Global Latin/O Americas Series
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Global Latin/o Americas series Frederick Luis Aldama and Lourdes Torres , Series Editors This new series from The Ohio State University Press focuses on the Latino experience in its totality as set within a global dimension. OSUP and the series editors are committed to building scholarship that showcases the variety and vitality of the presence and significant influence of Latinos in the shaping of the culture, history, politics and policies, and language of the Americas—and beyond. The series will publish short and midsized (35,000–85,000 word) single- authored and edited books intended to bring different analytical approaches to bear on the exploration of all facets of the Latino/a experience within a global dimension. We welcome scholarship regarding the arts, literature, philosophy, popular culture, history, politics, law, and language studies, among others. The series editorial board comes from a range of disciplines and universities, ensuring that books in the series will draw from scholars from around the world. Editorial Advisory Board: About the Series Editors: Frederick Luis Aldama is Arts & Humanities Dr. Jorge Duany is the Director of the Cuban Research Institute and Distinguished Professor of English, Spanish & professor of anthropology at Florida International University. He is Portuguese as well as University Distinguished author recently of Blurred Borders: Transnational Migration between Scholar at the Ohio State University. He is the Hispanic Caribbean and the United States and La nación en vaivén: new series from the ohio state university press university state ohio the from series new the editor and author of 21 books, including Identidad, migración y cultura popular en Puerto Rico. the recently published The Cinema of Robert Rodriguez. Peter Garcia is Professor of Chicano/a Studies at Cal State Northridge and author of Decolonizing Enchantment: Lyricism, Ritual, and Echoes of Nuevo Mexicano Popular Music and the co-edited the Encyclopedia of Lourdes Torres is Vincent de Paul Professor of Latino Popular Culture. Latin American and Latino Studies at DePaul University. She is the author of Puerto Rican Alexandro José Gradilla is Associate Professor and chair of Chicana Discourse: A Sociolinguistic Study of a New and Chicano Studies at California State Fullerton and author of the York Suburb (1997) and co-editor of Third World forthcoming Why Culture? The Problematic and Strategic Uses of Women and the Politics of Feminism (1991), and Chicano/Mexicano Culture. Tortilleras: Hispanic and the Latina Lesbian Expression (2003). She is editor of the Latino Elaine Levine is a researcher at the National Autonomous University Studies journal. of Mexico's Center for Research on North America, Mexico City, and Professor of the Graduate Program in Political and Social Sciences. She is author and editor of several books, including Los nuevos pobres de Estados Unidos: los hispanos and La migración y los latinos en Estados Unidos: visiones y conexiones. For more information about the series or submitting Gabriella Sanchez is Assistant Professor of sociology at Catholic a proposal contact: University of America. She is author of Human Smuggling and Border Kristen Elias Rowley, OSU Press Editor-in-Chief Crossings. ([email protected]) Frederick Luis Aldama ([email protected]) Lourdes Torres ([email protected]) Ninna Nyberg Sørensen is senior researcher at the Danish Institute for International Studies as well as editor and author of several books, including Central American Migration, Remittances and Transnational the ohio state university press Development and The Migration Industry and the Commercialization of International Migration. www.ohiostatepress.org | 800.621.2736 .