"The New Latino Studies Reader is a sorely needed introductory text that integrates analyses of race, class, and color with gender, sexuality, and politics. Almaguer and Gutiérrez offer more than an interdisciplinary text; they integrate historical, social scientific and cultural studies approaches, which is rarely done in introductory readers."--Patricia Zavella, Professor and Chair of the Latin American and Latino Studies Department at UC Santa Cruz and author of I'm Neither Here nor There: Mexicans' Quotidian Struggles with Migration and Poverty

"Two of the leading scholars in the field forged this reader in the teaching trenches. This collection represents the perfect balance between cutting-edge scholarship and touchstone essays. It is sure to satisfy a range of readers, from a student enrolled in an introductory course to the scholar who wishes to deepen their expertise in Latina/o Studies."--Natalia Molina, author of How Race Is Made in America: Immigration, Citizenship, and the Historical Power of Racial Scripts

"The New Latino Studies Reader offers a fresh, invigorating account of the making of Latinidad. It provides a complex, rich historical account of the various national-origin groups that comprise Latinas/os, highlighting the vast differences between these groups while subtly urging us to imagine the rich potentiality of becoming a Latina/o community. The reader brings together the most innovative scholarship being generated within history and the social sciences and is surely to become a standard within Latina/o studies courses." -- Raúl Coronado, author of A World Not to Come: A History of Latino Writing and Print Culture and inaugural President of the Latina/o Studies Association