersey is the overdue comprehensive book on New Jersey’s Latinos. Covering ethnicities, sub-cultures, cities, and a range of current issues, the volume analyses this diverse group - one-fifth of the state's population - its challenges, hopes, and contributions. Educators, students, and policymakers will benefit from this rich collection of histories and analyses. The future of the Garden State can be gleaned from the accounts in this wonderful volume.
The editors not only provide up-to-date research on the demographic profile and trends among Latinos in New Jersey, but dare to venture further into the realms of the social sciences, history, education, and art and culture, and to put them each in conversation with one another. No other source has ever engaged with Latinos in the Garden State as deeply or profoundly as Latino New Jersey.
Preface by Olga Jiménez de Wagenheim
Introduction: Framing Latinos in New Jersey: From Invisibility to Empowerment by Aldo A. Lauria Santiago and Ulla D. Berg
Spaces and Places
1. Latino New Jersey: A Demographic and Geographic Portrait by Raymond Sanchez Mayers, Lyna L. Wiggins, Elsa Candelario, and Laura Curran
2. Latino Segregation across New Jersey Counties: Are Latino Groups becoming More or Less Residentially Segregated during the Last Four Decades? by Giovani Burgos, Alex F. Trillo, and Anil Venkatesh
3. The Gateway Reconsidered: The Paradox of Latinx Barrioization in a Connected Metropolis by Johana Londoño
4. From Havana on the Hudson to Bolivar’s Enclave: Change, Solidarity and Conflict in Pan-Latinx Space by Alex Trillo & Jennifer Ayala
5. "Aggressive Newark”: Puerto Ricans, Brazilians, and Structuring Feelings under Neoliberalism by Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas
Histories
6. Peruvians in Paterson, New Jersey, 1920-1950 by Giancarlo Muschi
7. “A Recoger Tomates”: Puerto Rican Farmworkers in the Garden State, 1940s-1980s by Ismael García Colón & William Suárez Gómez
8. Puerto Ricans in New Jersey: Migration, Settlement, and Work, 1940-1980 by Aldo A. Lauria Santiago
9. A Century of Cuban Music in New Jersey by Benjamin Lapidus
Experiences
10. Mexican Immigrants Fighting for Educational Justice: Community Activism to Save a New Brunswick Public School by Lilia Fernandez
11. Forgotten Voices: Gender and Social Networks in Paterson’s Peruvian Community by Elena Sabogal
12. “La Iglesia Católica es Mi Comunidad”: A Union City Latinx Destination from Arrival to Old Age by Melanie Z. Plasencia
13. Parque Oaxaca/Jotería: Trans Latina History in New Brunswick from Urban Renewal to the Coronavirus Pandemic by Daniela Valdes
Institutions
14. Reverse Diasporas: Immigrant Detention, Deportation, and Latinx Communities in New Jersey and South America by Ulla D. Berg
15. Latinx LGBTQ Students and Placemaking in School: Voguing and Ball Culture at Elizabeth High, 1989-1994 by Yamil Avivi
16. From Puerto Rican to Latino Studies at Rutgers University: Fifty Years of Student Activism by Kathleen López
Notes on Contributors
Index
Introduction: Framing Latinos in New Jersey: From Invisibility to Empowerment by Aldo A. Lauria Santiago and Ulla D. Berg
Spaces and Places
1. Latino New Jersey: A Demographic and Geographic Portrait by Raymond Sanchez Mayers, Lyna L. Wiggins, Elsa Candelario, and Laura Curran
2. Latino Segregation across New Jersey Counties: Are Latino Groups becoming More or Less Residentially Segregated during the Last Four Decades? by Giovani Burgos, Alex F. Trillo, and Anil Venkatesh
3. The Gateway Reconsidered: The Paradox of Latinx Barrioization in a Connected Metropolis by Johana Londoño
4. From Havana on the Hudson to Bolivar’s Enclave: Change, Solidarity and Conflict in Pan-Latinx Space by Alex Trillo & Jennifer Ayala
5. "Aggressive Newark”: Puerto Ricans, Brazilians, and Structuring Feelings under Neoliberalism by Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas
Histories
6. Peruvians in Paterson, New Jersey, 1920-1950 by Giancarlo Muschi
7. “A Recoger Tomates”: Puerto Rican Farmworkers in the Garden State, 1940s-1980s by Ismael García Colón & William Suárez Gómez
8. Puerto Ricans in New Jersey: Migration, Settlement, and Work, 1940-1980 by Aldo A. Lauria Santiago
9. A Century of Cuban Music in New Jersey by Benjamin Lapidus
Experiences
10. Mexican Immigrants Fighting for Educational Justice: Community Activism to Save a New Brunswick Public School by Lilia Fernandez
11. Forgotten Voices: Gender and Social Networks in Paterson’s Peruvian Community by Elena Sabogal
12. “La Iglesia Católica es Mi Comunidad”: A Union City Latinx Destination from Arrival to Old Age by Melanie Z. Plasencia
13. Parque Oaxaca/Jotería: Trans Latina History in New Brunswick from Urban Renewal to the Coronavirus Pandemic by Daniela Valdes
Institutions
14. Reverse Diasporas: Immigrant Detention, Deportation, and Latinx Communities in New Jersey and South America by Ulla D. Berg
15. Latinx LGBTQ Students and Placemaking in School: Voguing and Ball Culture at Elizabeth High, 1989-1994 by Yamil Avivi
16. From Puerto Rican to Latino Studies at Rutgers University: Fifty Years of Student Activism by Kathleen López
Notes on Contributors
Index
