U.S. Latino/a Studies and Our Latin American Continent

Session Submission Type: Panel

Abstract

These U.S. Latina and Latino panel participants argue for a Latin American Continent, an update to Martí’s “Nuestra América” of 1891, that includes Global North and South. Our hemispheric globalization can exist within the grand narratives of migration, diaspora, displacement, and borders that undergird national identities. Our globalized América can also be experienced through a city street, a taxi ride, a song, a dance, a feeling. These scholars present U.S. Latino Studies/Latin American Studies without exclusionary disciplinary borders demonstrating that pioneering work in Latin American Studies can come from the northern reaches of Our Latin American Continent.

Sub Track

• Migration, Displacements, Diasporas

Session Organizer

• Hector V Calderon, University of California/Los Angeles

Chair

• Hector V Calderon, University of California/Los Angeles

Individual Presentations

• Brazilian like Us: Saudade and the U.S. Brazilian Diaspora in Kathleen de Azevedo's "Samba Dreamers" - Juanita I Heredia, Northern Arizona University

• México Negro Identities across Borders: From Yanga to "Mi negro pasado" - Christian Y Bermúdez Castro

• “The Trans-Urban Intersectionality of Chicago/Ciudad de México in Juan Villoro's ‘Chicago’ and Sandra Cisneros's 'Caramelo' - Alejandro Ramirez-Mendez

• Dear Dancing in Mictlán: Diaspora and Cultural Mixing in Silviana Wood’s "Yo, Casimiro Flores" - Ariel Z Tumbaga, Antelope Valley College