{"product_id":"latinx-belonging-natalia-deeb-sossa-9780816547319","title":"Latinx Belonging: Community Building and Resilience in the United States","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat does it mean to be \u003ci\u003eLatinx\u003c\/i\u003e? This pressing question forms the core of \u003ci\u003eLatinx Belonging, \u003c\/i\u003ewhich brings together cutting-edge research to discuss the multilayered ways this might be answered. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eLatinx Belonging\u003c\/i\u003e is anchored in the claim that Latinx people are not defined by their marginalization but should instead be understood as active participants in their communities and contributors to U.S. society. The volume's overarching analytical approach recognizes the differences, identities, and divisions among people of Latin American origin in the United States, while also attending to the power of mainstream institutions to shape their lives and identities. Contributors to this volume view \"belonging\" as actively produced through struggle, survival, agency, resilience, and engagement. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This work positions Latinxs' struggles for recognition and inclusion as squarely located within intersecting power structures of gender, race, sexuality, and class and as shaped by state-level and transnational forces such as U.S. immigration policies and histories of colonialism. From the case of Latinxs' struggles for recognition in the arts, to queer Latinx community resilience during COVID-19 and in the wake of mass shootings, to Indigenous youth's endurance and survival as unaccompanied minors in Los Angeles, the case studies featured in this collection present a rich and textured picture of the diversity of the U.S. Latinx experience in the twenty-first century.\u003cp\u003eContributors \u003cbr\u003e Andr駸 Acosta \u003cbr\u003e Jack \"Trey\" Allen \u003cbr\u003e Jennifer Bickham Mendez \u003cbr\u003e Stephanie L. Canizales \u003cbr\u003e Christopher Cuevas \u003cbr\u003e Natalia Deeb-Sossa \u003cbr\u003e Yvette G. Flores \u003cbr\u003e Melanie Jones Gast \u003cbr\u003e Monika Gosin \u003cbr\u003e Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo \u003cbr\u003e Nolan Kline \u003cbr\u003e Verica Montes \u003cbr\u003e Yvonne Montoya \u003cbr\u003e Michael De Anda Muz \u003cbr\u003e Suzanne Oboler \u003cbr\u003e Gilda L. Ochoa \u003cbr\u003e Dina G. Okamoto \u003cbr\u003e Marco Antonio Quiroga \u003cbr\u003e Michelle T駘lez\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Natalia Deeb-Sossa\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0816547319\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780816547319\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Arizona Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/18\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 312\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Natalia Deeb-Sossa","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44070860194047,"sku":"9780816547319","price":100.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_554ea86a-51b8-442a-b654-e09c84bce7a3.jpg?v=1685432752","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/latinx-belonging-natalia-deeb-sossa-9780816547319","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}