Voz, or voice, thematically structures the twleve original essays of Latina/o Discourse in Vernacular Spaces. This collection extends the study of Latina/o communication, in particular vernacular expressions covering a wide array of inquiries. The essays address such diverse topics as foundational developments, the intersection of culture, theory and disciplinarity, challenges to prevailing ideas about belonging and citizenship, identity tensions in latinidad, marginality, and nationalism, and voices that demonstrate possibilities for solidarity, redefinition and reclamations.

Taking up the charge to study discourses of marginalized groups, while simultaneously extending scholarship about Latina/os in the field of Communication, Latina/o Discourse in Vernacular Spaces: Somos de Una Voz? provides the most current work examining the vernacular voices of Latina/os. The editors of this diverse collection structure the book along four topics_Locating Foundations, Citizenship and Belonging, The Politics of Self-Representation, and Trans/National Voces_that are guided by the organizing principle of voz/voces [voice/voces]. Voz/voces resonates not only in intellectual endeavors but also in public arenas in which perceptions of Latina/os' being of one voice circulate. The study of voz/voces proceeds from a variety of sites including cultural myth, social movement, music, testimonios, a website, and autoethnographic performance. By questioning and addressing the politics of voz/voces, the essays collectively underscore the complexity that shapes Latina/o multivocality. Ultimately, the contours of Latina/o vernacular expressions call attention to the ways that these unique communities continue to craft identities that transform social understandings of who Latina/os are, to engage in forms of resistance that alter relations of power, and to challenge self- and dominant representations.

Chapter 1 Preface
Chapter 2 Introduction
Part 3 Section One. Locating Foundations
Chapter 4 Chapter One. Listening to Our Voices: Latina/os and the Communities They Speak
Chapter 5 Chapter Two. Tracing the Emergence of Latin@ Vernaculars in Studies of Latin@ Communication
Chapter 6 Chapter Three. The Rhetorical Legacy ofCoyolxauhqui: (Re)collecting and (Re)membering Voice
Part 7 Section Two. Acts of In/Exclusion
Chapter 8 Chapter Four. Gender Politics, Democratic Demand and Anti-Essentialism in the New York Young Lords
Chapter 9 Chapter Five. DREAMers' Discourse: Young Latino/a Immigrants and the Naturalization of the American Dream
Chapter 10 Chapter Six.Nuestro Himno as Heterotopic Mimicry: On the Ambivalences of a Latin@ Voicing
Chapter 11 Chapter Seven.Latinidad inUgly Betty: Authenticity and the Paradox of Representation
Part 12 Section Three. Trans/National Voces
Chapter 13 Chapter Eight. Of Rocks and Nations:Voces Rockeras [Rock Music Voices] and the Discourse of "Nationality"
Chapter 14 Chapter Nine. When Sexual Becomes Spiritual: Lila Downs and the Body of Voice
Chapter 15 Chapter Ten. 'This is One Line You Won't Have to Worry about Crossing': Crossing Borders and Becoming
Chapter 16 Chapter Eleven. Hablando Por (Nos)Otros, Speaking for Ourselves: Exploring the Possibilities of 'Speaking Por' Family and Pueblo in the Bolivian TestimonioSí Me Permiten Hablar [Let Me Speak!]