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Aloha Compadre
Latinxs in Hawai'i
Rutgers University Press
Aloha Compadre is the first study to examine the collective history and contemporary experiences of the Latinx population of Hawaiʻi. It reveals that contrary to popular discourse, Latinx migration to Hawaiʻi is not a recent event. From the early 1830s to the present, Latinx communities have been a part of the cultural landscape of Hawaiʻi prior to annexation, territorial status, and statehood.
Indigeneity in Real Time
The Digital Making of Oaxacalifornia
Rutgers University Press
By launching cutting-edge Internet radio stations and multimedia platforms and engaging as influencers, Zapotec and Ayuujk peoples paved their own paths to a transnational lifeway between Mexico and the United States during the Trump era. Their novel digital formats put into practice political visions concerning Indigenous communality across vast distances—in real time.
Elena, Princesa of the Periphery
Disney’s Flexible Latina Girl
Rutgers University Press
Princesa of the Periphery explores Disney’s Elena of Avalor. Focusing on girlhood and Latinidad, Leon-Boys studies the complex relationship between the U.S.’s largest ethnic minority and Disney as a global media conglomerate. The analysis demonstrates that Elena’s existence within the Disney universe is indicative of the overall presence of Latinxs in popular culture, media, and the nation.
The "Puerto Rican Problem" in Postwar New York City
Rutgers University Press
This book presents the first comprehensive examination of the campaign and narrative of the "Puerto Rican problem" in New York City from 1945 to 1960. It looks at how this campaign influenced the incorporation of Puerto Ricans to the US, the policies of the governments of Puerto Rico and New York, and the ways Puerto Ricans were perceived by Americans for decades.
Day of the Dead in the USA, Second Edition
The Migration and Transformation of a Cultural Phenomenon
Rutgers University Press
Examining the influence of media, commercialization and globalization on the growth and transformation of Day of the Dead celebrations in the US, Regina Marchi combines ethnography, oral history and critical cultural analysis to provide insights into the power of cultural hybridity and invented traditions to communicate about identity, history and politics.
Embodied Economies
Diaspora and Transcultural Capital in Latinx Caribbean Fiction and Theater
By Israel Reyes
Rutgers University Press
Embodied Economies compares works of Latinx Caribbean fiction and theater that explore the pitfalls and successes of economic upward mobility in diasporic communities. Each chapter compares two works in a counterpoint analysis that reveals the contradictions of using Latinx Caribbean culture to get ahead in the competitive fields of education, business, entertainment, and finance.
Latinas on the Line
Invisible Information Workers in Telecommunications
Rutgers University Press
Latinas on the Line: Invisible Information Workers in Telecommunications brings to attention the histories of Latinas in telecommunications, demonstrating how these histories contribute to the larger canons on Latina labor, communications, race, gender, and social constructions of technology. Through their intersectional identities, Latinas in telecommunications offer particular insights to the history of telecommunications and their own ‘belonging’ within these technological spaces.
Precarity and Belonging
Labor, Migration, and Noncitizenship
Edited by Catherine S. Ramírez, Sylvanna M. Falcón, Juan Poblete, Steven C. McKay, and Felicity Amaya Schaeffer
Rutgers University Press
Approaching mobility, precarity, and citizenship at once generates a critical exploration of the points of contact and friction and the potential politics of commonality between citizens and noncitizens. What does modern citizenship mean in a world of citizens, denizens, and noncitizens living under common conditions of labor and social precarity? Precarity and Belonging interrogates such binaries as citizen/noncitizen, and “legal”/“illegal” to explore the fluidity of the spectra of belonging.
Precarity and Belonging
Labor, Migration, and Noncitizenship
Edited by Catherine S. Ramírez, Sylvanna M. Falcón, Juan Poblete, Steven C. McKay, and Felicity Amaya Schaeffer
Rutgers University Press
Approaching mobility, precarity, and citizenship at once generates a critical exploration of the points of contact and friction and the potential politics of commonality between citizens and noncitizens. What does modern citizenship mean in a world of citizens, denizens, and noncitizens living under common conditions of labor and social precarity? Precarity and Belonging interrogates such binaries as citizen/noncitizen, and “legal”/“illegal” to explore the fluidity of the spectra of belonging.
Deportes
The Making of a Sporting Mexican Diaspora
Rutgers University Press
Deportes uncovers the hidden experiences of Mexican male and female athletes, teams and leagues and their supporters who fought for a more level playing field on both sides of the border. They proved that they could compete in a wide variety of sports at amateur, semiprofessional, Olympic and professional levels.
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