Suzanne Oboler

Latinos and Citizenship: The Dilemma of Belonging Suzanne Oboler 2006 edition

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Avail. in paper. Review Quotes: "The nation's fast-growing Latino population raises a host of vital issues for American politics in the 21st century. What forms of 'belonging' will Latinos embrace, or be able to embrace? To what extent will ugly forms of nativism re-emerge? Will Latinos work to transform citizenship in more regional, trans-national, or multi-national directions? The stimulating essays collected in Suzanne Oboler's "Latinos and Citizenship" provide enriching food for thought on these and many other crucial questions."--Rogers M. Smith, Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania "Oboler has assembled a provocative combination of essays from a variety of research fields, all dealing with the question of Latino citizenship... A well-edited and well-written book, this volume is a welcome addition to the litearture... Highly recommended." --"CHOICE"Brief Description: "Transferred to digital printing in 2008."--T.p. versoBiographical Note: Suzanne Oboler is Associate Professor of Latino and Latin American Studies, University of Illinois at Chicago, and editor of the the Journal of "Latino Studies" (Palgrave). Table of Contents: Introduction: Redefining Citizenship as a Lived Experience--Suzanne Oboler * "How They Ignore our Rights as American Citizens: " Puerto Rican Migrants and the Politics of Citizenship in the New Deal Era--Lorrin Thomas * The Legal Production of Mexican/Migrant "Illegality."--Nicholas de Genova * Regulating Transnational Citizens in the Post-1996 Welfare Reform Era: Dominican Immigrants in New York City--Greta Gilbertson * Dual Citizenship and Political Participation: Migrants in the Interplay of United States and Colombian Politics--Cristina Escobar * Roads to Citizenship: Mexican Migrants in the United States--Alejandra Castaneda * Boundaries, Language, and the Self: Issues Faced by Puerto Ricans and Other Latin/o College Students--Bonnie Urciuoli * "Necesidades y Problemas" Immigrant Latina Vernaculars of Belonging, Coalition, and Citizenship in San Francisco, California--Kathleen Coll * "Getting out the Vote" in Los Angeles: The Mobilization of Undocumented Migrants in Electoral Politics--Monica W. Varsanyi * "Wise Up!" Undocumented Latino Youth and the Struggle for Higher Education Access--Hinda Seif * Delinquent Citizenship, National Performances: Racialization, Surveillance, and the Politics of "Worthiness" in Puerto Rican Chicago--Ana Yolanda Ramos-Zayas * Transforming Citizenship: Membership, Strategies of Containment, and the Public Sphere in Latino Communities--Raymond Rocco " Contributor Bio:  Oboler, Suzanne Suzanne Oboler is Associate Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago and founding Editor of the international academic journal Latino Studies. Her publications include: Ethnic Labels, Latino Lives: Identity and the Politics of Representation in theUnited States (University of Minnesota Press, 1995); Neither Enemies nor Friends: Latinos, Blacks, Afro-Latinos (co-edited with Anani Dzidzienyo, Palgrave Press, 2005), and numerous book chapters and articles documenting the experience of Latino/as in the United States. Deena J. Gonzalez teaches at Loyola Marymount University where she is Professor and Chair of the Department of Chicana/o Studies. An historian of the nineteenth-century southwestern United States, and the first Chicana to receive a Ph. D. from Berkeley's history department, she credits her lineageand her mentors for her book, Refusing the Favor: The Spanish-Mexican Women of Santa Fe, 1820-1880 (Oxford Univ. Press, 1999) In addition, she has written numerous articles on race, colonization, representation, identity, and sexuality.