Resisting Categories: Latin American and/or Latino?

✍ Scribed by Mari Carmen Ramírez;Tomás Ybarra-Frausto;María C. Gaztambide;Héctor Olea;Melina Kervandjian

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This first volume of the Critical Documents of 20th-Century Latin American and Latino Art series published by the International Center for the Arts of the Americas at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, presents 168 crucial texts written by influential artists, critics, curators, journalists, and intellectuals whose writings shed light on questions relating to what it means to be "Latin American" and/or "Latino."

Reinforced within a critical framework, the documents address converging issues, including: the construct of "Latin-ness" itself; the persistent longing for a continental identity; notions of Pan–Latin Americanism; the emergence of collections and exhibitions devoted specifically to "Latin American" or "Latino" art; and multicultural critiques of Latin American and Latino essentialism. The selected documents, many of which have never before been published in English, span from the late fifteenth century to the present day. They encompass key protagonists of this...