Reimagining US Colombianidades: Transnational subjectivities, cultural expressions, and political contestations

This book focuses our attention on yet another community that has been scantily represented in Latino/a/x studies scholarship. US Colombians are no longer content to be characterized as 'the other Latinos,' and the editors of this special issue make the case that study of US Colombianidades enhances and productively troubles Latino/a/x studies. This engaging set of essays highlights the rich diversity of US Colombianidades as well as the group's similarities and differences with other Latino/a/x groups. With its innovative cultural studies and social sciences perspectives and interpretive theories, this volume offers a deep dive into issues such as how racial, gender, sexual, and socioeconomic realities shape US Colombian experience; the representation of US Colombians in popular culture; interethnic relations between Colombians and other Latina/o/xs; the political participation of Colombians in US electoral politics; Colombian transnational understandings of identity; and much more. I want to thank the editors of this special issue-Lina Rincón, Johana Londoño, Jennifer Harford Vargas, and María Elena Cepeda-for curating a set of articles that will most certainly inspire Latino/a/x studies scholars to expand our notions of Latinidades and be attentive to the ways in which a focus on US Colombianidades complicates and enriches our field.
Previously published in Latino Studies Volume 18, issue 3, September 2020

Lina Rincón is an Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of Faculty Diversity and Inclusion at Sacramento State University, USA. Her work focuses on exploring the impacts of racial structures and legal constraints on the experience and success of Latinx immigrant professionals in the higher education and in STEM careers. Johana Londoño is Associate Professor in the Department of Latin American, Caribbean, and US Latino Studies at the University at Albany, SUNY, USA. She is the author of Abstract Barrios: The Crises of Latinx Visibility in Cities (2020).

Jennifer Harford Vargas is Associate Professor of Literatures in English at Bryn Mawr College, USA. She is the author of Forms of Dictatorship: Power, Narrative, and Authoritarianism in the Latina/o Novel (2017) and co-editor of Junot Díaz and the Decolonial Imagination (2016). 

María Elena Cepeda is Professor of Latina/o Studies at Williams College, USA, where she specializes in intersectional approaches to Latinx media and popular culture, Latinx language politics, and feminist of color disability studies. 

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Lina Rincón is an Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of Faculty Diversity and Inclusion at Sacramento State University, USA. Her work focuses on exploring the impacts of racial structures and legal constraints on the experience and success of Latinx immigrant professionals in the higher education and in STEM careers.Johana Londoño is Associate Professor in the Department of Latin American, Caribbean, and US Latino Studies at the University at Albany, SUNY, USA. She is the author of Abstract Barrios: The Crises of Latinx Visibility in Cities (2020).

Jennifer Harford Vargas is Associate Professor of Literatures in English at Bryn Mawr College, USA. She is the author of Forms of Dictatorship: Power, Narrative, and Authoritarianism in the Latina/o Novel (2017) and co-editor of Junot Díaz and the Decolonial Imagination (2016).

María Elena Cepeda is Professor of Latina/o Studies at Williams College, USA, where she specializes in intersectional approaches to Latinx media and popular culture, Latinx language politics, and feminist of color disability studies.