Aldo A. Lauria Santiago, Ulla D. Berg, Olga Jiménez De Wage, Raymond Sanchez Mayers, Lyna L. Wiggins

Latinas/OS in New Jersey

Histories, Communities, and Cultures
Herausgeber: Lauria Santiago, Aldo A; Berg, Ulla D

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Produktbeschreibung

Collection of essays by Johana Londoäno and 21 others.

Produktdetails

• CERES: Rutgers Studies in History
• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 404
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Januar 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 159mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 472g
• ISBN-13: 9781978826175
• ISBN-10: 1978826176
• Artikelnr.: 70455164

Autorenporträt

ALDO A. LAURIA SANTIAGO is a professor in the Departments of Latino and Caribbean Studies and History at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. He is the co-author of Rethinking the Struggle for Puerto Rican Rights. At Rutgers he directs the Center for Latin American Studies and co-coordinates the Latino Studies Research Initiative. ULLA D. BERG is an associate professor in the Departments of Latino and Caribbean Studies and Anthropology at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. She is the author of Mobile Selves: Race, Migration and Belonging Between Peru and the US. OLGA JIMENEZ de WAGENHEIM is a professor emerita in history at Rutgers University, Newark, where she taught and mentored for more than twenty years. She is the author of The Puerto Ricans: A Documentary History and Puerto Rico’s Revolt for Independence.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
OLGA JIMÉNEZ DE WAGENHEIM
Introduction: Framing Latinos in New Jersey: From Invisibility to
Empowerment
ALDO A . LAURIA SANTIAGO AND ULLA D. BERG
Part I Spaces and Places
1 Latino New Jersey: A Demographic and Geographic Portrait
RAYMOND SÁNCHEZ MAYERS, LYNA L. WIGGINS, ELSA CANDELARIO, AND LAURA CURRAN
2 Latino Segregation across New Jersey Counties: Are Latino Groups Becoming
More or Less Residentially Segregated during the Last Four Decades?
GIOVANI BURGOS, ALEX F. TRILLO, AND ANIL VENKATESH
3 The Gateway Reconsidered: The Paradox of Latinx Barrioization in a
Connected Metropolis
JOHANA LONDOÑO
4 From Havana on the Hudson to Bolivar’s Enclave: Change, Solidarity, and
Conflict in Pan-Latinx Space
ALEX F. TRILLO AND JENNIFER AYALA
5 “Aggressive Newark”: Puerto Ricans, Brazilians, and Structuring Feelings
under Neoliberalism
ANA Y. RAMOS-ZAYAS
Part II Histories
6 Peruvians in Paterson, New Jersey, 1920–1950
GIANNCARLO MUSCHI
7 “A Recoger Tomates”: Puerto Rican Farmworkers in the Garden State,
1940s–1980s
ISMAEL GARCÍA COLÓN AND WILLIAM SUÁREZ GÓMEZ
8 Puerto Ricans in New Jersey: Migration, Settlement, and Work, 1940s–1980s
ALDO A . LAURIA SANTIAGO
9 A Century of Cuban Music in New Jersey
BENJAMIN LAPIDUS
Part III Experiences
10 Mexican Immigrants Fighting for Educational Justice: Community Activism
to Save a New Brunswick Public School
LILIA FERNÁNDEZ
11 Forgotten Voices: Gender and Social Networks in Paterson’s Peruvian
Community
ELENA SABOGAL
12 “La Iglesia Católica es Mi Comunidad”: A Union City Latinx Destination
from Arrival to Old Age
MELANIE Z. PLASENCIA
13 Parque Oaxaca/Jotería: Trans Latina History in New Brunswick from Urban
Renewal to the Coronavirus Pandemic
DANIELA VALDES
Part IV Institutions
14 Reverse Diasporas: Immigrant Detention, Deportation, and Latinx
Communities in New Jersey and South America
ULLA D. BERG
15 Latinx LGBTQ Students and Placemaking in School: Voguing and Ball
Culture at Elizabeth High, 1989–1994
YAMIL AVIVI
16 From Puerto Rican to Latino Studies at Rutgers University: Fifty Years
of Student Activism
KATHLEEN LÓPEZ
Notes on Contributors
Index