Most cited papers in Latin American and Latino Studies
What are the most cited papers in Latin American and Latino Studies?
The most cited paper in Latin American and Latino Studies is "Epistemology of the Closet" (Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, 1990), with 3,084 citations. Next come "Mexican Migration and the Social Space of Postmodernism" (1,133) and "Decolonizing Post-Colonial Studies and Paradigms of Political-Economy: Transmodernity, Decolonial Thinking, and Global Coloniality" (1,125).
Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 196 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Epistemology of the Closet Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick | 1990 | 3,084 |
| 2 | Mexican Migration and the Social Space of Postmodernism Roger Rouse · Diaspora A Journal of Transnational Studies | Mar 1991 | 1,133 |
| 3 | Decolonizing Post-Colonial Studies and Paradigms of Political-Economy: Transmodernity, Decolonial Thinking, and Global Coloniality Ramón Grosfoguel · TRANSMODERNITY Journal of Peripheral Cultural Production of the Luso-Hispanic World | 13 May 2011 | 1,125 |
| 4 | Using a Chicana Feminist Epistemology in Educational Research Dolores Delgado Bernal · Harvard Educational Review | Dec 1998 | 1,004 |
| 5 | The Californian ideology Richard Barbrook, R. Andrew Cameron · Science as Culture | 1996 | 970 |
| 6 | The Latino threat: constructing immigrants, citizens, and the nation Lynn M. Stephen · Journal of International Migration and Integration / Revue de l integration et de la migration internationale | 6 Apr 2009 | 950 |
| 7 | Cultural intimacy: social poetics in the nation-state Márcio Goldman · Mana | Oct 1998 | 917 |
| 8 | From bi-racial to tri-racial: Towards a new system of racial stratification in the USA Eduardo Bonilla‐Silva · Ethnic and Racial Studies | 10 Sep 2004 | 897 |
| 9 | The Long Civil Rights Movement and the Political Uses of the Past Jacquelyn Dowd Hall · Journal of American History | Mar 2005 | 896 |
| 10 | Time Passages: Collective Memory and American Popular Culture. Roy Rosenzweig, George Lipsitz · Journal of American History | Jun 1991 | 722 |
| 11 | A Nation for All: Race, Inequality, and Politics in Twentieth-Century Cuba Aline Helg · Hispanic American Historical Review | May 2002 | 690 |
| 12 | The Decolonial Imaginary: Writing Chicanas into History Susan Lee Johnson, Emma Pérez · Western Historical Quarterly | 2000 | 649 |
| 13 | "The Hour of Eugenics": Race, Gender, and Nation in Latin America. Kenneth F. Kiple, Nancy Leys Stepan · The American Historical Review | Apr 1993 | 630 |
| 14 | "Quare" studies, or (almost) everything I know about queer studies I learned from my grandmother E. Patrick Johnson · Text and Performance Quarterly | 2001 | 601 |
| 15 | Fragmented Ties: Salvadoran Immigrant Networks in America Susan Bibler Coutin · American Ethnologist | May 2002 | 599 |
| 16 | Maddening States Begoña Aretxaga · Annual Review of Anthropology | Oct 2003 | 595 |
| 17 | At Home in the World: Cosmopolitanism Now David Gross, Timothy J. Brennan · World Literature Today | 1999 | 583 |
| 18 | Borders and Boundaries of State and Self at the End of Empire Michael Kearney · Journal of Historical Sociology | Mar 1991 | 580 |
| 19 | Feeling Brown, Feeling Down: Latina Affect, the Performativity of Race, and the Depressive Position José Esteban Muñoz · Signs | Mar 2006 | 561 |
| 20 | Visible Identities: Race, Gender, and the Self Maureen Meharg Kentoff · Sex Roles | 30 Nov 2006 | 536 |
| 21 | Settler Colonialism as Structure Evelyn Nakano Glenn · Sociology of Race and Ethnicity | 2015 | 523 |
| 22 | Movements and Memory: The Making of the Stonewall Myth Elizabeth A. Armstrong, Suzanna M. Crage · American Sociological Review | Oct 2006 | 515 |
| 23 | The Colonizer/Colonized Chicana Ethnographer: Identity, Marginalization, and Co-optation in the Field Sofía A. Villenas · Harvard Educational Review | Dec 1996 | 500 |
| 24 | Chicana/Latina Testimonios : Mapping the Methodological, Pedagogical, and Political Dolores Delgado Bernal, Rebeca Burciaga, Judith Flores Carmona · Equity & Excellence in Education | Jul 2012 | 496 |
