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2. National and subnational Latino groups often use separate categories to identify themselves. For example, Mexican Americans might use the term Chicano/a and Puerto Ricans the term Boricua. Each term has its own particular historical, political, and regional meaning. 3. The term Latin(o) America was first coined by Diane Taylor, and it has been used in similar ways by other authors to theorize issues of mestizaje (mixed race) and hybridity among Latin American and U.S. Latina/o subjects. See also works by Spitta and Poblete. 4. Entry lengths (roughly four, seven, or thirteen thousand words) vary depending on the number of Latinos as a percentage of the state’s total population, as determined by the 2000 U.S. census. Selected Bibliography Gonzalez, Gilbert, and Raul Fernandez. A Century of Chicano History: Empire, Nations, and Migration. New York: Routledge, 2003. Gonzalez, Juan. Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America. New York: Viking Penguin, 2000. Gutiérrez, David. The Columbia History of Latinos in the United States since 1960. New York: Columbia University Press, 2004. Oboler, Suzanne. Ethnic Labels, Latino Lives: Identity and the Politics of (Re)Presentation in the United States. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1995. Oboler, Suzanne, and Deena J. González, eds. The Oxford History of Latinos and Latinas in the United States. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. Overmyer-Velázquez, Mark, ed. History of Latinos in the United States, 6 vols. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 2007. Poblete, Juan. Critical Latin American and Latino Studies. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003. Ruiz, Vicki. “Nuestra América: Latino History as United States History.” Journal of American History 93, no. 3 (December 2006): 655–672. Sánchez, George J. Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900–1945. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. Spitta, Silvia. Between Two Waters: Narratives of Transculturation in Latin America. Houston, TX: Rice University Press, 1995. Taylor, Diana, and Juan Villegas, eds. Negotiating Performance: Gender, Sexuality, and Theatricality in Latin/o America. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1994. Introduction xxiii