Ethnographic Refusals, Unruly Latinidades
Ethnographic Refusals, Unruly Latinidades
The contributors in Ethnographic Refusals, Unruly Latinidades highlight the value of "radical inclusion" in their research and call for a critical self-reflexivity that marshals the power of bearing witness to move from rhetoric to praxis in support of these methodologies within anthropological perspectives. The essays in this collection do not offer simple solutions to histories of colonialism, patriarchy, and misogyny through which gender binaries and racial hierarches have been imposed and reproduced, but rather provide a crucial opportunity for reflection on and continued reimagination of the contours of Latinidad. These scholars deploy Latinx strategically as part of ongoing dialogues, understanding that their terminologies are inherently imprecise, contested, and constantly shifting. Each chapter explores how Latinx ethnographers and interlocutors work together in contexts of refusal—ever mindful of how power shapes these encounters and the analyses that emerge from them—as well as the extraordinary possibilities offered by ethnography and its role in ongoing social transformation.
Alex E. Chávez is the Nancy O’Neill Associate Professor of Anthropology and a faculty fellow of the Institute for Latino Studies at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of the award-winning book Sounds of Crossing: Music, Migration, and the Aural Poetics of Huapango Arribeño and the producer of the Smithsonian Folkways album Serrano de Corázon. Gina M. Pérez is a professor in the Department of Comparative American Studies at Oberlin College. Her most recent book, Citizen, Student, Soldier: Latina/o Youth, JROTC, and the American Dream, was awarded an honorable mention by the Association of Latina and Latino Anthropologists.
Foreword
Arlene M. Dávila
Introduction
Ana Aparicio, Andrea Bolivar, Alex E. Chávez, Sherina Feliciano-Santos, Santiago Guerra, Gina M. Pérez, Jonathan Rosa, Gilberto Rosas, Aimee Villarreal, and Patricia Zavella
Chapter One. "While You Are Struggling, You Are Healing": Latinas Enact Poder through the Movement for Reproductive Justice
Patricia Zavella
Chapter Two. Taíno and Afro-Taíno Narrative, Performance, and Resistencia in Puerto Rico and the United States
Sherina Feliciano-Santos
Chapter Three. The Urban Sonorous and Collective Witness in the City of Neighborhoods
Alex E. Chávez
Chapter Four. Diasporic Signs: Puerto Rican Placemaking, Latinx Artivism, and the Aesthetics of Resistance
Jonathan Rosa and David Flores
Chapter Five. Race, Trash Talk, and Dissent in Contemporary Suburbia
Ana Aparicio
Chapter Six. Trans-Latina Fantasías: Creating Trans Latina Selves, Families, and Futures
Andrea Bolivar
Chapter Seven. The Drug War, Drug Reform, and the Latinx Community: An Ethnographic Perspective from the Texas-Mexico Border and Colorado
Santiago Ivan Guerra
Chapter Eight. Becoming a Sanctuary People: Latina/o Practices of Accompaniment in Northeast Ohio
Gina M. Pérez
Chapter Nine. Witnessing in Brown: On Making Dead to Let Live
Gilberto Rosas
Chapter Ten. Anthropolocura as Homeplace Ethnography
Aimee Villarreal
Afterword. Uncertain Future(s): Latinidad, Anthropology, Institutions
Vanessa Díaz, Sergio Lemus, and Ryan Mann-Hamilton
References
List of Contributors
Index