| 25 | Zapata and the Mexican Revolution. Michael Cobas Meyer, John Womack · Hispanic American Historical Review | Nov 1969 | 487 |
| 26 | The Mexican-US Border: The Making of an Anthropology of Borderlands ROBERT R. ÁLVAREZ · Annual Review of Anthropology | Oct 1995 | 479 |
| 27 | The Empty Fortress M BETTELHEI, Donna M. Gelfand · The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease | Apr 1967 | 477 |
| 28 | Changing Race: Latinos, the Census, and the History of Ethnicity in the United States Emilio A. Parrado, Clara E. Rodríguez · Journal of American History | Sep 2001 | 411 |
| 29 | Tropicalizations. Transcultural Representations of Latinidad Carlota Caulfield, Frances R. Aparicio, Susana Chávez-Silverman et al. · Hispania | Dec 1999 | 410 |
| 30 | Beyond the Melting Pot: The Negroes, Puerto Ricans, Jews, Italians, and Irish of New York City, by Nathan Glazer, Daniel Patrick Moynihan Robert Dougherty Cross · Political Science Quarterly | Dec 1964 | 401 |
| 31 | Latino Ethnic Consciousness: The Case of Mexican Americans and Puerto Ricans in Chicago Judith Rosenberg Raftery, Felix M. Padilla · Western Historical Quarterly | Oct 1986 | 380 |
| 32 | Gift of the Devil: A History of Guatemala. Ralph Lee Woodward, Jim Handy · Hispanic American Historical Review | May 1986 | 379 |
| 33 | Forum: On Resisting Resistance Michael Fobes Brown · American Anthropologist | Dec 1996 | 374 |
| 34 | Bitter Fruit: The Untold Story of the American Coup in Guatemala Whitney T. Perkins, Stephen E. Schlesinger, Stephen Kinzer · Journal of American History | Jun 1983 | 364 |
| 35 | The Madonna of 115th Street: Faith and Community in Italian Harlem, 1880-1950 Melvin D. Williams, Robert Anthony Orsi · Journal of American History | Sep 1986 | 360 |
| 36 | OVERCOMING PATRIARCHAL CONSTRAINTS: Pierrette Hondagneu‐Sotelo · Gender & Society | Sep 1992 | 353 |
| 37 | Miscegenation Law, Court Cases, and Ideologies of "Race" in Twentieth-Century America Peggy Pascoe · Journal of American History | Jun 1996 | 351 |
| 38 | Race mixture in the history of Latin America Magnüs Mörner | 1967 | 346 |
| 39 | Our Rightful Share: The Afro-Cuban Struggle for Equality, 1886-1912 Alejandro de la Fuente · Hispanic American Historical Review | May 1996 | 345 |
| 40 | Latino Crossings:Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, and the politics of race and citizenship Nicholas De Genova, Ana Y. Ramos‐Zayas | 2003 | 341 |
| 41 | The Natives Are Gazing and Talking Back: Reviewing the Problematics of Positionality, Voice, and Accountability among "Native" Anthropologists Lanita Jacobs‐Huey · American Anthropologist | Sep 2002 | 303 |
| 42 | Changing Race: Latinos, the Census, and the History of Ethnicity in the United States Elaine C. Lacy · Hispanic American Historical Review | Aug 2001 | 303 |
| 43 | From Borderlands to Borders: Empires, Nation-States, and the Peoples in Between in North American History Jeremy Adelman, Stephen Aron · The American Historical Review | Jun 1999 | 302 |
| 44 | The White Scourge: Mexicans, Blacks, and Poor Whites in Texas Cotton Culture Arnoldo De León, Neil T. Foley · Western Historical Quarterly | 1998 | 301 |
| 45 | Working the Boundaries: Race, Space, and "Illegality" in Mexican Chicago Nicholas De Genova · The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology | 28 Jun 2008 | 296 |
| 46 | Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez Michael A. Olivas · The Journal of Higher Education | Jul 1983 | 295 |
| 47 | The Reorder of Things: The University and Its Pedagogies of Minority Difference Roderick A. Ferguson · Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University) | 7 Nov 2012 | 294 |
| 48 | The English Professors of Brazil: On the Diasporic Roots of the Yorùbá Nation J. Lorand Matory · Comparative Studies in Society and History | 1999 | 291 |
| 49 | :Separate Roads to Feminism: Black, Chicana, and White Feminist Movements in America's Second Wave Jane F. Gerhard · The American Historical Review | Dec 2005 | 290 |
| 50 | A Consumers' Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America Richard J. Bell · The Journal of Popular Culture | 29 Jan 2004 | 284 |
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