Mambo Montage

by Lao-Montes, Augustin

• ISBN13: 9780231112758
• ISBN10: 0231112750
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-06-01
• Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr

Summary

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 Montageis both a way of imagining latinidadand an angle of vision on the city.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
List of Contributors	xi
Introduction Mambo Montage: The Latinization of New York City	1	(54)
Agustin Lao-Montes
Part I The Production of Latinidad: Histories, Social Movements, Cultural Struggles	55	(128)
``No Country But the One We Must Fight For'': The Emergence of an Antillean Nation and Community in New York City, 1860-1901	57	(16)
Nancy Raquel Mirabai
``The Latins from Manhattan'': Confronting Race and Building Community in Jim Crow Baseball, 1906-1950	73	(24)
Adrian Burgos Jr.
Latino Caribbean Diasporas in New York	97	(22)
Ramon Grosfoguel
Chloe S. Georas
Niuyol: Urban Regime, Latino Social Movements, Ideologies of Latinidad	119	(40)
Agustin Lao-Montes
Culture in the Battlefront: From Nationalist to Pan-Latino Projects	159	(24)
Arlene Davila
Part II Expressive Cultures: Narrating, Imaging, and Performing Latinidad	183	(108)
Life Off the Hyphen: Latino Literature and Nuyorican Traditions	185	(22)
Juan Flores
``Nothing Connects Us All But Imagined Sounds'': Performing Trans-Boricua Memories, Identities, and Nationalisms Through the Death of Hector Lavoe	207	(28)
Wilson Valentin-Escobar
Hip-Hop, Puerto Ricans, and Ethnoracial Identities in New York	235	(28)
Raquel Z. Rivera
Ambiguous Identities! The Affirmation of Puertorriquenidad in the Community Murals of New York City	263	(28)
Elsa B. Cardalda Sanchez
Amilcar Tirado Aviles
Part III Latino/a Identities and the Politics of Space and Place	291	(118)
Making Loisaida: Placing Puertorriquenidad in Lower Manhattan	293	(26)
Liz Sevcenko
The Manifold Character of Panethnicity: Latino Identities and Practices Among Dominicans in New York City	319	(18)
Jose Itzigsohn
Carlos Dore-Cabral
Immigration Status and Identity: Undocumented Mexicans in New York	337	(26)
Jocelyn Solis
Outside/In: Crossing Queer and Latino Boundaries	363	(24)
Luis Aponte-Pares
Engendering and Coloring Labor Unions: Transcultural Readings of Latin American Women's Ways	387	(22)
Mary Garcia Castro
Part IV Latinizing Cityscapes	409	(2)
The Latin Side of Madison Avenue: Marketing and the Language that Makes Us ``Hispanics''	411	(14)
Arlene Davila
Eating in Cuban	425	(24)
Lisa Maya Knauer
Taking ``Class'' Into Account: Dance, the Studio, and Latino Culture	449	(24)
Karen Backstein
Deceptive Solidity: Public Signs, Civic Inclusion, and Language Rights in New York City (and Beyond)	473
Vilma Santiago-Irizarry