The Gendered Face of Latinidad

Global Circulation of Hybridity

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ID23600577
AuthorsA N Valdivia (0000-0002-3187-3504, corresponding author)
Year2020
Pages53-67
Publication date2020-12-31
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeCHAPTER
VenueCircuits of Visibility (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherNew York University Press (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.18574/nyu/9780814737309.003.0003
OpenAlexW2496735988
ISBN9780814737309
LanguageEN
Citations received6

This chapter examines the gendered face of Latinidad as it is transported, manipulated, and articulated by popular media networks under the contemporary conditions of globality. Latinidad, the process of being, becoming, and/or performing belonging within a Latina/o diaspora, challenges many popular and academic categories of ethnicity, location, and culture. As a cultural and conceptual framework, Latinidad enables a more nuanced reading of the disjuncture between the lived realities and commodified constructions of hybridity. The global presence and mobility of the Latina/o population has led to significant reconfiguration of the U.S. national imaginary with regard to race, gender, ethnicity, and sexuality. In particular, the heterogeneity of the Latina/o population has unsettled a deeply entrenched black and white racial system which is embedded in various types of institutional and social discourses. Indeed, the transnational lives and cultural hybridity of Latina/os and Latinidad exceed national boundaries and disrupt conventional categorizations of race.

Commodification · Diaspora · Ethnic group · Face (sociological concept) · Globality · Globalization · Hybridity · Political science · Population · Social science · Sociology · The Imaginary · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Latin American and Latino Studies · Psychology

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