Constructed Latinx(s) identities : racialized bodies in visual and textual culture /
Constructed Latinx(s) Identities: Racialized Bodies in Visual and Textual Culture explores recent forms and interpretations of Latinx communities present in film, literature, television, and other cultural expressions. Using specific case studies, the authors of this collection delve into the inters...
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Amherst, Massachusetts :
Amherst College Press,
2025.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Alternative Approaches and Representations of Latinx(s) Subjectivities in Cultural Production
- Part 1: Cinema About and By Latinx Communities. 1. How We Became Latinx: The Role of Data on Identity in the Twenty-first Century
- 2. Latinx Cyborgs: Analyzing Cyborg Identities Through a Cultural Lens
- 3. Resistance, Subversion, and the Racialization of Food in The Blue Diner
- 4. Screening Diasporic Memories and Race in Diana Peralta's De lo mío
- 5. Underscoring Indigenous Latinx Identities Through Cinema
- Part 2: Latinx Peoples in Visual and Textual Cultural Expressions. 6. "Darker Shade of White": Intersections of Black, Latinx, and Salvadoran in an Everyday Poetics of the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Area
- 7. Closing the Media Gap? Latinx Languaging at Race and Queer Intersections
- 8. Casting Spells with Melody: The Ascension of Yma Sumac to the Throne of Exotica in the 1950s
- 9. Constructing U.S. Central American Identities in The Wandering Song: Central American Writing in the United States
- 10. Intersectional Identities and Care Work as Agency in Recent Latina Fiction
- Afterword: On the Future of Representation and Scholarship.