The Making of Latin London

The Making of Latin London

Author: Patria Roman-Velazquez

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2017-07-05

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 1351886193

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This book focuses on how Latin American people and cultural practices have moved from one continent to another, and specifically to London. How do Latin Americans experience such a process and what part do different people play in the re-making of Latin identities in the neighbourhoods, parks, bars and dance clubs of London? Through a critical engagement with theories of globalization, the geography of power, cultural identity and the transformation of places, the book explores how the formation of Latin identities is directly related to wider social, economic and political processes. Drawing on the voices of migrant peoples, community activists, shop owners, sports organizers, club owners, dancers, dance teachers, musicians and disc jockeys, the book argues that the micro movements of people - through a shopping mall or across a dance floor in a club - are directly connected to global processes involving the regulated movement of citizens, sounds and images across national boundaries and through cities.


Situating Salsa

Situating Salsa

Author: Lise Waxer

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-11-12

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 1135725411

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Situating Salsa offers the first comprehensive consideration of salsa music and its social impact, in its multiple transnational contexts.


Latin Americans in London

Latin Americans in London

Author: F. Daniel Morales Hernández

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2023-10-23

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 3110988208

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This book explores the life stories of Latin American immigrants living in London. Through a critical analysis of their discourses in various contexts, this book provides insights into representations of migration and processes of exclusion among co-ethnics. Ideologies of language, neoliberalism and social class intersect with such constructs as gender, race and ethnicity as the participants categorise other Latin Americans and themselves in the social spaces that they have cohabitated. It is a timely work for those interested in the history of Latin America, its people in diaspora, social inequality and the interrelationship between language and identity in a context of mobility.


Narratives of Migration, Relocation and Belonging

Narratives of Migration, Relocation and Belonging

Author: Patria Román-Velázquez

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2020-08-13

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13: 3030534448

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This book gives voice to the diverse diasporic Latin American communities living in the UK by exploring first and onward migration of Latin Americans to Europe, with a specific reference to London. The authors discuss how networks of solidarity and local struggles are played out, enacted, negotiated and experienced in different spatial spheres, whether this be migration routes into London, work spaces, diasporic media and urban places. Each of these spaces are explored in separate chapters to argue that transnational networks of solidarity and local struggles are facilitating renewed sense of belongingness and claims to the city. In this context we witness manifestations of British Latinidad that invoke new forms of belongingness beyond and against old colonial powers.


Subjectivity at Latin America's Urban Margins

Subjectivity at Latin America's Urban Margins

Author: Moisés Kopper

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2024-10-01

Total Pages: 319

ISBN-13: 1805396978

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Extreme inequalities, uneven planning, and unruly environments have long shaped individual and collective subjectivities at Latin America’s urban margins. Yet these same margins have frequently given rise to new forms of community organization, cultural practice, and social mobilization. This volumeframes the urban margins as complex and multi-layered sites where ongoing translocal histories of exploitation and marginalization meet distinctly local and interpersonal forms of sociability, subjective belonging, and political agency. Through nuanced ethnographic work and cross-disciplinary theoretical insights, Subjectivity at Latin America’s Urban Margins unpacks this complexity, investigating how margins are upheld, negotiated, and challenged.


Comparing Postcolonial Diasporas

Comparing Postcolonial Diasporas

Author: M. Keown

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2009-01-15

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 0230232787

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Bringing together a group of intellectuals from a number of disciplines, this collection breaks new ground within the field of postcolonial diaspora studies, moving beyond the Anglophone bias of much existing scholarship by investigating comparative links between a range of Anglophone, Francophone, Hispanic and Neerlandophone cultural contexts.


Inside the Latin@ Experience

Inside the Latin@ Experience

Author: N. Cantú

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2010-05-24

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 0230106846

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Latinos comprise the fastest growing ethnic group in the United States, and this interdisciplinary anthology gathers the scholarship of both early career and senior Latina/o scholars whose work explores the varied and unique latinidades, or Latino cultural identities, of this group.


The Routledge History of Latin American Culture

The Routledge History of Latin American Culture

Author: Carlos Manuel Salomon

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-12-22

Total Pages: 480

ISBN-13: 1317449290

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The Routledge History of Latin American Culture delves into the cultural history of Latin America from the end of the colonial period to the twentieth century, focusing on the formation of national, racial, and ethnic identity, the culture of resistance, the effects of Eurocentrism, and the process of cultural hybridity to show how the people of Latin America have participated in the making of their own history. The selections from an interdisciplinary group of scholars range widely across the geographic spectrum of the Latin American world and forms of cultural production. Exploring the means and meanings of cultural production, the essays illustrate the myriad ways in which cultural output illuminates political and social themes in Latin American history. From religion to food, from political resistance to artistic representation, this handbook showcases the work of scholars from the forefront of Latin American cultural history, creating an essential reference volume for any scholar of modern Latin America.