Latina/o Discourse in Vernacular Spaces Somos de Una Voz?

by Holling, Michelle A.; Calafell, Bernadette M.; Anguiano, Claudia; Avant-Mier, Roberto; Y. Calvente, Lisa B.; Chávez, Karma R.; Córdova, Nathaniel I.; Enck-Wanzer, Darrel; Garza, Teresita; González, Alberto; Ono, Kent A.; Pineda, Richard D.; Scholz, T.M Li

• ISBN13: 9780739146484
• ISBN10: 0739146483
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-02-22
• Publisher: Lexington Books

Summary

Taking up the charge to study discourses of marginalized groups, while simultaneously extending scholarship about Latina/os in the field of Communication, Latina/o Discourse in Vernacular Spaces: Somos de Una Voz? provides the most current work examining the vernacular voices of Latina/os. The editors of this diverse collection structure the book along four topics_Locating Foundations, Citizenship and Belonging, The Politics of Self-Representation, and Trans/National Voces_that are guided by the organizing principle of voz/voces [voice/voces]. Voz/voces resonates not only in intellectual endeavors but also in public arenas in which perceptions of Latina/os' being of one voice circulate. The study of voz/voces proceeds from a variety of sites including cultural myth, social movement, music, testimonios, a website, and autoethnographic performance. By questioning and addressing the politics of voz/voces, the essays collectively underscore the complexity that shapes Latina/o multivocality. Ultimately, the contours of Latina/o vernacular expressions call attention to the ways that these unique communities continue to craft identities that transform social understandings of who Latina/os are, to engage in forms of resistance that alter relations of power, and to challenge self- and dominant representations.

Author Biography

Michelle A. Holling is associate professor of communication at California State University San Marcos. Bernadette M. Calafell is associate professor of communication at the University of Denver.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Foreword	p. ix
Introduction	p. xv
Locating Foundations	p. xxvii
Listening to Our Voices: Latina/os and the Communities They Speak	p. 3
Tracing the Emergence of Latin@ Vernaculars in Studies of Latin@ Communication	p. 17
The Rhetorical Legacy of Coyolxauhqui: (Re)collecting and (Re)membering Voice	p. 31
Acts of In/Exclusion	p. 57
Gender Politics, Democratic Demand and Anti-Essentialism in the New York Young Lords	p. 59
DREAMers' Discourse: Young Latino/a Immigrants and the Naturalization of the American Dream	p. 81
Nuestro Himno as Heterotopic Mimicry: On the Ambivalences of a Latin@ Voicing	p. 101
Latinidad in Ugly Betty: Authenticity and the Paradox of Representation	p. 123
Trans/National Voces	p. 145
Of Rocks and Nations: Voces Rockeras [Rock Music Voices] and the Discourse of ôNationalityö	p. 147
When Sexual Becomes Spiritual: Lila Downs and the Body of Voice	p. 169
ôThis is One Line You Won't Have to Worry about Crossingö: Crossing Borders and Becoming	p. 185
Hablando Por (Nos)Otros, Speaking for Ourselves: Exploring the Possibilities of ôSpeaking Porö Family and Pueblo in the Bolivian Testimonio ôSi Me Permiten Hablarö	p. 203
Appendix: Further Readings	p. 223
References	p. 241
Index	p. 265
About the Editors and Contributors	p. 273
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