| Contents |
Foreword / Arlene M. D̐uavila -- Introduction / Ana Aparicio, Andrea Bolivar, Alex E. Ch̐uavez, Sherina Feliciano-Santos, Santiago Ivan Guerra, Gina M. P̐uerez, Jonathan Rosa, Gilberto Rosas, Aimee Villarreal, and Patricia Zavella -- "While you are struggling, you are healing"; Latinas enact poder through the movement for reproductive justice / Patricia Zavella -- Ta̐uino and Afro-Ta̐uino narrative, performance, and resistencia in Puerto Rico and the United States / Sherina Feliciano-Santos -- The urban sonorous and collective witness in the city of neighborhoods / Alex E. Ch̐uavez -- Diasporic signs; Puerto Rican place-making, Latinx artivism, and the aesthetics of resistance / Jonathan Rosa and David Flores -- Race, trash talk, and dissent in contemporary suburbia / Ana Aparicio -- Trans Latina fantas̐uias; creating trans Latina selves, families, and futures / Andrea Bolivar -- The drug war, drug reform, and the Latinx community: an ethnographic perspective from the Texas-Mexico border and Colorado / Santiago Ivan Guerra -- Becoming a sanctuary people : Latina/o practices of accompaniment in Northeast Ohio / Gina M. P̐uerez -- Witnessing in brown: on making dead to let live / Gilberto Rosas -- Anthropolocura as homeplace ethnography / Aimee Villareal -- Afterword Uncertain future(s): Latinidad, anthropology, institutions / Vanessa D̐uiaz, Sergio Lemus, and Ryan Mann-Hamilton. |
| Abstract |
"Ethnographers increasingly train with community members to work as insider-scholars, collaborate on the design and implementation of research, and employ a variety of techniques to develop analyses that may lead to significant policy changes. The contributors in Ethnographic Refusals, Unruly Latinidades highlight the value of 'radical inclusion' in their research and call for a critical self-reflexivity that marshalls the power of bearing witness to move from rhetoric to praxis in support of these methodologies within anthropological perspectives. The essays in this collection do not offer simple solutions to histories of colonialism, patriarchy, and misogyny through which gender binaries and racial hierarches have been imposed and reproduced, but rather provide a crucial opportunity for reflection on and continued reimagination of the contours of Latinidad. These scholars deploy Latinx strategically as part of ongoing dialogues, understanding that their terminologies are inherently imprecise, contested, and constantly shifting. Each chapter explores how Latinx ethnographers and interlocutors work together in contexts of refusal--ever mindful of how power shapes these encounters and the analyses that emerge from them--as well as the extraordinary possibilities offered by ethnography and its role in ongoing social transformation" -- Back cover. |
