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Author Aparicio, Frances R., author

Title Negotiating Latinidad : intralatina/o lives in Chicago / Frances R. Aparicio
Published Champaign : University of Illinois Press, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource (165 pages)
Series Latinos in Chicago and the Midwest
Latinos in Chicago and the Midwest.
Contents Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Latinidad in the Flesh: An Intimate Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Horizontal Hierarchies: The Transnational Tensions in Latinidad; Familia; 2. Chicago Encounters: Loving the National Other; 3. The Motifs of Latinidad: Negotiating Nationalities and Struggling for Multiple Belongings (Elena, Mariana, José, Sara, Daniel, Vivian); 4. Of Fathers and Mothers: Gender and National (Dis)Identifications (Daniel, Mario, María Isabel); Race and Language; 5. Relational Racializations: Skin Color as Other (Marisa, Enrique, Marcos, Stacey)
6. Negotiating Spanish: Linguistic Boundaries and Transculturations (Karen, María Isabel, José, Carolina)Passing and Performance; 7. Passing for Mexican: Relational Identities in Latina/o Chicago (Diana, Milagros, Silvia, Linda); 8. Performing the National Other: Visual and Sonic Passing (Paco, Ignacio); Concluding Chapters; 9. The "New" Americana/os: Intralatina/os and the Utopia of National Hybridities (Diana); 10. Toward a New Research Agenda; Appendix: Interview Questions; Notes; Works Cited; Index; Back Cover
Summary "Negotiating Latinidad shares the family experiences of twenty Intralatino/as who were born in, and/or grew up in Chicago and have negotiated the national communities embodied in their nuclear and extended families. Intralatino/as are Latino/as of mixed nationalities, such as MexiRicans, MexiGuatemalans, CubanRicans, and SalvadoRicans. These children of Latino/a parents of different Latino American nationalities are the biological instantiation of Latinidad. Their personal lives and their everyday experiences negotiating various national communities, most evidently in their families, have not yet been documented, analyzed, or integrated into our knowledge about U.S. Latino/as. In the first study of this group, Frances R. Aparicio discovered that Intralatino/as see themselves as true Latino/as, with mixed identities, who are able to understand difference and boundaries more easily than others. Yet they also have, in their own family situations, conflicts, tragedies, and celebrations, experienced the pain of (non)belonging, whether in a brief moment of social interaction with others or in the lengthier unfolding of their family dramas, conflicts, and challenges. This book contributes to efforts to reaffirm the critical role of social identities for postcolonial, subordinated minorities in a globalizing world that increasingly renders identity politics and social identities unimportant. The book is also about the Intralatino/a subjectivities that inevitably prompts the question of whether U.S. Latino/as will eventually become a melting pot of nationalities"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 10, 2019)
Subject Hispanic Americans -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Ethnic identity
Hispanic Americans -- Race identity -- Illinois -- Chicago
Racially mixed people -- Race identity -- Illinois -- Chicago
Identity (Psychology) -- Social aspects
Race Relations
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
Ethnic relations
Hispanic Americans -- Ethnic identity
Identity (Psychology) -- Social aspects
Race relations
Racially mixed people -- Race identity
SUBJECT Chicago (Ill.) -- Ethnic relations
Chicago (Ill.) -- Race relations
Subject Illinois -- Chicago
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2019024421
ISBN 0252051556
9780252051555