Latinx: The New Force in American Politics

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The Latinx revolution in US culture, society, and politics -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 ofmestizaje, 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 bestsellingRace Matterswith a Latin inflection.