Juan Flores & Renato Rosaldo 
A Companion to Latina/o Studies [PDF ebook] 

Juan Flores is currently Professor of Latino Studies in the
Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University.
For many years he has taught Puerto Rican and Latino Studies at the
City University of New York (CUNY) and in the Sociology Program at
CUNY Graduate Center. He is the author of Divided Borders, La
venganza de Cortijo, From Bomba to Hip-Hop, and Poetry in
East Germany, and co-editor of On Edge: The Crisis of
Contemporary Latin American Culture. Among his other
publications are the translations of Memoirs of Bernardo
Vega and Cortijo’s Wake/El entierro de Cortijo by
Edgardo Rodríguez Juliá.
A Chicano scholar, Renato Rosaldo is Lucy Stern Professor
Emeritus at Stanford where he taught for many years, and he now
teaches at NYU where he was founding Director of the Latino Studies
Program. His books include Ilongot Headhunting,
1883-1974 and Culture and Truth. A collection of
his essays, Renato Rosaldo: Ensayos en antropología
crítica, was recently published in Mexico. He has edited a
collection, Cultural Citizenship in Island Southeast Asia,
and also co-edited collections, The Incas and the Aztecs,
1400-1800, Creativity/Anthropology, and The
Anthropology of Globalization: A Reader. Written in English and
Spanish, his first collection of poetry, Prayer to Spider
Woman/Rezo a la mujer araña, won an American Book Award,
2004. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and
Sciences.