Latino StudiesPub Date : 2024-07-24DOI: 10.1057/s41276-024-00470-6
Frances R. Aparicio
{"title":"Placing justice and joy in Latinx studies","authors":"Frances R. Aparicio","doi":"10.1057/s41276-024-00470-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41276-024-00470-6","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Este ensayo fue presentado por primera vez como el discurso de apertura en el congreso nacional de la Asociacion de Estudios Latinos en Tempe, Arizona, en abril del 2024.</p>","PeriodicalId":45728,"journal":{"name":"Latino Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141769429","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Latino StudiesPub Date : 2024-07-24DOI: 10.1057/s41276-024-00465-3
Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas
{"title":"Forging a psychological solidarity: from the community mental health movement to Latinx life coaching in the South Bronx","authors":"Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas","doi":"10.1057/s41276-024-00465-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41276-024-00465-3","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The therapeutic modality of life coaching has been frequently associated with white middle and upper-middle classes and an attempt to align “the self” with neoliberal expectations. Drawing from archival work and virtual ethnographic fieldwork among a Latinx life coaching program and its participants during the COVID-19 pandemic, I consider an alternative form of life coaching that attracts women of color across classes and racial backgrounds. In this essay, foregrounding historical and contemporary politics of psychological care and wellness practices among Puerto Ricans in the South Bronx, I demonstrate the lingering influence of the 1970s community mental health movement on Latinx life coaching, a field that has experienced a monumental increase in the last two decades or so. I propose the concept of “psychological solidarity” to describe how this program’s participants have turned to Latinx life coaching modalities to articulate gendered perspectives on colonial subjectivity and sociality.</p>","PeriodicalId":45728,"journal":{"name":"Latino Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141769481","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Latino StudiesPub Date : 2024-07-03DOI: 10.1057/s41276-024-00461-7
Nicolás Ramos Flores
{"title":"Sites of contestation: kaleidoscopes of memory and the shrouding of Latinx lives in the Interim National Pulse Memorial","authors":"Nicolás Ramos Flores","doi":"10.1057/s41276-024-00461-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41276-024-00461-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Since the 2016 Pulse nightclub massacre, a plethora of artistic and commemorative efforts have been erected in Orlando, Florida. While the commemorative sites have brought attention to LGQTB + causes and visibility in the area, they have also obfuscated the presence of queer Latinx lives that were disproportionately affected by the massacre. With twenty-three of the forty-nine victims being Puerto Rican and 90% being Latinx, the presence of Latinx lives in this commemorative wall has brought attention to the simultaneous visibility and invisibility of Latinxs in the Central Florida region. This article examines the Pulse nightclub’s physical and archived artistic productions to create a mosaic commemorative site that breaks spatial and temporal limitations. I develop the concept of kaleidoscopes of memory, or the continual structural and intersectional traumas that define memory for minoritized peoples, to better understand the representational incongruencies in the memorial wall. This article reveals the tensions and contradictions of Latinx belonging in Central Florida that experience continual shrouding in the broader US imagination.</p>","PeriodicalId":45728,"journal":{"name":"Latino Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141529870","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Latino StudiesPub Date : 2024-07-02DOI: 10.1057/s41276-024-00464-4
Natasha Howard
{"title":"Moving beyond the binary?: How anti-Black racial talk appears in critical discourses on race","authors":"Natasha Howard","doi":"10.1057/s41276-024-00464-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41276-024-00464-4","url":null,"abstract":"<p>For more than two decades, Latina/o critical theory (LatCrit) scholars have called for moving beyond the Black/White binary in conversations on race. By emphasizing Black people, proponents have argued, we ignore Latinx and other racialized minorities who are neither Black nor White and who often live in transnational contexts with transnational identities. This article engages with those scholars who call for moving beyond the Black/White binary by asking how their arguments stimulate anti-Black discourse. Ultimately, LatCrit writers fail to engage with Black Latinx critical race theorists in both the United States and Latin America and, as a result, reproduce anti-Blackness. The call to move beyond a Black/White binary is really a call to make Latinx Blackness invisible. As such, it is not a step toward racial justice but another articulation of anti-Blackness presented as progressive racial thinking. Here I engage with Black Latinx and Black Latin American critical race scholars who challenge US LatCrit scholars to think about how anti-Blackness is part of Latinidad.</p>","PeriodicalId":45728,"journal":{"name":"Latino Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141509267","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Latino StudiesPub Date : 2024-07-01DOI: 10.1057/s41276-024-00460-8
Frank García
{"title":"Practicing Latinx: queer theory and the deradicalization of Latinx","authors":"Frank García","doi":"10.1057/s41276-024-00460-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41276-024-00460-8","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This essay traces the connections between queer theory and the term “Latinx” to argue that the widespread academic embrace of Latinx has imposed a queer anti-identitarianism onto the term. Arguing that Latinx has become too mainstream, this essay shows how Latinx’s initial gender nonconforming, nonbinary, and trans origins and radical politics have been recuperated and depoliticized to mask and preserve cis-normativity as a hegemonic structure of power in the academy. The essay contends that Latinx would benefit from avowing a selective specificity, rather than queer anti-identitarianism, and from emphasizing the need to practice Latinx politics, instead of merely invoking the term in a nominal move toward inclusivity.</p>","PeriodicalId":45728,"journal":{"name":"Latino Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141509268","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Latino StudiesPub Date : 2024-06-11DOI: 10.1057/s41276-024-00459-1
Sarah M. Quesada
{"title":"On Latinx Globalities: the case of African cosmopolitanism in Elizabeth “Betita” Martínez and Víctor Hernández Cruz","authors":"Sarah M. Quesada","doi":"10.1057/s41276-024-00459-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41276-024-00459-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45728,"journal":{"name":"Latino Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141356904","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Latino StudiesPub Date : 2024-05-31DOI: 10.1057/s41276-024-00457-3
Emma Busch, Salvador Vidal-Ortiz
{"title":"ENLACE: Latina/o gay and lesbian ruptures in the archives","authors":"Emma Busch, Salvador Vidal-Ortiz","doi":"10.1057/s41276-024-00457-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41276-024-00457-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45728,"journal":{"name":"Latino Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141196982","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Latino StudiesPub Date : 2024-05-24DOI: 10.1057/s41276-023-00441-3
Angélica Camacho
{"title":"The moral panic of the mafioso: The rise of the prison industrial complex and the attack on brown communities","authors":"Angélica Camacho","doi":"10.1057/s41276-023-00441-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41276-023-00441-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45728,"journal":{"name":"Latino Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-05-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141099775","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Latino StudiesPub Date : 2024-05-24DOI: 10.1057/s41276-023-00445-z
Marisa D. Salinas
{"title":"Latinas as carceral collateral: Violence in the lives of Latinas across the carceral community","authors":"Marisa D. Salinas","doi":"10.1057/s41276-023-00445-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41276-023-00445-z","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45728,"journal":{"name":"Latino Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-05-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141100217","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}