Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Latinidad in the Flesh: An Intimate Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Horizontal Hierarchies: The Transnational Tensions in Latinidad
Familia
2. Chicago Encounters: Loving the National Other
3. The Motifs of Latinidad: Negotiating Nationalities and Struggling for Multiple Belongings
4. Of Fathers and Mothers: Gender and National (Dis)Identifications
Race and Language
5. Relational Racializations: Skin Color as Other
6. Negotiating Spanish: Linguistic Boundaries and Transculturations
Passing and Performance
7. Passing for Mexican: Relational Identities in Latina/o Chicago
8. Performing the National Other: Visual and Sonic Passing
Rewriting Labels
9. The “New” Americana/os: Intralatina/os and the Utopia of National Hybridities
10. Toward a New Research Agenda
Appendix: Interview Questions
Notes
Works Cited
Index
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