3157 - What is Latino Sociology?

Session Submission Type: Invited Session

Description

The purpose of this session is to interrogate and engage the strands of sociological research in Latino sociology and its foundational roots, changing themes over the last 4 decades and its contemporary foci? Whom does the broad pan-ethnic term represent and who gets lost in the discourse? What is being taught in the discipline about Latinos and who is creating and writing about the "Latino experiences”? What is the core sociological issue that requires redress in our communities? Or are their different social issues and political agendas among Latino subgroups? Panelists will engage in a discussion of past and current themes in Chicano and/or Latino sociology, the institutionalization of Chicano thought and the varying meanings and interpretation of intersectional identity thought. The panelists will seek to envision the roots, transformational processes of the study of self-identified Latino population groups and its institutionalized and theoretical reality as a sub discipline of sociology.

Sub Unit

• Special Session

Session Organizer

• Ruth E. Zambrana, University of Maryland

Presider

• Ruth E. Zambrana, University of Maryland

Individual Presentations

• Latinx Intersectional Identity Formation across National-Origin, Ethnicity, Panethnicity, and Race - Zulema Valdez, University of California-Merced

• Is There a Latino Sociology? - Maxine Baca Zinn, MIchigan State University; Alfredo Mirande, University of California

• Latina/o/x Sociology: From Insurrection to Institutionalization - Denise A. Segura, University of California-Santa Barbara