The Latino nineteenth century

Introduction: historical Latinidades and archival encounters / Rodrigo Lazo

The errant Latino: Irisarri, Central Americanness, and migration's intention / Kirsten Silva Gruesz

Historicizing nineteenth-century Latina/o textuality / Raúl Coronado

On the borders of independence: Manuel Torres and Spanish American independence in Filadelphia / Emily García

From Union officers to Cuban rebels: the story of the brothers Cavada and their American civil wars / Jesse Alemán

Almost-Latino literature: approaching truncated Latinidades / Robert McKee Irwin

Toward a reading of nineteenth-century Latino/a short fiction / John Alba Cutler

When archives collide: recovering modernity in early Mexican American literature / José Aranda

Feeling Mexican: Ruiz de Burton's sentimental railroad fiction / Marissa K. López

Pronouncing citizenship: Juan Nepomuceno Cortina's war to be read / Alberto Varon

Raimundo Cabrera, the Latin American archive, and the Latina/o continuum / Carmen E. Lamas

Flirting in Yankeeland: rethinking American exceptionalism through Argentine travel writing / Carrie Tirado Bramen

"Hacemos la guerra pacífica": Cuban nationalism and politics in Key West, 1870-1900 / Gerald E. Poyo

Citizenship and illegality in the global California gold rush / Juan Poblete

"El negro es tan capaz como el blanco": José Martí, "Pachín" Marín, Lucy Parsons, and the politics of late-nineteenth-century Latinidad / Laura Lomas

Sotero Figueroa: writing Afro-Caribbeans into history in the late nineteenth century / Nicolás Kanellos

Response: from Criollo/a to Latino/a: the Latino nineteenth century in a hemispheric context / Ralph Bauer.