Frederick Aldama & Christopher Gonzalez 
Latinx Studies 
The Key Concepts

Latinx Studies: The Key Concepts is an accessible guide to the central concepts and issues that inform Latinx Studies globally. It summarizes, explains, contextualizes, and assesses key critical concepts, perspectives, developments, and debates in Latinx Studies. At once comprehensive in coverage and detailed and specific in examples analyzed, it provides over 25 key concepts to the field of Latinx Studies as shaped within historical, social, cultural, regional, and global contexts, including:

• Body

• Border Theory

• Digital Era

• Familia

• Immigration

• Intersectionality

• Language

• Latinidad/es

• Latinofuturism

• Narco Cultura

• Popular Culture

• Sports

Fully cross-referenced and complete with suggestions for further reading, Latinx Studies: The Key Concepts is an essential guide for anyone studying race, ethnicity, gender, class, education, culture, and globalism.