Nancy Raquel Mirabal is associate professor for the Raza Studies Department at San Francisco State University. Agustin La—Montes is assistant professor of sociology at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

This thoughtful and exciting collection of essays provides a terrific place to explore the multiplicities and complexities of Latina/o Studies. Through sharp, insightful analysis, the essays actively destabilize even as they help to redefine our understandings of critical issues in Latinidades including the workings of silence, the politics of possibility, and the historical geographies of location and self, Reflecting impressive intellectual dexterity, they are able to capture variability and the ever-changing cartographies of this field while effectively situating these technologies of knowledge historically. This volume captures the best of the state-of-the field today.

• Part 1 Historical FuturesChapter 2 Latin, Latino, American: Split States and the Global ImaginaryChapter 3 Reading Violence, Making Chicana SubjectivitiesChapter 4 Becoming a Man in Yndias: The Mediations of Catalina De Erauso, The Lieutenant NunChapter 5 Afro-Latinas: Bridging Blackness and LatinidadChapter 6 Technologies: Transculturations of Race, Gender, and Ethnicity in Arturo A. Schomburg's Masonic WritingsPart 7 GlobalityChapter 8 Transfeminismos en el mundo zurdo: Trajectories of U.S. Third World FeminismsChapter 9 Central American Diasporas: Transnational Gangs and the Transformation of Latina/o Identity in the United StatesChapter 10 The Best of Care: Latinas and the Discourse of CareChapter 11 Segmentation, Migration, and Reciprocities: Cultural Policy and the Growth of Spanish-language Media in the USChapter 12 Transmigrant Identities: The Closet and Other Tales by Colombian Immigrants in New YorkChapter 13 "Ochero.com": Circimscribing Transnational Spiritualism Through the Aesthetics of Internet BotanicasChapter 14 The Salsa Dancing Body On and Off Stage: A Locus of Agency and TransculturationPart 15 Writing SelfChapter 16 An AIDS Testimonial: It's a Broken Record: Ese disco se rayóChapter 17 Guayaquileña (in)documentada: One Way Ticket to My Diaspora(s): A TestimonioChapter 18 Accent on José: Technological Choice and the Spanish Option in Post 911 AmericaChapter 19 A Bridge to Brown: The Politics of Latina ReadingChapter 20 Mambo No. 5: Montage of the Other Woman