Keywords for Latina/o Studies is a generative text that enhances the ongoing dialogue within a rapidly growing and changing field. The keywords included in this collection represent established and emergent terms, categories, and concepts that undergird Latina/o studies; they delineate the shifting contours of a field best thought of as an intellectual imaginary and experiential project of social and cultural identities within the U.S. academy.

Table of Contents

• Acknowledgments
• Introduction - Deborah R. Vargas, Nancy Raquel Mirabal, and Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes
• 1. Afro-Latinas/os - Tanya Katerí Hernández
• 2. Americas - Alexandra T. Vazquez
• 3. Art - Rita Gonzalez
• 4. Assimilation - Catherine S. Ramírez
• 5. Barrio - Gina M. Pérez
• 6. Borderlands - Nicole M. Guidotti-Hernández
• 7. Brown - Joshua Javier Guzmán
• 8. Capitalism - Ramona Hernández
• 9. Chicana, Chicano, Chican@, Chicanx - Sheila Marie Contreras
• 10. Citizenship - Nicholas De Genova
• 11. Culture - Arlene Dávila
• 12. Decolonial - María Lugones
• 13. Diaspora - Ricardo L. Ortíz
• 14. Education - Angela Valenzuela
• 15. Empire - Lázaro Lima
• 16. Exile - José Quiroga
• 17. Family - Richard T. Rodríguez
• 18. Feminisms - María Eugenia Cotera
• 19. Film - Sergio de la Mora
• 20. Food - Zilkia Janer
• 21. Gender - Sandra K. Soto
• 22. Health - John Mckiernan-González
• 23. History - Gerald E. Poyo
• 24. Housing - Zaire Z. Dinzey-Flores
• 25. Hyphen - Frederick Luis Aldama
• 26. Illegality - Cecilia Menjívar
• 27. Incarceration - Michael Hames-García
• 28. Indigeneity - Maylei Blackwell
• 29. Labor - Shannon Gleeson
• 30. Language - John Nieto-Phillips
• 31. Latinidad/es - Frances R. Aparicio
• 32. Law - Enid Trucios-Haynes
• 33. Literature - Ana Patricia Rodríguez
• 34. Maquiladoras - Norma Iglesias-Prieto
• 35. Media - Mari Castañeda
• 36. Mestizaje - Alicia Arrizón
• 37. Militarism - Manuel G. Avilés-Santiago
• 38. Modernity - José F. Aranda Jr.
• 39. Music - María Elena Cepeda
• 40. Nationalism - Raúl Coronado
• 41. Performance - Ramón H. Rivera-Servera
• 42. Philosophy - Linda Martín Alcoff and Rolando Pérez
• 43. Poetry - Urayoán Noel
• 44. Politics - John A. García
• 45. Popular Culture - Curtis Marez
• 46. Poverty - Patricia Zavella
• 47. Race - Silvio Torres-Saillant and Nancy Kang
• 48. Radio - Dolores Inés Casillas
• 49. Rasquachismo - Laura G. Gutiérrez
• 50. Raza - B. V. Olguín
• 51. Religion - Anne M. Martínez
• 52. Sexuality - Juana María Rodríguez
• 53. Social Movements - Randy J. Ontiveros
• 54. Sovereignty - Nelson Maldonado-Torres
• 55. Spanglish - Ana Celia Zentella
• 56. Spirituality - Theresa Delgadillo
• 57. Sterilization - Alexandra Minna Stern
• 58. Television - Mary Beltrán
• 59. Territoriality - Mary Pat Brady
• 60. Testimonio - Arnaldo Cruz-Malavé
• 61. Theater - Lillian Manzor
• 62. Transnationalism - Ginetta E. B. Candelario
• 63. White - Julie A. Dowling
• Bibliography
• About the Contributors