AMCULT213 PROFESSORS, SCHOLARS, AND AUTHORS Flashcards

Who is Anthony P. Mora

Author of Border Dilemmas: Racial and National Uncertainties in New Mexico, 1848-1912. Currently writing Zorro and the Curse of History: A Swashbuckling History of Mexican Belonging in the United States. — (Is Mexican)

Who is Gustavo Pérez Firmat?

Writer of Life on the Hyphen: The Cuban-American Way — (Is Cuban)

Who is Juan González?

Author of Harvest of Empire — (Is Puerto Rican)

Who is Richard Rodriguez

Mexican American who wrote Hunger of Memory and Brown: The Last Discovery of America

Who is Ilan Stavans?

Author of The Hispanic Condition

Who is Cecilia J. Menjivar

Writer of the Illegality Keywords Essay in Keywords for Latina/o Studies. — (Is Salvadoran American)

Who is Frederick Luis Aldama?

Author of the Hyphen Keyword Essay in Keywords for Latina/o Studies and Latinx Comic Book Storytelling. — (Self-Identifying, Guatemalan-Irish-Mexican-American)

Who is Catherine S. Ramirez

Author of the Assimilation Keyword Essay in Keywords for Latina/o Studies, Assimilation: An Alternative History in 2020, and Women in the Zoot Suit. — (Is Dominican American) — (Is Chicana)

Who is Luciana Chamorro?

Author of Afterlives of Revolution: Authoritarian Populism and Political Passions in Post-Revolutionary Nicaragua.

Who is Silvia Pedraza?

Author of Cuba’s Refugees: Manifold Migrations and Political Disaffection in Cuba's Revolution and Exodus — (Is Cuban)

Who is Lawrence La-Fountain Stokes

Author of Queer Ricans: Cultures and Sexualities in the Diaspora and co-editor of Keywords for Latina/o Studies. — (Is Puerto Rican)

Who is Junot Diaz?

Author and Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2008 for The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. — (Is Dominican American)

Who Is Ginetta E. B. Candelario?

Author of Black Behind the Ears: Dominican Racial Identity from Museums to Beauty Shops (2007) and the Transnationalism Keyword Essay from Keywords for Latina/o Studies. — (Is Dominican American)

Who is Loida Maritza Pérez?

Author of Geographies of Home (1999)

Who is Julia Alvarez

Author of How the García Girls Lost Their Accents (1991 and In the Time of the Butterflies (1994)

Who is Nelly Roasrio?

Author of Song of the Water Saints (2002)

Who is Angie Cruz?

Author of Soledad (2001), Let It Rain Coffee (2005), Dominicana (2019), and How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water (2022)

Who is Sheila Contreras

Author of Blood Lines: Myth, Indigenism, and Chicana/o Literature and the Chicana, Chicano, Chican@, Chicanx Keyword Essay from Keywords for Latina/o Studies — (Is Mexican-American or Chicana)

Who is Patrick Mullen-Coyoy?

Author of Chapingolandia — (Guatemalan-Irish)

Who is Frances R. Aparicio?

Author of Listening to Salsa: Gender, Latin Popular Music, and Puerto Rican Cultures (1998), Negotiating Latinidad: Intralatina/o Lives in Chicago (2019), and the Latinidad/es Keyword Essay in Keywords for Latina/o Studies — (Is Puerto Rican)

Who is William D. Lopez

Author of Separated and Raiding the Heartland

Who is Alan Palaez Lopez

Author of Intergalactic Travels: poems from a fugitive alien (The Operating System, 2020) and to love and mourn in the age of displacement (Nomadic Press, 2020) — (Is Afroindigenous)

Who is Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof?

Author of A Tale of Two Cities: Santo Domingo and New York after 1950 —

Who is Juana María Rodríguez?

Author of Queer Latinidad: Identity Practices, Discursive Spaces (2003), Sexual Futures, Queer Gestures, and Other Latina Longings (2014), P*ta Life: Seeing Latinas, Working Sex (2023), and the Latino, Latina, Latin@ Keyword Essay from Keywords for Latina/o Studies — (Is Cuban American)

Who is Nicholas De Genova

Author of the Citizenship Keyword Essay from Keywords for Latina/o Studies — (Not Latinx)