Living in Spanglish The Search for Latino Identity in America

Name: Living in Spanglish The Search for Latino Identity in America
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ISBN: 9780312310004

ISBN-10: 0312310005

ISBN-13: 9780312310004

Edition: Revised

Authors: Ed Morales, Elizabeth Beier

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Chicano. Cubano. Pachuco. Nuyorican. Puerto Rican. Boricua. Quisqueya. Tejano. To be Latino in the United States in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries has meant to fierce identification with roots, with forbears, with the language, art and food your people came here with. America is a patchwork of Hispanic sensibilities-from Puerto Rican nationalists in New York to more newly arrived Mexicans in the Rio Grande valley-that has so far resisted homogenization while managing to absorb much of the mainstream culture. Living in Spanglish delves deep into the individual's response to Latino stereotypes and suggests that their ability to hold on to their heritage, while at the same time…

Book details

List price: $23.99
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Publication date: 3/1/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.72" tall
Weight: 0.902
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Author's Note


Introduction: What I'm Talking About When I Speak in Spanglish, or the Spanglish Manifesto



The Roots of Spanglish



Spanglish Goes Underground to Reinvent Itself



Speaking in Spanglish



La Farandula del Norte: The Chameleon Syndrome



La Musica: The Essence of Spanglish



California Dreamin'



East Coast - West Coast: The Imagined and Real Properties of an Intracontinental Latino Cultural and Political Divide



I Am Cuba



Puerto Rico - The First Spanglish Nation



Toward a Spanglish Hemisphere


Index