{"product_id":"critical-dialogues-in-latinx-studies-a-reader-9781479805211","title":"Critical Dialogues in Latinx Studies: A Reader","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e**WINNER, D. Scott Palmer Prize for Best Edited Collection, given by the New England Council of Latin American Studies**\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eIntroduces new approaches, theoretical trends, and understudied topics in Latinx Studies\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis groundbreaking work offers a multidisciplinary, social-science oriented perspective on Latinx studies, including the social histories and contemporary lives of a diverse range of Latina and Latino populations. Editors Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas and Mérida M. Rúa have crafted an anthology that is unique in both form and content. The book combines previously published canonical pieces with original, cutting-edge works created for this volume. The sections of the text are arranged thematically as critical dialogues, each with a brief preface that provides context and a conceptual direction for the scholarly conversation that ensues. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe editors frame the volume around the \"humanistic social sciences,\" using the term to highlight the historical and social contexts under which expressive cultural forms and archival records are created. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eCritical Dialogues in Latinx Studies\u003c\/i\u003e masterfully sheds light on the diversity and complexity of the everyday lives of Latinx populations, the political economic structures that shape enduring racialization and cultural stereotyping, and the continuing efforts to carve out new lives as diasporic, transnational, global, and colonial subjects.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAna Y. Ramos-Zayas (Editor) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eAna Y. Ramos-Zayas \u003c\/b\u003eis Professor in the programs in American Studies and Ethnicity, Race \u0026amp; Migration at Yale University. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eStreet Therapists: Race, Affect, and Neoliberal Personhood in Latino Newark \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eNational Performances: The Politics of Class, Race, and Space in Puerto Rican Chicago\u003c\/i\u003e and co-author of \u003ci\u003eLatino Crossings: Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, and the Politics of Race and Citizenship.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eMérida M. Rúa (Editor) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eMérida M. Rúa \u003c\/b\u003eis Professor in the Latina and Latino Studies Program at Northwestern University. She is editor of \u003ci\u003eLatino Urban Ethnography and the Work of Elena Padilla \u003c\/i\u003eand author of \u003ci\u003eA Grounded Identidad: Making New Lives in Chicago's Puerto Rican Neighborhoods.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"New York University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50444252184850,"sku":"9781479805211","price":52.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e080b8b1-9765-4803-abe9-2c348a99ea8e.jpg?v=1729677911","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/critical-dialogues-in-latinx-studies-a-reader-9781479805211","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}