2 Latino Segregation across New Jersey Counties: Are Latino Groups Becoming More or Less Residentially Segregated during the Last Four Decades?
GIOVANI BURGOS, ALEX F. TRILLO, AND ANIL VENKATESH

3 The Gateway Reconsidered: The Paradox of Latinx Barrioization in a Connected Metropolis
JOHANA LONDOÑO

4 From Havana on the Hudson to Bolivar’s Enclave: Change, Solidarity, and Conflict in Pan-Latinx Space
ALEX F. TRILLO AND JENNIFER AYALA

5 “Aggressive Newark”: Puerto Ricans, Brazilians, and Structuring Feelings under Neoliberalism
ANA Y. RAMOS-ZAYAS

Part II Histories

6 Peruvians in Paterson, New Jersey, 1920–1950
GIANNCARLO MUSCHI

7 “A Recoger Tomates”: Puerto Rican Farmworkers in the Garden State, 1940s–1980s
ISMAEL GARCÍA COLÓN AND WILLIAM SUÁREZ GÓMEZ

8 Puerto Ricans in New Jersey: Migration, Settlement, and Work, 1940s–1980s
ALDO A . LAURIA SANTIAGO

9 A Century of Cuban Music in New Jersey
BENJAMIN LAPIDUS

Part III Experiences

10 Mexican Immigrants Fighting for Educational Justice: Community Activism to Save a New Brunswick Public School
LILIA FERNÁNDEZ

11 Forgotten Voices: Gender and Social Networks in Paterson’s Peruvian Community
ELENA SABOGAL

12 “La Iglesia CatÓlica es Mi Comunidad”: A Union City Latinx Destination from Arrival to Old Age
MELANIE Z. PLASENCIA

13 Parque Oaxaca/JoterÍa: Trans Latina History in New Brunswick from Urban Renewal to the Coronavirus Pandemic
DANIELA VALDES

Part IV Institutions

14 Reverse Diasporas: Immigrant Detention, Deportation, and Latinx Communities in New Jersey and South America
ULLA D. BERG

15 Latinx LGBTQ Students and Placemaking in School: Voguing and Ball Culture at Elizabeth High, 1989–1994
YAMIL AVIVI

16 From Puerto Rican to Latino Studies at Rutgers University: Fifty Years of Student Activism
KATHLEEN LÓPEZ

Notes on Contributors
Index