Critical Dialogues in Latinx Studies

Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas (Editor) Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas is Professor in the programs in American Studies and Ethnicity, Race & Migration at Yale University. She is the author of Street Therapists: Race, Affect, and Neoliberal Personhood in Latino Newark and National Performances: The Politics of Class, Race, and Space in Puerto Rican Chicago and co-author of Latino Crossings: Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, and the Politics of Race and Citizenship. Merida M. Rua (Editor) Merida M. Rua is Professor in the Latina and Latino Studies Program at Northwestern University. She is editor of Latino Urban Ethnography and the Work of Elena Padilla and author of A Grounded Identidad: Making New Lives in Chicago's Puerto Rican Neighborhoods.

"Brilliantly crafted. . . . Brings together a wide range of scholars and offers a fresh take on Latinx Studies through its discussion of nine key dialogos that touch upon the social histories and contemporary experiences of diverse Latinx populations including immigrants, exiles, refugees, and US-born groups of various backgrounds. . . . Blurs the boundaries between the humanities and social sciences, making the modes of analysis in every chapter special and unique. Ramos-Zayas and Rua have put together an incredibly rich volume that has something for everyone." - Glenda M. Flores, author of Latina Teachers: Creating Careers and Guarding Culture "Capacious, lively, beautifully organized. . . . Contributors cover colonization and decolonization, race and racialization, differing migration histories, gendered and queer experiences, language and the politics of labeling, cultural production, humor, religion, and the carceral, punitive states Latinx populations must navigate. But they also document past and present Latinx activisms, and open the door to analyzing the many new political coalitions of the present." - Micaela di Leonardo, Northwestern University