Latinos and society: culture, politics, and class / Antonia Darder and Rodolfo D. Torres -- Merging borders: the remapping of America / Edna Acosta-Belén and Carlos E. Santiago -- Encuentros y encontronazos: homeland in the politics and identity of the Cuban diaspora / María de los Angeles Torres -- Aztlán, Borinquen, and Hispanic nationalism in the United States / J. Jorge Klor de Alva -- Chicano history: transcending cultural models / Gilbert González and Raúl Fernández -- Mapping the Spanish language along a multiethnic and multilingual border / Rosaura Sánchez -- The politics of biculturalism: culture and difference in the formation of Warriors from Grigostroika and The new Mestizas / Antonia Darder -- Beyond the rainbow: mapping the discourse on Puerto Ricans and "race" / Roberto P. Rodriguez-Morazzani -- Chicana artists: exploring Nepantla, el lugar de la frontera / Gloria Anzaldúa -- The shock of the new / Rubén Martinez -- Our next race question: the uneasiness between Blacks and Latinos / Jorge Klor de Alva, Earl Shorris, and Cornel West -- Chicana feminism: their political context and contemporary expressions / Denise A. Segura and Beatriz M. Pesquera -- Crazy wisdom: memories of a Cuban queer / Lourdes Arguelles -- Teatri viva!: Latino performance and the politics of AIDS in Los Angeles / David Román -- The Latin phallus / Ilán Stavans -- Rank and file: historical perspectives on Latino/a workers in the US / Zaragosa Vargas -- Latinos in a "post-industrial" disorder: politics in a changing city / Victor Valle and Rodolfo D. Torres -- What's yellow and white and has land all around it?: appropriating place in Puerto Rican Barrios / Luis Aponte-Parés / Caribbean colonial immigrants in the metropoles: a research agenda / Ramón Grosfoguel