Expanding US Latinidad or What’s New about the “New” Latin Diasporas?
Acknowledging the invaluable corpus of research on Chicano, Cuban American, Mexican American, and Puerto Rican communities, this panel seeks to expand and deepen our understanding of the Latin diaspora and is preferably looking for contributions on “other” Latin communities of Caribbean, Central, and South American origins such as Argentine, Brazilian, Colombian, Dominican, Nicaraguan, Panamanian, Salvadorian, Venezuelan Americans, of among others, African, Arabic, Asian, Eastern European, Jewish, and indigenous ancestries. Comparative papers on varieties of Spanglish(es) and literary works in Spanglish are also most welcome.
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Papers might equally address the following issues:
- What are the benefits and/or limitations of attempts to label Latins of Caribbean, Central and South American ancestry “Alterlatinos” (McClennen), “new Latins,” or “the Other Latinos” (Falconi and Mazzotti)?
- How have these “alter,” “new,” “Other” Latin diaporic groups influenced US American culture? To what extent have they transformed the cultures/politics/social practices of their countries of origin?
- What is the position of Brazilians, Guyanese, Haitians, Portuguese, Spaniards, and persons of Spanish ancestry within US Latin/Hispanic discourse? How do these extraordinarily diverse peoples, who to a substantial extent are perceived as Latins/Hispanics in the US popular imagination, challenge, redefine, or reify US Latinidad?
This section seeks to have contributions from as wide a variety of disciplinary backgrounds as possible and encourages submissions from history, literary history, linguistics, music, dance, sculpture, painting, political science, sociology, anthropology, and other fields.