María de los Angeles Torres

Placing Latino Civic Engagement

This study presents survey data assessing the civic and place engagement of Latino residents of three inner-ring Latino neighborhoods in Phoenix, Miami, and Chicago. We utilize a Latino/a Studies-inspired conceptual framework to assess the civic and place engagement of Latinos on its own terms, rather than as in-transition toward a mainstream or as a variation of Black American patterns of engagement. Although we find levels of sociability and trust to be uniformly high in our study neighborhoods, these social capital building blocks do not necessarily translate into civic and place engagement. Rather, we find civic and place engagement to be high in Pilsen, low in Little Havana, and mixed in Garfield. We conclude by suggesting that Latino/a civic and place engagement is predicated on the full cultural citizenship of Latinos; in addition, we suggest that Latino cultural citizenship is a notion that must become more attentive to place-based differences.

By heart/de memoria : Cuban women's journeys in and out of exile

Preface 1. Introduction Maria de los Angeles Torres 2. El Bote Achy Obejas 3. Reflections Liz Balmaseda 4. Donde los Fantasmas Bailan Guaguanco: Where Ghosts Dance el Guaguanco Maria de los Angeles Torres 5. Not the Golden Age Nereida Garcia-Ferraz 6. From This Side of the Fishtank Teresa de Jesus Fernandez 7. Through Other Looking Glasses Josefina de Diego 8. La Salida: The Departure Mirta Ojito 9. The Recurring Dream Carmen Diaz 10. Only Fragments of Memory Raquel Mendieta Costa 11. Words Without Borders Madelin Camara 12. Postwar Memories Tania Bruguera About the Contributors

Ciudades globales e inmigrantes: un estudio comparado sobre Chicago y Madrid

Este libro es el resultado de un proyecto de investigacion desarrollado entre 2011 y 2012 en el marco de los acuerdos entre la Universidad Autonoma de Madrid y el Banco Santander. En el libro se analizan distintos aspectos de la inmigracion desde la perspectiva de las grandes ciudades, tanto espanolas como norteamericanas, con especial atencion a las ciudades de Madrid y Chicago. http://dx.doi.org/10.15366/ciudades.inm2013