Lázaro Lima is Professor of Latino Studies in the Department of Africana, Puerto Rican, and Latino Studies at Hunter College, CUNY. He is the author of The Latino Body: Crisis Identities in American Literary and Cultural Memory and the coeditor, with Felice Picano, of Ambientes: New Queer Latino Writing.

Overview
Introduction. On Being Brown
in the Democratic Commons
Part I. A latina for the nation
1. Sonia Sotomayor and "the Latino Question"
2. Sonia Sotomayor's Elusive Embrace
Part II. Losing Sonia Sotomayor
3. Sonia Sotomayor, the Mediapheme
4. Sonia Sotomayor and Other States of Debt
Coda. Thinking Otherwise: Sonia Sotomayor and
the Emergence of Latino Legal Thought
Acknowledgments
Notes
Selected Bibliography