Rocío Aranda-Alvarado is an art historian and curator focused on contemporary US Latinx and modern and contemporary Latin American, Caribbean, and African American art. She is Senior Program Officer for arts and culture at the Ford Foundation Center for Social Justice.  Deborah Cullen-Morales is an art historian and curator focused on modern and contemporary Latinx, Caribbean, and African American art. She is Program Officer for arts and culture at the Mellon Foundation, the nation’s largest funder in the arts, culture, and humanities.

• ContentsIntroduction FRAMING LATINX ARTThe Latino Presence in American ArtE. Carmen Ramos, 2012Synopsis of the Symposium on the Hispanic American Aesthetic: Origins, Manifestations, and SignificanceJacinto Quirarte, 1983Wonder Bread and Spanglish ArtLuis Camnitzer, 1990Zero Identity: Third FragmentsPapo Colo, 1991Border Culture: The Multicultural ParadigmGuillermo Gómez-Peña, 1990Between Two Waters: Image and Identity in Latino-American ArtMari Carmen Ramírez, 1991The Other History of Intercultural PerformanceCoco Fusco, 1995MEXICAN AMERICAN AND CHICANO/A/X PERSPECTIVES“Portraying Ourselves”: Contemporary Chicana ArtistsShifra M. Goldman, 1988Indigenismo: The Call to UnityAmalia Mesa-Bains, 1989Twentieth-Century Latin American and Latinx Art in the Midwestern United States: Chronological OverviewOlga U. Herrera, 2008The Con Safo Art Group (1968–76), San Antonio, TexasRuben C. Cordova, 2022From Populist to Pop: The Graphic Arts of the Chicano and Puerto Rican MovementsHenry C. Estrada, 1999Birth of a Movement: Thirty Years in the Making of a Site of Public MemoryJudith F. Baca, 2001La Raza Cósmica: An Investigation into the Space of Chicana/o MuralismSandra de la Loza, 2011¡Tenemos Asco! An Oral History of the Chicano Art GroupSean Carrillo, Harry Gamboa Jr., Willie Herrón, Glugio “Gronk” Nicandro,Humberto Sandoval, Joey Terrill, and Patssi Valdez, 2022Axis Mundo: Constellations and ConnectionsC. Ondine Chavoya and David Evans Frantz, 2017The Orphans of ModernismChon A. Noriega, 2008PUERTO RICAN AND NUYORICAN HISTORIESPuerto Rican Artists in the USA: Solidarity, Resistance, IdentitySusana Torruella Leval, 1998Cayman and MoCHA: When the Formula WorkedTaína Caragol, 2022Culture and the PeopleRalph Ortiz (Raphael Montañez Ortiz), 1971The Activist Legacy of Puerto Rican Artists in New York and The Art Heritage of Puerto RicoYasmin Ramirez, 2007The Puerto Rican Equation: Art as Plebiscite for Survival, Struggle, and Sovereignty Juan Sánchez, 1998The Possible Role for the Caribbean Artist in an Urban SettingJorge Soto, 1980CUBAN AMERICAN VOICESDialectics of IsolationAna Mendieta, 1980Milk of Amnesia/Leche de AmnesiaCarmelita Tropicana, 1995Double Invisibility: Cuban Performance and the US Context Elvis Fuentes, 2008Liminal PlacesTeresita Fernández, 2023DOMINICAN YORK VIEWPOINTSThe Island within the Island: Remapping Dominican YorkTatiana Reinoza, 2018A Complicated Affair: Performing Life on the Margin between Art and PoliticsNicolás Dumit Estévez, 2011NEW DIRECTIONS“Does That Come with a Hyphen? A Space?” The Question of Central American–Americans in Latino Art and PedagogyKency Cornejo, 2015Afro-Latinx at NYU: How Multiple Facets of Black Latinidad Are Claiming Space. Yelaine Rodriguez, 2021Index

Rocío Aranda-Alvarado is an art historian and curator focused on contemporary US Latinx and modern and contemporary Latin American, Caribbean, and African American art. She is Senior Program Officer for arts and culture at the Ford Foundation Center for Social Justice.  Deborah Cullen-Morales is an art historian and curator focused on modern and contemporary Latinx, Caribbean, and African American art. She is Program Officer for arts and culture at the Mellon Foundation, the nation’s largest funder in the arts, culture, and humanities.

• ContentsIntroduction FRAMING LATINX ARTThe Latino Presence in American ArtE. Carmen Ramos, 2012Synopsis of the Symposium on the Hispanic American Aesthetic: Origins, Manifestations, and SignificanceJacinto Quirarte, 1983Wonder Bread and Spanglish ArtLuis Camnitzer, 1990Zero Identity: Third FragmentsPapo Colo, 1991Border Culture: The Multicultural ParadigmGuillermo Gómez-Peña, 1990Between Two Waters: Image and Identity in Latino-American ArtMari Carmen Ramírez, 1991The Other History of Intercultural PerformanceCoco Fusco, 1995MEXICAN AMERICAN AND CHICANO/A/X PERSPECTIVES“Portraying Ourselves”: Contemporary Chicana ArtistsShifra M. Goldman, 1988Indigenismo: The Call to UnityAmalia Mesa-Bains, 1989Twentieth-Century Latin American and Latinx Art in the Midwestern United States: Chronological OverviewOlga U. Herrera, 2008The Con Safo Art Group (1968–76), San Antonio, TexasRuben C. Cordova, 2022From Populist to Pop: The Graphic Arts of the Chicano and Puerto Rican MovementsHenry C. Estrada, 1999Birth of a Movement: Thirty Years in the Making of a Site of Public MemoryJudith F. Baca, 2001La Raza Cósmica: An Investigation into the Space of Chicana/o MuralismSandra de la Loza, 2011¡Tenemos Asco! An Oral History of the Chicano Art GroupSean Carrillo, Harry Gamboa Jr., Willie Herrón, Glugio “Gronk” Nicandro,Humberto Sandoval, Joey Terrill, and Patssi Valdez, 2022Axis Mundo: Constellations and ConnectionsC. Ondine Chavoya and David Evans Frantz, 2017The Orphans of ModernismChon A. Noriega, 2008PUERTO RICAN AND NUYORICAN HISTORIESPuerto Rican Artists in the USA: Solidarity, Resistance, IdentitySusana Torruella Leval, 1998Cayman and MoCHA: When the Formula WorkedTaína Caragol, 2022Culture and the PeopleRalph Ortiz (Raphael Montañez Ortiz), 1971The Activist Legacy of Puerto Rican Artists in New York and The Art Heritage of Puerto RicoYasmin Ramirez, 2007The Puerto Rican Equation: Art as Plebiscite for Survival, Struggle, and Sovereignty Juan Sánchez, 1998The Possible Role for the Caribbean Artist in an Urban SettingJorge Soto, 1980CUBAN AMERICAN VOICESDialectics of IsolationAna Mendieta, 1980Milk of Amnesia/Leche de AmnesiaCarmelita Tropicana, 1995Double Invisibility: Cuban Performance and the US Context Elvis Fuentes, 2008Liminal PlacesTeresita Fernández, 2023DOMINICAN YORK VIEWPOINTSThe Island within the Island: Remapping Dominican YorkTatiana Reinoza, 2018A Complicated Affair: Performing Life on the Margin between Art and PoliticsNicolás Dumit Estévez, 2011NEW DIRECTIONS“Does That Come with a Hyphen? A Space?” The Question of Central American–Americans in Latino Art and PedagogyKency Cornejo, 2015Afro-Latinx at NYU: How Multiple Facets of Black Latinidad Are Claiming Space. Yelaine Rodriguez, 2021Index