Cohering Culture on Calle Ocho: The Pause and Flow of Latinidad
Titel:
Cohering Culture on Calle Ocho: The Pause and Flow of Latinidad
Auteur:
Price, Patricia L.
Verschenen in:
Globalizations
Paginering:
Jaargang 4 (2007) nr. 1 pagina's 81-99
Jaar:
2007-03
Inhoud:
The term latinidad invokes a pan-Latino/a solidarity which is at once intriguing and problematic. In this article, I explore latinidad as a situational coherence of place-specific social relations. In other words, latinidad is a contingent and cultural event. When culture is defined in this mutable, rather than static, fashion, the notion of situational coherence, decomposition, and recomposition becomes central. Thus culture, and latinidad as a cultural event, involves a dynamic interplay between flow and pause. This is an interplay which is mirrored at a broader level in my discussion of globalization, as well as more narrowly in the role of city streets from which the examples to illustrate the pause and flow of latinidad are drawn. Using examples from Miami, I suggest that solidarity amongst Latinos/as materializes—or fails to do so—in ways that illuminate an understanding of identity, place, and belonging.
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