A Companion to Latina/o Studies [Paperback]

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• Brings together in one volume a diverse range of original essays by established and emerging scholars in the field of Latina/o Studies
  
• Offers a timely reference to the issues, topics, and approaches to the study of US Latinos - now the largest minority population in the United States
  
• Explores the depth of creative scholarship in this field, including theories of latinisimo, immigration, political and economic perspectives, education, race/class/gender and sexuality, language, and religion
  
• Considers areas of broader concern, including history, identity, public representations, cultural expression and racialization (including African and Native American heritage).

Notes on Contributors ix

Editors’ Foreword xxi

Acknowledgments xxvii

Part I Latinidades

1 Marks of the Chicana Corpus: An Intervention in the Universality Debate 3
Helena María Viramontes

2 The New Latin Nation: Immigration and the Hispanic Population of the United States 15
Alejandro Portes

3 “Dime con quién hablas, y te diré quién eres”: Linguistic (In)security and Latina/o Unity 25
Ana Celia Zentella

4 (Re)constructing Latinidad: The Challenge of Latina/o Studies 39
Frances R. Aparicio

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