Critical Dialogues in Latinx Studies: A Reader

**WINNER, D. Scott Palmer Prize for Best Edited Collection, given by the New England Council of Latin American Studies**

Introduces new approaches, theoretical trends, and understudied topics in Latinx Studies

This groundbreaking work offers a multidisciplinary, social-science oriented perspective on Latinx studies, including the social histories and contemporary lives of a diverse range of Latina and Latino populations. Editors Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas and Mérida M. Rúa have crafted an anthology that is unique in both form and content. The book combines previously published canonical pieces with original, cutting-edge works created for this volume. The sections of the text are arranged thematically as critical dialogues, each with a brief preface that provides context and a conceptual direction for the scholarly conversation that ensues.

The editors frame the volume around the “humanistic social sciences,” using the term to highlight the historical and social contexts under which expressive cultural forms and archival records are created.

Critical Dialogues in Latinx Studies masterfully sheds light on the diversity and complexity of the everyday lives of Latinx populations, the political economic structures that shape enduring racialization and cultural stereotyping, and the continuing efforts to carve out new lives as diasporic, transnational, global, and colonial subjects.

Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas is Professor in the programs in American Studies and Ethnicity, Race & Migration at Yale University. She is the author of Street Therapists: Race, Affect, and Neoliberal Personhood in Latino Newark and National Performances: The Politics of Class, Race, and Space in Puerto Rican Chicago and co-author of Latino Crossings: Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, and the Politics of Race and Citizenship.

Mérida M. Rúa is Professor of Latina, Latino, & Latinx Studies at Northwestern University. She is the author of A Grounded Identidad: Making New Lives in Chicago’s Puerto Rican Neighborhoods (Oxford University Press, 2012, which won Honorable Mention, the Latina/o Studies Section (LSS) Book Award, LSS-Latin American Studies Association, 2013 and Honorable Distinction, the Frank Bonilla Book Award, Puerto Rican Studies Association (PRSA), 2014), and she is coeditor of three edited volumes, including our Critical Dialogues in Latinx Studies: A Reader (2021, winner of the D. Scott Palmer Prize for Best Edited Collection, New England Council of Latin American Studies (NECLAS), 2022).