3. “A Cartel Built for Love”: “Medellín,” Pablo Escobar, and the Scripts of Global Colombianidad

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Critical Diálogo 1. US Imperialism and Colonial Legacies of Latinx Migrations
5. 1. Puerto Rico: The Ascent and Decline of an American Colony 13
6. 2. Borders and Crossings: Lessons of the 1980s Central American Solidarity Movement for 2010s Sanctuary Practices 27
7. 3. “A Cartel Built for Love”: “Medellín,” Pablo Escobar, and the Scripts of Global Colombianidad 39
8. 4. Geographies of Race and Ethnicity III: Settler Colonialism and Nonnative People of Color 51
9. Critical Diálogo 2. The Politics of Labeling Latinidades and Social Movements
10. 5. Disposable Strangers: Mexican Americans, Latinxs, and the Ethnic Label “Hispanic” in the Twenty- First Century 67
11. 6. Querying Central America(n) from the US Diaspora 81
12. 7. More than Christian and Mestizo: Race, Culture, and Identity within Latino/a Theology and Religious Studies 94
13. 8. DNA+Latinx: Complicando the Double Helix 104
14. Critical Diálogo 3. Recasting Spaces, Embodying Community
15. 9. Guatemalan- Origin Children’s Transnational Ties 121
16. 10. Placing Text: Culture, Place, and the Affective Dimension of Vernacular Ambient Text 134
17. 11. (Re)Claiming Public Space and Place: Maya Community Formation in Westlake/MacArthur Park 146
18. 12. Health Brokers, Shrinks, and Urban Shamans Revisited: Networks of Care among Argentine Immigrants in New York City 157
19. Critical Diálogo 4. Surveillance and Policing in Everyday Life
20. 13. #FamiliesBelongTogether: Central American Family Separations from the 1980s to 2019 173
21. 14. Colonial Projects: Public Housing and the Management of Puerto Ricans in New York City, 1945– 1970 186
22. 15. Puerto Rico, Palestine, and the Politics of Resistance and Surveillance at the University of Illinois Chicago Circle 197
23. 16. “Now Why Do You Want to Know about That?”: Heteronormativity, Sexism, and Racism in the Sexual (Mis)education of Latina Youth 211
24. 17. Refashioning Afro- Latinidad: Garifuna New Yorkers in Diaspora 223
25. Critical Diálogo 5. Work and the Politics of “Deservingness”
26. 18. The Life and Times of Trans Activist Sylvia Rivera 241
27. 19. “Blossom as the Rose”: Exploring a Politics of Worthiness for Millennial Latina/o Latter Day Saints 254
28. 20. Guillermo Alvarez Guedes and the Politics of Play in Cuban America 266
29. 21. Urban Designers and the Politics of Latinizing the Built Environment 279
30. 22. The Bronx in Focus: The Visual Politics of En Foco, Inc. 291
31. Critical Diálogo 6. Citizenship Subjects and “Illegality”
32. 23. Racialized Hauntings of the Devalued Dead 307
33. 24. “Citizenship Takes Practice”: Latina/o Youth, JROTC, and the Performance of Citizenship 320
34. 25. In Pursuit of Property and Forgiveness: Lin- Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton and In the Heights 332
35. 26. Leaving Lima Behind: The Immigration of Peruvian Professionals to Miami 344
36. Critical Diálogo 7. Disciplining Institutions, Evicting Regimes
37. 27. Latino Anti- Black Bias and the Census Categorization of Latinos: Race, Ethnicity, or Other? 361
38. 28. Regulating Space and Time: The Disciplining of Latina and Black Sheltered- Homeless Women in NYC 373
39. 29. The Afterlife of US Disciplining Institutions: Transnational Structures of (Im)mobility among Peruvian Deportees 386
40. 30. Wars, Diasporas, and Un/Re- Rooted Familial Geographies: From Springfield, Massachusetts, to São Paulo, Brazil, and Beyond 398
41. 31. Regeneration: Love, Drugs, and the Remaking of Hispano Inheritance 411
42. Critical Diálogo 8. Latinx Kinship and Relatedness
43. 32. Blackness, Latinidad, and Minority Linked Fate 425
44. 33. Chongivity Activity: Latinx Hyperfemininity as Iconography, Performance, and Praxis of Belonging 438
45. 34. Capturing the Church Familia: Scriptural Documents and Photographs on the Agricultural Labor Circuit 457
46. 35. Aguanile: Critical Listening, Mourning, and Decolonial Healing 476
47. Critical Diálogo 9. Community Engagement, Critical Methodologies, and Social Justice
48. 36. The Power and Possibilities of a Latinx Community- Academic Praxis in Civic Engagement 491
49. 37. Bridging Activism and Teaching in Latinx Studies 504
50. 38. On Being a White Person of Color: Using Autoethnography to Understand Puerto Ricans’ Racialization 516
51. 39. Brujx: An Afro- Latinx Queer Gesture 528
52. About the Contributors 539
53. Index 553