Critical Dialogues in Latinx Studies: A Reader

**WINNER, D. Scott Palmer Prize for Best Edited Collection, given by the New England Council of Latin American Studies** Introduces new approaches, theoretical trends, and understudied topics in Latinx Studies This 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. The 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. Critical Dialogues in Latinx Studies 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.

About the Author :
Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas (Editor) Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas is Professor in the programs in American Studies and Ethnicity, Race & Migration at Yale University. She is the author of Street Therapists: Race, Affect, and Neoliberal Personhood in Latino Newark and National Performances: The Politics of Class, Race, and Space in Puerto Rican Chicago and co-author of Latino Crossings: Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, and the Politics of Race and Citizenship. Mérida M. Rúa (Editor) Mérida M. Rúa is Professor in the Latina and Latino Studies Program at Northwestern University. She is editor of Latino Urban Ethnography and the Work of Elena Padilla and author of A Grounded Identidad: Making New Lives in Chicago's Puerto Rican Neighborhoods.

Review :
"Brilliantly crafted. . . . Brings together a wide range of scholars and offers a fresh take on Latinx Studies through its discussion of nine key diálogos that touch upon the social histories and contemporary experiences of diverse Latinx populations including immigrants, exiles, refugees, and US-born groups of various backgrounds. . . . Blurs the boundaries between the humanities and social sciences, making the modes of analysis in every chapter special and unique. Ramos-Zayas and Rúa have put together an incredibly rich volume that has something for everyone." - Glenda M. Flores, author of Latina Teachers: Creating Careers and Guarding Culture "Capacious, lively, beautifully organized. . . . Contributors cover colonization and decolonization, race and racialization, differing migration histories, gendered and queer experiences, language and the politics of labeling, cultural production, humor, religion, and the carceral, punitive states Latinx populations must navigate. But they also document past and present Latinx activisms, and open the door to analyzing the many new political coalitions of the present." - Micaela di Leonardo, Northwestern University