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Introduction / Mary Romero and Michelle Habell-Pallʹan
Media/culture
Talking back : Spanish media and U.S. Latinidad / Arlene Dávila
Barbie's hair : selling out Puerto Rican identity in the global market / Frances Negrón-Muntaner
Buena Vista Social Club : the racial politics of nostalgia / Tanya Katerí Hernández
"Lemme stay, I want to watch" : ambivalence in Borderlands cinema / Luz Calvo
Music
Encrucijadas : Rub'en Blades at the transnational crossroads / Ana Patricia Rodríguez
"The sun never sets on MTV" : Tijuana NO! and the border of music video / Josh Kun
Bidi Bidi Bom Bom : Selena and Tejano music in the making of Tejas / Deborah R. Vargas
Hip hop and New York Puerto Ricans / Raquel Rivera
Theater and art
Paul Simon's The Capeman : the staging of Puerto Rican national identity as spectacle and commodity on Broadway / Alberto Sandoval-Sánchez
Gender bending in Latino theater : Johnny Diego, The His-panic Zone, and Deporting the Divas by Guillermo Reyes / Melissa A. Fitch
"Don't call us Hispanic" : popular Latino theater in Vancouver / Michelle Habell-Pallán
Decidedly "Mexican" and "American" Semi[er]otic transference : Frida Kahlo in the eyes of Gibert Hernandez / William A. Nericcio
Performing multiple identities : Guillermo Gómez-Peña and his "dangerous border crossings" / Juan Velasco
Sports
Learning America's other game: baseball, race, and the study of Latinos / Adrian Burgos, Jr.
Fútbol nation : U.S. Latinos and the goal of a homeland / Christopher A. Shinn
Boxing and masculinity : the history and (her) story of Oscar de la Hoya / Gregory Rodriguez.
Media/culture
Talking back : Spanish media and U.S. Latinidad / Arlene Dávila
Barbie's hair : selling out Puerto Rican identity in the global market / Frances Negrón-Muntaner
Buena Vista Social Club : the racial politics of nostalgia / Tanya Katerí Hernández
"Lemme stay, I want to watch" : ambivalence in Borderlands cinema / Luz Calvo
Music
Encrucijadas : Rub'en Blades at the transnational crossroads / Ana Patricia Rodríguez
"The sun never sets on MTV" : Tijuana NO! and the border of music video / Josh Kun
Bidi Bidi Bom Bom : Selena and Tejano music in the making of Tejas / Deborah R. Vargas
Hip hop and New York Puerto Ricans / Raquel Rivera
Theater and art
Paul Simon's The Capeman : the staging of Puerto Rican national identity as spectacle and commodity on Broadway / Alberto Sandoval-Sánchez
Gender bending in Latino theater : Johnny Diego, The His-panic Zone, and Deporting the Divas by Guillermo Reyes / Melissa A. Fitch
"Don't call us Hispanic" : popular Latino theater in Vancouver / Michelle Habell-Pallán
Decidedly "Mexican" and "American" Semi[er]otic transference : Frida Kahlo in the eyes of Gibert Hernandez / William A. Nericcio
Performing multiple identities : Guillermo Gómez-Peña and his "dangerous border crossings" / Juan Velasco
Sports
Learning America's other game: baseball, race, and the study of Latinos / Adrian Burgos, Jr.
Fútbol nation : U.S. Latinos and the goal of a homeland / Christopher A. Shinn
Boxing and masculinity : the history and (her) story of Oscar de la Hoya / Gregory Rodriguez.