Spatializing Unruly Latinidades: Advancing the Heuristic of the Palimpsest With the "New" Latinx South

• In Event: Pushing the Boundaries of Latinidad: Expanding Research on Latina/o/x Communities

Abstract

We contribute to timely theorizations about (unruly) Latinidad(es) by spatializing them. We suggest that centering space and place, and how space and place intersect with race and other axes of difference, adds a significant, and undertheorized layer to discussions about the construction, contingency, and complexity of Latinidad, and how this impacts educational spaces broadly. Using El Sur Latinx as a case, we show how thinking with and alongside the palimpsest allows us to engage with the layers upon layers of racialized histories, subjectivities, discourses, and relationships (of Latinidad) that are always already being rewritten, invisibilized, and resisted.

Authors

• Timothy Monreal, University at Buffalo - SUNY

• Rebeca Gamez, Vanderbilt University