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Us, in progress : short stories about young Latinos
A collection of short stories featuring Latin Americans allows readers to experience life through their eyes, celebrate their victories, and see their hardships.
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Mayaya Rising
Who are the Black heroines of Latin America and the Caribbean? Where do we turn for models of transcendence among women of African ancestry in the region? In answer to the historical dearth of such exemplars, Mayaya Rising explores and celebrates the work of writers who intentionally center powerful female cultural archetypes. In this inventive analysis, Duke proposes three case studies and a corresponding womanist methodology through which to study and rediscover these figures. The musical Cuban-Dominican sisters and former slaves Teodora and Micaela Ginés inspired Aida Cartagena Portalatin's epic poem Yania tierra; the Nicaraguan matriarch of the May Pole, \"Miss Lizzie,\" figures prominently in four anthologies from the country's Bluefields region; and the iconic palenqueras of Cartagena, Colombia are magnified in the work of poets María Teresa Ramírez Neiva and Mirian Díaz Pérez. In elevating these figures and foregrounding these works, Duke restores and repairs the scholarly record.
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Visible Borders, Invisible Economies
Globalization in the United States can seem paradoxical: free
trade coincides with fortification of the southern border, while
immigration is reimagined as a national-security threat. US
politics turn aggressively against Latinx migrants and subjects
even as post-NAFTA markets become thoroughly reliant on migrant and
racialized workers. But in fact, there is no incongruity here.
Rather, anti-immigrant politics reflect a strategy whereby capital
uses specialized forms of violence to create a reserve army of the
living, laboring dead.
Visible Borders, Invisible Economies turns to Latinx
literature, photography, and films that render this unseen scheme
shockingly vivid. Works such as Valeria Luiselli's Tell Me How
It Ends and Alex Rivera's Sleep Dealer crystallize
the experience of Latinx subjects and migrants subjugated to social
death, their political existence erased by disenfranchisement and
racist violence while their bodies still toil in behalf of
corporate profits. In Kristy L. Ulibarri's telling, art clarifies
what power obscures: the national-security state performs
anti-immigrant and xenophobic politics that substitute cathartic
nationalism for protections from the free market while ensuring
maximal corporate profits through the manufacture of disposable
migrant labor.
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Urban Chroniclers in Modern Latin America
An unstructured genre that blends high aesthetic standards with nonfiction commentary, the journalistic crónica, or chronicle, has played a vital role in Latin American urban life since the nineteenth century. Drawing on extensive archival research, Viviane Mahieux delivers new testimony on how chroniclers engaged with modernity in Mexico City, Buenos Aires, and São Paulo during the 1920s and 1930s, a time when avant-garde movements transformed writers' and readers' conceptions of literature. Urban Chroniclers in Modern Latin America: The Shared Intimacy of Everyday Life examines the work of extraordinary raconteurs Salvador Novo, Cube Bonifant, Roberto Arlt, Alfonsina Storni, and Mário de Andrade, restoring the original newspaper contexts in which their articles first emerged. Each of these writers guided their readers through a constantly changing cityscape and advised them on matters of cultural taste, using their ties to journalism and their participation in urban practice to share accessible wisdom and establish their role as intellectual arbiters. The intimate ties they developed with their audience fostered a permeable concept of literature that would pave the way for overtly politically engaged chroniclers of the 1960s and 1970s. Providing comparative analysis as well as reflection on the evolution of this important genre, Urban Chroniclers in Modern Latin America is the first systematic study of the Latin American writers who forged a new reading public in the early twentieth century.
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Violence Against Latina Immigrants
Caught between violent partners and the bureaucratic complications of the US Immigration system, many immigrant women are particularly vulnerable to abuse. For two years, Roberta Villalon volunteered at a nonprofit group that offers free legal services to mostly undocumented immigrants who had been victims of abuse. Her innovative study of Latina survivors of domestic violence explores the complexities at the intersection of immigration, citizenship, and violence, and shows how inequality is perpetuated even through the well-intentioned delivery of vital services. Through archival research, participant observation, and personal interviews, Violence Against Latina Immigrants provides insight into the many obstacles faced by battered immigrant women of color, bringing their stories and voices to the fore. Ultimately, Villalon proposes an active policy advocacy agenda and suggests possible changes to gender violence-based immigration laws, revealing the complexities of the lives of Latina immigrants as they confront issues of citizenship, gender violence, and social inequalities.
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Latino Migrants in the Jewish State
In the 1990s, thousands of non-Jewish Latinos arrived in Israel as
undocumented immigrants. Based on his fieldwork in South America and Israel, Barak
Kalir follows these workers from their decision to migrate to their experiences
finding work, establishing social clubs and evangelical Christian churches, and
putting down roots in Israeli society. While the State of Israel rejected the
presence of non-Jewish migrants, many citizens accepted them. Latinos grew to favor
cultural assimilation to Israeli society. In 2005, after a large-scale deportation
campaign that drew criticism from many quarters, Israel made the historic decision
to legalize the status of some undocumented migrant families on the basis of their
cultural assimilation and identification with the State. By doing so, the author
maintains, Israel recognized the importance of practical belonging for understanding
citizenship and national identity.
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