Latinas and the Politics of Urban Spaces has a wealth of knowledge to offer the student and scholar of Latina issues in the United States today. By using intersectional and interdisciplinary approaches, Latinas and the Politics of Urban Spaces allows for a first-time truly comprehensive understanding of the lives of Latinas in urban areas. The authors rich application of feminist, intersectional, indigenous, and queer theories to the range of Latina experiences provides an excellent richness and depth to the study of Latinos/as in the United States in general.
Julia Marin Hellwege,University of South DakotaThis innovative collection on community organizing and social movements among Latina feminists inspires! It motivates new writing, theorizing, and organizing. The authors deepen our understanding of the multiple forms of Latina resistance by writing about Chicana environmentalism, bruja feminism, intersectional praxis, and Queer Latinas plticas. When read together, these clear, on-the-ground chapters also offer frameworks for activism for those of us committed to creating more just spaces and communities.
Gilda L. Ochoa,
Pomona CollegeIn Latinas and the Politics of Urban Spaces, Sharon A. Navarro and Lilliana Patricia Saldaa bring together diverse scholarly voices to share case studies of how Latinas occupy, reclaim, and transform political spaces in urban centers, through collectives, non-profits, neighborhood groups, and digital networks. We meet Latinas who draw upon intersectionality, queer epistemologies, feminist theory, and decolonial thinking in their political praxis to create social change in urban spaces, from Chicago to San Antonio to Puerto Rico, and digital spaces in-between. This volume brings needed recognition to the political work of urban Latinas and helps us all to imagine the work of building more just and emancipatory futures.
Susanne Beechey,
Whitman CollegeLatinas and the Politics of Urban Spaces
This book illuminates the ways in which Chicanas, Puerto Rican women, and other Latinas organize and lead social movements, either on the ground or digitally, in major cities of the continental United States and Puerto Rico. It shows how they challenge racism, sexism, homophobia, and anti-immigrant policies through their political praxis and spiritual activism. Drawing from a range of disciplines and perspectives, academic and activist authors offer unique insights into environmental justice, peace and conflict resolution, womens rights, LGBTQ coalition-building, and moreall through a distinctive Latina lens. Designed for use in a wide range of college courses, this book is also aimed at practitioners, community organizers, and grassroots leaders.
Sharon A. Navarro is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Texas at San Antonio and the author most recently of Race, Gender, Sexuality, and the Politics of the American Judiciary (2018), Latinas in American Politics (2016), and Latino Urban Agency (2013).
Lilliana Patricia Saldaa is an Associate Professor of Mexican American Studies (MAS) at UTSA and co-director of the UTSA MAS Teachers Academy. She has published in various edited volumes and in nationally recognized journals, including Latinos & Education, Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society, and Association of Mexican American Educators Journal.
Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in Politics and Policy
In collaboration with the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Social Sciences at Duke University
Series Editors: Kerry L. Haynie and Paula D. McClain
This series is devoted to publishing studies that examine and explain the dramatic transformations in race, ethnicity, and gender politics over the past decade. We welcome work that highlights and analyzes the ways that race, ethnicity, and gender and especially, their various intersections interact to shape political institutions, individual attitudes and behaviors, social norms, and the policy-making process. Books in the series will include original scholarly research, core textbooks, supplementary topical books, and reference works.
Titles in the Series
Black Politics in Transition
Immigration, Suburbanization, and Gentrification
Candis Watts Smith and Christina M. Greer
Latinas and the Politics of Urban Spaces
Edited by Sharon A. Navarro and Lilliana Patricia Saldaa
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Navarro, Sharon Ann, editor. |
Saldaa, Lilliana Patricia, editor.
Title: Latinas and the politics of urban spaces / edited by Sharon A. Navarro and Lilliana Patricia Saldaa.
Description: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021. |
Series: Race, ethnicity, and gender in politics and policy | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Identifiers: LCCN 2020032567 (print) |
LCCN 2020032568 (ebook) | ISBN 9780367652623 (hardback) |
ISBN 9780367432058 (paperback) | ISBN 9781003128649 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Women in community organizationUnited States. | Hispanic American womenPolitical activity. | Community development, UrbanUnited States. | Urban policy United States. | Social changeUnited States.
Classification: LCC HQ1421 .L355 2021 (print) |
LCC HQ1421 (ebook) | DDC 305.48/868073dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020032567
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020032568
ISBN: 9780367652623 (hbk)
ISBN: 9780367432058 (pbk)
ISBN: 9781003128649 (ebk)
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Sara DeTurk, PhD, is a Professor of Communication at the University of Texas at San Antonio. Her areas of specialization are intercultural communication, intergroup dialogue, social justice activist alliances, critical pedagogy, and training/group facilitation. She has published in journals such as Communication Quarterly, Communication Education, the Howard Journal of Communications, and the Journal of Intergroup Relations. She is also the author of Activism, Alliance Building, and the Esperanza Peace and Justice Center (Lexington Books).
