Reimagining US Colombianidades: Transnational subjectivities, cultural expressions, and political contestations (The Latino Studies, 3)

This book focuses our attention on yet another community that has been scantily represented in Latino/a/x studies scholarship. US Colombians are no longer content to be characterized as “the other Latinos,” and the editors of this special issue make the case that study of US Colombianidades enhances and productively troubles Latino/a/x studies. This engaging set of essays highlights the rich diversity of US Colombianidades as well as the group’s similarities and differences with other Latino/a/x groups. With its innovative cultural studies and social sciences perspectives and interpretive theories, this volume offers a deep dive into issues such as how racial, gender, sexual, and socioeconomic realities shape US Colombian experience; the representation of US Colombians in popular culture; interethnic relations between Colombians and other Latina/o/xs; the political participation of Colombians in US electoral politics; Colombian transnational understandings of identity; and much more. Iwant to thank the editors of this special issue―Lina Rincón, Johana Londoño, Jennifer Harford Vargas, and María Elena Cepeda―for curating a set of articles that will most certainly inspire Latino/a/x studies scholars to expand our notions of Latinidades and be attentive to the ways in which a focus on US Colombianidades complicates and enriches our field. Previously published in Latino Studies Volume 18, issue 3, September 2020 Contents A note from the editor Reimagining US Colombianidades: Transnational subjectivities, cultural expressions, and political contestations Contesting representational paradigms Archiving the transhistorical presence of Colombians in the United States Contextualizing the transnational experiences of US Colombians Framing the futures of US Colombianidades within Latinidad Acknowledgements References Latina feminist moments of recognition: Contesting the boundaries of gendered US Colombianidad in Bomba Estéreo’s “Soy yo” Abstract Resumen On being hailed: Media traces and US ColombianaLatina subjectivities Dying to see and hear ourselves: Latinas, US Colombianas, and media invisibility Latina feminist moments of recognition: The command of the US ColombianaLatina gaze Mediated US Colombianidad: Diasporic subjectivities and state-sponsored selves Conclusion: Media legibility and the “othered other” Acknowledgements References Diasporic home: US Colombian belonging and becoming in Patricia Engel’s Vida Abstract Resumen Home: A condition in process Transdiasporic bodies in a diasporic home Home in motion Home as relation Privileged failure Life, but how much? Acknowledgements References Asserting difference: Racialized expressions of Colombianidades in Philadelphia Abstract Resumen Navigating racial hierarchies in Colombia and in the United States Racialization and intra-Latinaox dynamics Asserting difference in Philadelphia Methods Findings Colombia y Venezuela: Here and there, then and now Laborious frictions: Colombians and Puerto Ricans Forming lo Caribeño: Disposition, gender, sexuality, and dress The consequences of Colombianidades Acknowledgements References Disaggregating the Latinaox “umbrella”: The political attitudes of US Colombians Abstract Resumen The Latinaox1 umbrella? Latinasosxs as one group Latinaox political incorporation Colombian Americans in comparison to other Latinaox subgroups Colombian political incorporation Toward understanding US Colombian political attitudes and behavior Data and methods Results US Colombians and the nuance of the Latinaox vote Acknowledgements References New York’s lonely streets: Constructions of soledad in Colombianx migrant experiences Abstract Resumen Feeling soledad Study background Urban history in Queens Fragmentation of urban space in Jackson Heights The space–time of soledad Soledad guardado Colombianx desconfianza Soledad and kinship The continuing impacts of Colombianx soledad Acknowledgements References Concrete disavowal: Re-placing Colombian communities into the New York landscape before World War II Acknowledgements References ¿Y qué de Andrés? On the need for queer-centered asylum laws and histories Finding out about sexuality-based asylum claims Filing for and being granted asylum Life after asylum status Andrés’ critiques of the asylum process Acknowledgements References Strategies of segregation: Race, residence, and the struggle for educational equality References Pathways of desire: The sexual migration of Mexican gay men Undocumented storytellers: Narrating the immigrant rights movement Deported to death: How drug violence is changing migration on the US–Mexico border Ricanness: Enduring time in anticolonial performance Correction to: Listening to more than salsa: A letter of appreciation to Dr. Frances R. Aparicio Correction to: Latino Studies https​:doi.org10.1057s4127​6-020-00252​-w Correction to: New York’s lonely streets: Constructions of soledad in Colombianx migrant experiences