Latining America : Black-Brown Passages and the Coloring of Latino/a Studies

• Main Author: Milian, Claudia (auth)
• Format: eBook
• Published: Athens University of Georgia Press 20130102
• Subjects: Sociology; social science; minority studies; discrimination; race relations; literary history; literary criticism; cultural pluralism; hispanic american studies; african american studies; race; ethnicity; atlantic world; Central America; Chicano; Latin; Latin America; Mexico; Race and ethnicity in the United States Census; United States
• Online Access: Get fulltext
• ISBN: j.ctt46n76g; 9780820344362;9780820353029
• Access: Open Access

Claudia Milian proposes that the economies of blackness, brownness, and dark brownness summon a new grammar for Latino/a studies that she names "Latinities." Milian argues that this ensnared economy of meaning startles the typical reading practices deployed for brown Latino/a embodiment. Latining America keeps company with and challenges existent models of Latinidad, demanding a distinct paradigm that puts into question what is understood as Latino and Latina today. Milian conceptually considers how underexplored "Latin" participants-the southern, the black, the dark brown, the Central American-have ushered in a new world of "Latined" signification from the 1920s to the present.