Table of Contents:
  • Marks of the chicana corpus : an intervention in the universality debate / helena maria viramontes
  • the new latin nation : immigration and the hispanic population of the united states / alejandro portes
  • "dime con quién hablas, y te diré quién eres" : linguistic (in)security and latina/o unity / ana celia zentella
  • (re)constructing latinidad : the challenge of latina/o studies / frances r. aparicio
  • the name game : locating latinas/os, latins, and latin americans in the us popular music landscape / deborah pacini hernández
  • cuando dios y usted quiere : latina/o studies between religious powers and social thought / david carrasco
  • latina/o cultural expressions : a view of us society through the eyes of the subaltern / edna acosta-belén
  • josé limón, the devil and the dance / jose e. limón
  • the everyday civil war : migrant labor, capital, and latina/o studies / nicholas de genova
  • the powers of women's words : oral traditions and performance art / yolanda broyles-gonzález
  • language and other lethal weapons : cultural politics and the rites of children as translators of culture / antonio i. castañeda
  • looking for papi : longing and desire among chicano gay men / tomás almaguer
  • on becoming / nelly rosario
  • of heretics and interlopers / arturo madrid
  • coloring class : racial constructions in twentieth-century chicana/o historiography / vicki ruiz
  • "el louie" by jośe montoya : an appreciation / raúl villa
  • preservation matters : research, community, and the archive / chon a. noriega
  • the star in my compass / virginia sánchez korrol
  • "y que pasara con jovenes como miguel fernandez?" : education, immigration, and the future of latinas/os in the united states / pedro a. noguera
  • latinas/os and the elusive queso for equal education / sonia nieto
  • the moral monster : hispanics recasting honor and respectability behind bars / patricia fernández-kelly
  • a rebellious philosophy born in east la / gerald p. lópez
  • latinas/os at the threshold of the information age : telecommunications challenges and opportunities / jorge reina schement
  • conceptualizing the latina experience in care work / mary romero
  • surviving aids in an uneven world : latina/o studies for a brown epidemic / carlos ulises decena
  • post-movimiento : the contemporary (re)generation of chicana/o art / tomás ybarra-frausto
  • "god bless the law, he is white" : legal, local, and international politics of latina/o and black desegregation cases in post-world war ii california and texas / neil foley
  • latinas/os and the mestizo racial heritage of mexican americans / martha menchaca
  • looking at that middle ground : racial mixing as a panacea? / miriam jiménez-román
  • color matters : latina/o racial identities and life chances / ginetta e.b. candelario
  • between blackness and latinidad in the hip hop zone / raquel z. rivera
  • afro-latinas/os and the racial wall / silvio torres-saillant
  • the (w)rite to remember : indigena as scribe 2004-5 (an excerpt) / cherrie moraga
  • "how i learned to love salseros when my hair was a mess" by edwin torres : a comment / edwin torres
  • reflections on thirty years of critical practice in chicana/o cultural studies / yvonne yarbro-bejarano
  • social aesthetics and the transnational imaginary / ramón saldívar
  • the taino identity movement among caribbean latinas/os in the united states / gabriel haslip-viera
  • looking good / frances negrón-muntaner
  • "chico, what does it feel like to be a problem?" : the transmission of brownness / josé esteban muñoz
  • "fantasy heritage" : tracking latina bloodlines / rosa linda fregoso
  • latinas/os and latin america : topics, destinies, disciplines / román de la campa
  • latinas/os and the (re)racializing of us society and politics / suzanne oboler
  • refugees or economic immigrants? : immigration from latin america and the politics of us refugee policy / maria cristina garcía
  • inter-american ethnography : tracking salvadoran transnationality at the borders of latina/o and latin american studies / elana zilberg
  • from the borderlands to the transnational? : critiquing empire in the twenty-first century / maria josefina saldaña-portillo.