| Acknowledgments | IX |
| List of Contributors | XI |
| Introduction: Mambo Montage: The Latinization of New York City | 1 |
Part I | The Production of Latinidad: Histories, Social Movements, Cultural Struggles | 55 |
Chapter 1 | "No Country But the One We Must Fight For": The Emergence of an Antillean Nation and Community in New York City, 1860-1901 | 57 |
Chapter 2 | "The Latins from Manhattan": Confronting Race and Building Community in Jim Crow Baseball, 1906-1950 | 73 |
Chapter 3 | Latino Caribbean Diasporas in New York | 97 |
Chapter 4 | Niuyol: Urban Regime, Latino Social Movements, Ideologies of Latinidad | 119 |
Chapter 5 | Culture in the Battlefront: From Nationalist to Pan-Latino Projects | 159 |
Part II | Expressive Cultures: Narrating, Imaging, and Performing Latinidad | 183 |
Chapter 6 | Life off the Hyphen: Latino Literature and Nuyorican Traditions | 185 |
Chapter 7 | "Nothing Connects Us All But Imagined Sounds": Performing Trans-Boricua Memories, Identities, and Nationalisms Through the Death of Hector Lavoe | 207 |
Chapter 8 | Hip-Hop, Puerto Ricans, and Ethnoracial Identities in New York | 235 |
Chapter 9 | Ambiguous Identities! The Affirmation of Puertorriquenidad in the Community Murals of New York City | 263 |
Part III | Latino/a Identities and the Politics of Space and Place | 291 |
Chapter 10 | Making Loisaida: Placing Puertorriquenidad in Lower Manhattan | 293 |
Chapter 11 | The Manifold Character of Panethnicity: Latino Identities and Practices Among Dominicans in New York City | 319 |
Chapter 12 | Immigration Status and Identity: Undocumented Mexicans in New York | 337 |
Chapter 13 | Outside/In: Crossing Queer and Latino Boundaries | 363 |
Chapter 14 | Engendering and Coloring Labor Unions: Transcultural Readings of Latin American Women's Ways | 387 |
Part IV | Latinizing Cityscapes | 409 |
Chapter 15 | The Latin Side of Madison Avenue: Marketing and the Language that Makes Us "Hispanics" | 411 |
Chapter 16 | Eating in Cuban | 425 |
Chapter 17 | Taking "Class" Into Account: Dance, the Studio, and Latino Culture | 449 |
Chapter 18 | Deceptive Solidity: Public Signs, Civic Inclusion, and Language Rights in New York City (and Beyond) | 473 |