TY - GEN AU - Milian,Claudia TI - Latining America : Black-Brown Passages and the Coloring of Latino/a Studies SN - j.ctt46n76g PY - 2013///0102 CY - Athens PB - University of Georgia Press KW - Sociology KW - social science KW - minority studies KW - discrimination KW - race relations KW - literary history KW - literary criticism KW - cultural pluralism KW - hispanic american studies KW - african american studies KW - race KW - ethnicity KW - atlantic world KW - Central America KW - Chicano KW - Latin KW - Latin America KW - Mexico KW - Race and ethnicity in the United States Census KW - United States N1 - Open Access N2 - Claudia Milian proposes that the economies of blackness, brownness, and dark brownness summon a new grammar for Latino/a studies that she names "Latinities." Milian argues that this ensnared economy of meaning startles the typical reading practices deployed for brown Latino/a embodiment. Latining America keeps company with and challenges existent models of Latinidad, demanding a distinct paradigm that puts into question what is understood as Latino and Latina today. Milian conceptually considers how underexplored "Latin" participants-the southern, the black, the dark brown, the Central American-have ushered in a new world of "Latined" signification from the 1920s to the present UR - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/30564/1/645345.pdf UR - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/30564/1/645345.pdf UR - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/33586 ER -