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Latinx : the new force in American politics and culture
Published 2019 by Verso, London ; New York
ISBN 9781784783228
Bib Id 2578058
Edition Paperback edition.
Description 358 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
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2019-303136
ISBN
1784783226
9781784783228 (paperback) $19.95
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973.0468 M
Title
Latinx : the new force in American politics and culture
Varying Form of Title
New force in American politics and culture
Edition
Paperback edition.
Publication Information
2019 by Verso, London ; New York :
Description
358 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-338) and index.
Contents
Introduction -- The Spanish triangle -- Mestizaje vs. the hypo-American dream -- The second conquista : mestizaje on the down low -- Raza interrupted : new hybrid nationalisms -- Border thinking 101 : can la raza speak? -- Our raza, ourselves : a racial reenvisioning of twenty-first-century Latinx -- Towards a new raza politics : class awarness and hemispheric vision -- Media, marketing, and the invisible soul of Lainidad -- The Latinx urban space and identity -- Dismantling the master's house : the Latinx imaginary and neoliberal multiculturalism -- Epilogue: The Latin-X factor.
Summary
"Latinx" (pronounced 'La-teen-ex) is the gender-neutral term that covers the largest racial minority in the United States, 17 percent of the country. This is the fastest-growing sector of American society, containing the most immigrants. It is the poorest ethnic group in the country, whose political empowerment is altering the balance of forces in a growing number of states. And yet, Latin barely figure in America's racial conversation-the US census does not even have a category for "Latino." In this groundbreaking discussion, Ed Morales explains how Latin political identities are tied to a long Latin American history of mestizaje, translatable as "mixedness" or "hybridity", and that this border thinking is both a key to understanding bilingual, bicultural Latin cultures and politics and a challenge to America's infamously black/white racial regime. This searching and long-overdue exploration of a crucial development in American life updates Cornel West's bestselling Race Matters with a Latin inflection.
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