Latinas/os in New Jersey

ALDO A. LAURIA-SANTIAGO is a professor in the Departments of Latino and Caribbean Studies and History at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. He is the co-author of Rethinking the Struggle for Puerto Rican Rights. At Rutgers he directs the Center for Latin American Studies and co-coordinates the Latino Studies Research Initiative. ULLA D. BERG is an associate professor in the Departments of Latino and Caribbean Studies and Anthropology at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. She is the author of Mobile Selves: Race, Migration and Belonging Between Peru and the US. OLGA JIMENEZ de WAGENHEIM is a professor emerita in history at Rutgers University, Newark, where she taught and mentored for more than twenty years. She is the author of The Puerto Ricans: A Documentary History and Puerto Rico’s Revolt for Independence.

Preface
OLGA JIMÉNEZ DE WAGENHEIM

Introduction: Framing Latinos in New Jersey: From Invisibility to Empowerment
ALDO A . LAURIA SANTIAGO AND ULLA D. BERG

Part I Spaces and Places

1 Latino New Jersey: A Demographic and Geographic Portrait
RAYMOND SÁNCHEZ MAYERS, LYNA L. WIGGINS, ELSA CANDELARIO, AND LAURA CURRAN

2 Latino Segregation across New Jersey Counties: Are Latino Groups Becoming More or Less Residentially Segregated during the Last Four Decades?
GIOVANI BURGOS, ALEX F. TRILLO, AND ANIL VENKATESH

3 The Gateway Reconsidered: The Paradox of Latinx Barrioization in a Connected Metropolis
JOHANA LONDOÑO

4 From Havana on the Hudson to Bolivar’s Enclave: Change, Solidarity, and Conflict in Pan-Latinx Space
ALEX F. TRILLO AND JENNIFER AYALA

5 “Aggressive Newark”: Puerto Ricans, Brazilians, and Structuring Feelings under Neoliberalism
ANA Y. RAMOS-ZAYAS

Part II Histories

6 Peruvians in Paterson, New Jersey, 1920–1950
GIANNCARLO MUSCHI

7 “A Recoger Tomates”: Puerto Rican Farmworkers in the Garden State, 1940s–1980s
ISMAEL GARCÍA COLÓN AND WILLIAM SUÁREZ GÓMEZ

8 Puerto Ricans in New Jersey: Migration, Settlement, and Work, 1940s–1980s
ALDO A . LAURIA SANTIAGO

9 A Century of Cuban Music in New Jersey
BENJAMIN LAPIDUS

Part III Experiences

10 Mexican Immigrants Fighting for Educational Justice: Community Activism to Save a New Brunswick Public School
LILIA FERNÁNDEZ

11 Forgotten Voices: Gender and Social Networks in Paterson’s Peruvian Community
ELENA SABOGAL

12 “La Iglesia Católica es Mi Comunidad”: A Union City Latinx Destination from Arrival to Old Age
MELANIE Z. PLASENCIA

13 Parque Oaxaca/Jotería: Trans Latina History in New Brunswick from Urban Renewal to the Coronavirus Pandemic
DANIELA VALDES

Part IV Institutions

14 Reverse Diasporas: Immigrant Detention, Deportation, and Latinx Communities in New Jersey and South America
ULLA D. BERG

15 Latinx LGBTQ Students and Placemaking in School: Voguing and Ball Culture at Elizabeth High, 1989–1994
YAMIL AVIVI

16 From Puerto Rican to Latino Studies at Rutgers University: Fifty Years of Student Activism
KATHLEEN LÓPEZ

Notes on Contributors
Index