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Latinx belonging : community building and resilience in the United States /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Other Authors: Deeb-Sossa, Natalia (Editor), Méndez, Jennifer Bickham (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, 2022.
Subjects:
Hispanic Americans > Ethnic identity.
Hispanic Americans > Social conditions.
Community life > United States.
Belonging (Social psychology)
Community life.
United States.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Foreword by Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Latinx Belonging and Struggles for Inclusion / Jennifer Bickham Mendez and Natalia Deeb-Sossa
  • Part I. Intersectional Latinidades, Resilience, and Community Building
  • 1. Ethnorace and the Orientación of Unaccompanied, Undocumented Indigenous Youth in Latinx Los Angeles / Stephanie L. Canizales
  • 2. Resilience in the Time of a Pandemic: COVID-19, LGBTQ+ Latinx Activism, and the Politics of Belonging / Kline, Acosta, Cuevas, and Quiroga
  • 3. No Choice but Unity: Afro-Cuban Immigrants Building Community in Los Angeles / Monika Gosin
  • Part II. Finding Home and Claiming Place Through Familia
  • 4. Mujeres Luchadoras: Latina Immigrant Women's Homemaking Practices to Assert Belonging in a Philadelphia Suburb / Verónica Montes
  • 5. Creating Home, Claiming Place: Latina Immigrant Mothers and the Production of Belonging / Jennifer Bickham Mendez and Natalia Deeb-Sossa
  • 6. Finding Home / Haciendo Familia: Testimonios of Mexican Male Farmworkers in Central California / Yvette G. Flores
  • Part III. Resistance Through Claims-Making and Cultural Expression
  • 7. Belonging and Vulnerability in San Francisco: Undocumented Latinx Parents and Local Claims-Making / Jones Gast, Okamoto, and Allen
  • 8. Strategic (Il)legibility: The Marginalization and Resistance of Latina Community-Engaged Artists in Chicago / Michael De Anda Muñiz
  • 9. Dance in the Desert: Latinx Bodies in Movement Beyond Borders / Michelle Téllez and Yvonne Montoya
  • 10. A City of Puentes: Latina/o Cross-Generational Memories and Organizing in the 2016-17 Struggle for Sanctuary / Gilda L. Ochoa
  • Part IV. Concluding Thoughts
  • 11. Latinx Belonging and Solidarity in the Twenty-First Century: (Re)Constructing the Meaning of Community in the Era of COVID-19 / Suzanne Oboler
  • Contributors
  • Index