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The trouble with unity : Latino politics and the creation of identity

By Cristina , Beltrán

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Year
2010
ISBN
9780195375909, 0195375904, 9780195375916, 0195375912
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1376260 bytes)
Pages
226\241
Time added
2019-10-29 23:54:33
Hispanic Americans -- Ethnic identity;Hispanic Ame

Description

Introduction: Sleeping giants and demographic floods : Latinos and the politics of emergence -- El pueblo unido : visions of unity in the Chicano and Puerto Rican movements -- The incomplete and agonistic "we" : reading Latinidad into democratic theory -- "The bacchanalia of the political" : Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the dream of Latino identification -- From identification to representation : civic Latinidad and the making of the "Latino vote" -- Labor, action, and the space of appearance : immigrant embodiment and the problem of freedom -- Conclusion: Latino is a verb : democracy, Latinidad, and the creation of the political.

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