Introduction : who are we?
"Jason's Indian" : Mexican Americans and the denial of indigenous ethnicity in Rudolfo Anaya's Bless me, Ultima
"Puerto Rican negro" : defining race in Piri Thomas's Down these mean streets
Speaking for others : problems of representation in the writing of Julia Alvarez
Complicating Cubanidad : novels of Achy Obejas and Cristina García
"The pleas of the desperate" : magical realism, Latinidad, and (or) collective agency in Ana Castillo's so far from God
Dirty girls, German shepherds, and Puerto Rican independentistas : "the Latino imaginary" and the case of Cuba
Imagining identity/seeing difference : Demetria Martínez's mother tongue
Conclusion : the shifting nature of Latinidad.
