INTRODUCTION. Mambo Montage: The Latinization of New York City

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix
4. CONTRIBUTORS xi
5. INTRODUCTION. Mambo Montage: The Latinization of New York City 1
6. Part I. The Production of Latinidad: Histories, Social Movements, Cultural Struggles
7. 1. “No Country But the One We Must Fight For”: The Emergence of an Antillean Nation and Community in New York City, 1860-1901 57
8. 2. “The latins from Manhattan”: Confronting Race and Building Community in Jim Crow Baseball, 1906-1950 73
9. 3. Latino Caribbean Diasporas in New York 97
10. 4. Niuyol: Urban Regime, Latino Social Movements, Ideologies of Latinidad 119
11. 5. Culture in the Battlefront: From Nationalist to Pan-Latina Projects 159
12. Part II. Expressive Cultures: Narrating, Imaging, and Performing Latinidad
13. 6. Life off the Hyphen: Latino Literature and Nuyorican Traditions 185
14. 7. “Nothing Connects Us All But Imagined Sounds”: Performing Trans-Boricua Memories, Identities, and Nationalisms Through the Death of Héctor Lavoe 207
15. 8. Hip-Hop, Puerto Ricans, and Ethnoracial Identities in New York 235
16. 9. Imbiguous Identities! The Affirmation of Puertorriqueñidad in the Community Murals of New York City 263
17. Part III. Latino/a Identities and the Politics of Space and Place
18. 10. Making Loisaida: Placing Puertorriqueñidad in Lower Manhattan 293
19. 11. The Manifold Character of Panethnicity: Latino Identities and Practices Among Dominicans in New York City 319
20. 12. Immigration Status and Identity: Undocumented Mexicans in New York 337
21. 13. Outside/In: Crossing Queer and Latino Boundaries 363
22. 14. Engendering and Coloring Labor Unions: Transcultural Readings of Latin American Women’s Ways 387
23. Part IV: Latinizing Cityscapes
24. 15. The Latin Side of Madison Avenue: Marketing and the Language that Makes Us "Hispanics" 411
25. 16. Eating in Cuban 425
26. 17. Taking “Class” Into Account: Dance, the Studio, and Latino Culture 449
27. 18. Deceptive Solidity: Public Signs, Civic Inclusion, and Language Rights in New York City (and Beyond) 473