Latining America: Black-brown Passages And The Coloring Of Latino/a Studies (the New Southern Studies Ser.)

With Latining America , Claudia Milian proposes that the economies of blackness, brownness, and dark brownness summon a new grammar for Latino/a studies that she names "Latinities." Milian's innovative study argues that this ensnared economy of meaning startles the typical reading practices deployed for brown Latino/a embodiment. Latining America keeps company with and challenges existent models of Latinidad, demanding a distinct paradigm that puts into question what is understood as Latino and Latina today. Milian conceptually considers how underexplored "Latin" participants—the southern, the black, the dark brown, the Central American—have ushered in a new world of "Latined" signification from the 1920s to the present. Examining not who but what constitutes the Latino and Latina, Milian's new critical Latinities disentangle the brown logic that marks "Latino/a" subjects. She expands on and deepens insights in transamerican discourses, narratives of passing, popular culture, and contemporary art. This daring and original project uncovers previously ignored and unremarked upon cultural connections and global crossings whereby African Americans and Latinos traverse and reconfigure their racialized classifications. With this book, the author proposes that the economies of blackness, brownness, and dark brownness summon a new grammar for Latino/a studies that she names "Latinities." The author's innovative study argues that this ensnared economy of meaning startles the typical reading practices deployed for brown Latino/a embodiment. This book keeps company with and challenges existent models of Latinidad, demanding a distinct paradigm that puts into question what is understood as Latino and Latina Cover 1 CONTENTS 6 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 8 INTRODUCTION: The Copiousness of Latin 14 CHAPTER ONE: Southern Latinities 38 CHAPTER TWO: Passing Latinities 72 CHAPTER THREE: Indigent Latinities 106 CHAPTER FOUR: Disorienting Latinities 136 EPILOGUE: @ 164 NOTES 172 WORKS CITED 272 INDEX 302 A 302 B 303 C 303 D 305 E 306 F 306 G 306 H 307 I 307 J 307 K 308 L 308 M 309 N 310 O 311 P 311 Q 311 R 311 S 312 T 313 U 313 V 313 W 313 X 314 Y 314 Z 314