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Latinx : the new force in American politics and culture
- Title
- Latinx : the new force in American politics and culture / Ed Morales.
- Author
- Morales, Ed, 1956-
- Publication
- London ; Brooklyn, N.Y. : Verso, 2018.
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- Description
- 358 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
- Summary
- "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, Latins 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"--
- Subjects
- Hispanic Americans > Politics and government
- Hispanic Americans > Social conditions
- Hispanic Americans > Politics and government > 21st century
- SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > Hispanic American Studies
- Hispanic Americans > Social conditions > 21st century
- 2000-2099
- SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural
- Hispanic Americans > Ethnic identity
- Ethnic relations
- Cultural pluralism > United States
- United States > Ethnic relations
- Bibliography (note)
- 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 nationalism -- Border thinking 101 : can la raza speak? -- Our raza, ourselves : a racial reenvisioning of twenty-first-century Latinx -- Towards a new raza politics : class awareness and hemispheric vision -- Media, marketing, and the invisible soul of Latinidad -- The Latinx urban space identity -- Dismantling the master's house : the Latinx imaginary and neoliberal multiculturalism -- Epilogue : the Latin-X factor.
- Call Number
- JFD 18-4167
- ISBN
- 9781784783198
- 1784783196
- LCCN
- 2018008770
- OCLC
- 1030445635
- Author
- Morales, Ed, 1956- author.
- Title
- Latinx : the new force in American politics and culture / Ed Morales.
- Publisher
- London ; Brooklyn, N.Y. : Verso, 2018.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-338) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 2000-2099
- Other Form:
- Online version: Morales, Ed, 1956- Latinx. London ; Brooklyn, N.Y. : Verso, 2018 9781784783198 (DLC) 2018015986
- Research Call Number
- JFD 18-4167