Introduction Contributors I. Roots, Identities, Connections 1 North - South, East - West: Topographies of Latinidad By Ilan Stavans 2 Latina/os and Race By Silvio Torres-Saillant 3 Latinx Midwest Folklore By Stacey M. Alex, Frederick Luis Aldama 4 Bridges to Cuba and Latina/Latino Studies By Ruth Behar 5 Atlantic Continuities in Tomás Rivera and Rudolfo Anaya By Sarah Quesada II. Melting the Pot 6 The Chicano Movement in the New America By Mario T. Garcia 7 Women, Gender, and Sexuality in Latina/o Culture By Alicia Arrizón 8 Latino Urbanism and the Gentrifying City By Erualdo R. González III. Between Faith and Reason 9 Latino Philosophy By Susana Nuccetelli 10 Latina/o Religious Studies Since the 1970s By Felipe Hinojosa 11 Barrio Music, Spirituality, and Social Justice in Latino Hip-Hop By Alex Nava IV. Whirling Tongues 12 Notes on Latino Philology By Ilan Stavans 13 The Bilingualisms of Latino/a Literatures By Rolando Pérez 14 Rhetoric and Affect in Bilingual Latinx Literature By Matylda Figlerowicz and Doris Sommer 15 Always in Translation: Ways of Writing in Spanish and English By Regina Galasso 16 Spanglish: Current Issues, Future Perspectives, and Linguistic Insights By Silvia Betti and Renata Enghels V. Ways of Being 17 Latinx Pop Cultural Studies Hoy! By Frederick Luis Aldama 18 Reflections on Latina/o Theatre By Debra Castillo 19 Transcolonial Gothic and Decolonial Satire in Ramón Emeterio Betances By Ivonne M. Garcia 20 A Borderlands History of Latinx Cinema By Paul A. Schroeder Rodríguez 21 Television and its Impact on Latinx Communities By Mari Castañeda 22 Latinos/as and Sports By Jorge Iber Appendix: Does Latino Literature Matter?: A Conversation Ilan Stavans and Charles Hatfield

Selling point: The first handbook on Latino Studies, bringing together 24 leading and emerging scholars to reflect on the development of this new discipline and consider future paths for research. Selling point: A self-examination on the role of Latinos in the United States, the collection includes articles on a wide range of fields, including literature, theater, pop culture, religion, linguistics, politics, and urban planning. Selling point: Illuminates how Latinos are redefining American identity, offering a new lens to understand today's controversies about immigration, the US-Mexico border, Spanglish, Latinx sexuality, and the double-consciousness of the Latino minority.

Ilan Stavans is Lewis-Sebring Professor of Humanities, Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College, publisher of Restless Books, and host of NPR's show "In Contrast." His books include On Borrowed Words (2001), Spanglish: The Making of a New American language (2003), Dictionary Days (2008), Gabriel García Márrquez: The Early Years (2010), Singer's Typewriter and Mine (2012), A Critic's Journey (2013), Quixote: The Novel and the World (2015), and The Seventh Heaven: Travels through Jewish Latin America (2019). He is general editor of The Norton Anthology of Latino Literature (2011). He has translated Jorge Luis Borges, Pablo Neruda, and Juan Rulfo into English, Emily Dickinson and Elizabeth Bishop into Spanish, and Cervantes and Shakespeare into Spanglish. His work, translated into twenty languages, has been adapted into film, radio, TV, and theater.

Selling point: The first handbook on Latino Studies, bringing together 24 leading and emerging scholars to reflect on the development of this new discipline and consider future paths for research. Selling point: A self-examination on the role of Latinos in the United States, the collection includes articles on a wide range of fields, including literature, theater, pop culture, religion, linguistics, politics, and urban planning. Selling point: Illuminates how Latinos are redefining American identity, offering a new lens to understand today's controversies about immigration, the US-Mexico border, Spanglish, Latinx sexuality, and the double-consciousness of the Latino minority.