New York is the capital of mambo and a global factory of latinidad. This book covers the topic in all its multifaceted aspects, from Jim Crow baseball in the first half of the twentieth century to hip hop and ethno-racial politics, from Latinas and labor unions to advertising and Latino culture, from Cuban cuisine to the language of signs in New York City.
Together the articles map out the main conceptions of Latino identity as well as the historical process of Latinization of New York. Mambo Montage is both a way of imagining latinidad and an angle of vision on the city.
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- INTRODUCTION Mambo Montage: The Latinization of New York City
- PART I The Production of Latinidad: Histories, Social Movements, Cultural Struggles
- 1. "No Country But the One We Must Fight For": The Emergence of an Antillean Nation and Community in New York City (1860-1901)
- 2. "The Latins from Manhattan": Confronting Race and Building Community in Jim Crow Baseball, 1906-1950
- 3. Latino Caribbean Diasporas in New York
- 4. Niuyol: Urban Regime, Latino Social Movements, Ideologies of Latinidad
- 5. Culture in the Battlefront: From Nationalist to Pan-Latino Projects
- PART II Expressive Cultures: Narrating, Imaging, and Performing Latinidad
- 6. Life Off the Hyphen: Latino Literature and Nuyorican Traditions
- 7. "Nothing Connects Us All But Imagined Sounds": Performing Trans-Boricua Memories, Identities, and Nationalisms Through the Death of Hector Lavoe
- 8. Hip-Hop, Puerto Ricans, and Ethnoracial Identities in New York
- 9. Ambiguous Identities! The Affirmation of Puertorriquenidad in the Community Murals of New York City
- PART III Latino/a Identities and the Politics of Space and Place
- 10. Making Loisaida: Placing Puertorriquenidad in Lower Manhattan
- 11. The Manifold Character of Panethnicity: Latino Identities and Practices Among Dominicans in New York City
- 12. Immigration Status and Identity: Undocumented Mexicans in New York
- 13. Outside/In: Crossing Queer and Latino Boundaries
- 14. Engendering and Coloring Labor Unions: Transultural Readings of Latin American Women's Ways
- PART IV Latinizing Cityscapes
- 15. The Latin Side of Madison Avenue: Marketing and the Language that Makes Us "Hispanics"
- 16. Eating in Cuban
- 17. Taking "Class" Into Account: Dance, the Studio, and Latino Culture
- 18. Deceptive Solidity: Public Signs, Civic Inclusion, and Language Rights in New York City (and Beyond)
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