Latinx : the new force in American politics and culture / Ed Morales.
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
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- ISBN: 9781784783198
- ISBN: 1784783196
- Physical Description: 358 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Publisher: London ; Verso, 2018.
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-338) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
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