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Latinx Studies: The Key Concepts (Routledge Key Guides)

Latinx Studies: The Key Concepts (Routledge Key Guides)

by Frederick Aldama (Author), Christopher González (Author), Christopher González (Author), Frederick Aldama (Author)

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Synopsis

Latinx Studies: The Key Concepts is an accessible guide to the central concepts and issues that inform Latinx studies globally. It summarizes, explains, contextualizes, and assesses key critical concepts, perspectives, developments and debates in Latinx Studies. At once comprehensive in coverage and detailed and specific in examples analyzed, it provides over 25 key concepts to the field of Latinx Studies as shaped within historical, social, cultural, regional, and global contexts, including

    • Borderland Theory

    • Body

    • Digital Era

    • Familia

    • Intersectionality

    • Language

    • Latinidad

    • Latinofuturism

    • Public spheres

    • Rituals

    • Pop culture

    • Immigration

Fully cross-referenced and complete with suggestions for further reading, Latinx Studies: The Key Concepts is an essential guide for anyone studying race, ethnicity, gender, class, education, culture, and globalism.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 218
 Edition: 1
 Publisher: Routledge
Published: 27 Nov 2018
ISBN 10: 1138088439
ISBN 13: 9781138088436

Author Bio
Frederick Luis Aldama is Arts and Humanities Distinguished Professor of English and University Distinguished Scholar at the Ohio State University where he is also founder and director of LASER and the Humanities & Cognitive Sciences High School Summer Institute. He is author, co-author, and editor of over 34 books, including the Routledge Concise History of Latino/a Literature and Latino/a Literature in the Classroom, and recently won an Eisner award for Latinx Superheroes in Mainstream Comics. Christopher Gonzalez is associate professor of English and Director of the Latinx Cultural Center at Utah State University in Logan, Utah. His research and teaching focus on twentieth- and twenty-first century Latinx literature, film, television, comics, and narrative theory. He is the author of Reading Junot Diaz (2015) and Permissible Narratives: The Promise of Latino/a Literature (2017).