Key terms in Latino/a cultural and literary studies (original) (raw)
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1999
The Julian Samora Research Institute is committed to the generation, transmission, and application of knowledge to serve the needs of Latino communities in the Midwest. To this end, it has organized a number of publication initiatives to facilitate the timely dissemination of current research and information relevant to Latinos. * Research Reports: JSRI's flagship publications for scholars who want a quality publication with more detail than usually allowed in mainstream journals. These are edited and reviewed in-house. Research Reports are selected for their significant contribution to the knowledge base of Latinos. * Working Papers: for scholars who want to share their preliminary findings and obtain feedback from others in Latino studies. Some editing provided by JSRI. * Statistical Briefs/CIFRAS: for the Institute's dissemination of "facts and figures" on Latino issues and conditions. Also designed to address policy questions and to highlight important topics. * Occasional Papers: for the dissemination of speeches and papers of value to the Latino community which are not necessarily based on a research project. Examples include historical accounts of people or events, "oral histories," motivational talks, poetry, speeches, and related presentations.
Crossing Disciplinary Borders: Latino/a Studies and Latin American Studies in the 1990s
2001
Over the 30 years of their existence, studies of Latinos/as in the U.S. and the field of Latin American Studies have emerged largely as divided disciplines. That is, despite what would appear to be similar sensibilities including comparable criticisms of Western hegemony and the neocolonial practices of the U.S., as well as the political, economic, and cultural displacement of similar populations, the two areas of study have more often regarded each other as competitive colleagues rather than complimentary practices. In the following study, I examine the nature of the two disciplines paying particular attention to the political context surrounding their formations and the foundations of their discursive frameworks. I examine changes to these disciplines in the methodological and ideological shifts surrounding the emergence of empirical and postmodern studies, and the relationship between these theoretical shifts and the expansion of globalization. Finally, I conclude with a discussi...
Lcs 502 Theoretical Approaches to Latin American, Caribbean and US Latino Studies (I) (Spring 2013)
This course provides students with a critical understanding of major theoretical approaches to the study of the political economy and socio-cultural development of Latin America, the Caribbean and US Latinos. Major themes addressed include (1) imperialism and colonialism and their impact on economic outcomes, social structure, politics and the state; (2) theories of development that have shaped debates and the field of Latin American, Caribbean and US Latino Studies; (3) neoliberal restructuring and its consequences for how power is currently being exercised and contested; (4) social movement theory and its application; and (5) contemporary trends in critical political economy and Latin American, Caribbean and US Latino Studies.
Language and Education, 2015
As the editors point out in their introduction, this volume is solidly based on research carried out during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries on Spanishspeaking populations in the United States. It is the case that certain Spanishspeaking communities in the US, particularly in its Southwestern regions, have had an uninterrupted existence here that predates the arrival of English speakers on this continent. However, given recent demographic shifts, other US Spanish-speaking communities are relatively new. The volume's focus is on diaspora, and part 1, ''Established Communities,'' centers on the newer communities. The first two chapters study the dynamics of language contact in Chicago, Illinois, with regard to dialect and identity negotiation. Significant inflows of Mexican and Puerto Ricanorigin Latinos into the area have brought cultural and linguistic norms, mediated through Spanish, crashing together. The studies seek to work toward unravelling the complexities of how the Spanish-speaking Mexican, Puerto Rican and ''MexiRican'' communities interact with and accommodate one another. At the same time, the shared experience of speaking a non-English language results in negotiating a shared identity and strategies to maintain that identity within a larger Englishspeaking context, as discussed in Chapter 3. The linguistic and ideological dynamics among recent arrivals in contact with established Latino communities is further explored in the context of Spanish language use in the media, specifically radio broadcasting. These studies represent well-established research foci in US Spanishlanguage studies. Chapter 4, ''Queer Latin@ Networks: Languages, Identities, and the Ties That Bind,'' contributes to the exploration of language and identity as well, but also represents an innovative trend in the study of US Spanish. LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer) Spanish-speaking communities have largely been ignored in the literature, and this chapter not only contributes to the sound