Mapping Latina/o Studies ─ An Interdisciplinary Reader

Mapping Latina/o Studies brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars to discuss the dynamic field of Latina/o Studies. Drawing on media studies, communications, history, education, literature, anthropology, popular music, and sociology, this collection explores the limits and possibilities of the category of Latinidad. The volume includes scholars who support the continuity of nation-specific identities and areas of study such as Chicano and Dominican Studies, in conversation with scholars who not only work within Latina/o Studies as a pan-ethnic, pan-national category but also explore the inevitable transnationality of a category whose people and culture flow across national borders.

Angharad N. Valdivia is Research Professor of Communications and Media at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is Head of the Department of Media and Cinema Studies and the Interim Director of the Institute of Communications Research. Her research and teaching focus on transnational popular culture studies with an emphasis on gender and ethnicity. She has published many books and articles on Latina/o media studies.
Matthew Garcia is Professor of Transborder Studies and History and Director of the new Comparative Border Studies Program at Arizona State University. He is the author of A World of Its Own: Race, Labor, and Citrus in the Making of Greater Los Angeles, 1900-1970 (2001), which was named co-winner for the best book in oral history by the Oral History Association in 2003, and the forthcoming book A Moveable Feast: Cesar Chavez and The United Farm Workers’ Grape Boycott.