The Other Latinos / Edition 1

by José Luis Falconi, José Antonio Mazzotti, Michael Jones-Correa, Helen B. Marrow, Arturo Arias

Overview

The Other Latinos addresses an important topic: the presence in the United States of Latin American and Caribbean immigrants from countries other than Mexico, Cuba, and Puerto Rico. Focusing on the Andes, Central America, and Brazil, the book brings together essays by a number of accomplished scholars.

Michael Jones-Correa's chapter is a lucid study of the complex issues in posing "established" and "other," and "old" and "new" in the discussion of Latino immigrant groups. Helen B. Marrow follows with general observations that bring out the many facets of race, ethnicity, and identity. Claret Vargas analyzes the poetry of Eduardo Mitre, followed by Edmundo Paz Soldán's reflections on Bolivians' "obsessive signs of identity." Nestor Rodriguez discusses the tensions between Mexican and Central American immigrants, while Arturo Arias's piece on Central Americans moves brilliantly between the literary (and the cinematic), the historical, and the material. Four Brazilian chapters complete the work.

The editors hope that this introductory work will inspire others to continue these initial inquiries so as to construct a more complete understanding of the realities of Latin American migration into the United States.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780674025899
Publisher:	Harvard University Press
Publication date:	02/28/2008
Series:	Series on Latin American Studies , #20
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	313
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

José Luis Falconi is Lecturer of Latin American Art and Architecture in the Department of History of Art and Architecture at Brandeis University.

José Antonio Mazzotti is Professor and Chair of Romance Languages and Literatures, Tufts University.

Helen B. Marrow is a Lecturer, Committee on Degrees in Social Studies, Harvard University.

Table of Contents

About the Contributors     v
Introduction   Jose Luis Falconi   Jose Antonio Mazzotti     1
General Aspects of the Other Latino Immigration
Swimming in the Latino Sea: The Other Latinos and Politics   Michael Jones-Correa     21
Who Are the Other Latinos, and Why?   Helen B. Marrow     39
Recent Mexican and Central American Immigration
Comparing Mexicans and Central Americans in the Present Wave of U.S. Immigration   Nestor Rodriguez     81
Central American Americans: Invisibility, Power, and Representation   Arturo Arias     101
Andean Immigration
Mapping the Andean Cultural Archipelago in the United States   Ulises Juan Zevallos-Aguilar     125
The Persistence of Distance in the Poetry of Eduardo Mitre   Claret Vargas     141
Obsessive Signs of Identity: Bolivians in the United States   Edmundo Paz-Soldan     165
"Te has desmaterializado ya?" Gonzalez Viana's Los suenos de America   Debra A. Castillo     177
Brazilian Immigration
Second-generation Brazilian Immigrants in the United States   Teresa Sales     195
Becoming Brazucas: Brazilian Identity in the United States   Maxine L. Margolis     213
"Neither Hispanic, nor Black: We're Brazilian"   AnaCristina Braga Martes     231
Is There a Brazilian American Cinema? Aesthetics and Identity in A Fronteira and Nailed!   Antonio Luciano de Andrade Tosta     257
Index     287

Editorial Reviews

Editors Falconi and Mazzotti have assembled a most impressive cadre of authoritative scholars in editing this collection focusing on Central Americans, Andeans, and Brazilians.

Choice - A. A. Sisneros

Editors Falconi and Mazzotti have assembled a most impressive cadre of authoritative scholars in editing this collection focusing on Central Americans, Andeans, and Brazilians.--A. A. Sisneros "Choice" (2/1/2009 12:00:00 AM)

From the Publisher

Editors Falconi and Mazzotti have assembled a most impressive cadre of authoritative scholars in editing this collection focusing on Central Americans, Andeans, and Brazilians.
— A. A. Sisneros

Choice