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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786415703321

Autore

Rocco Raymond A.

Titolo

Transforming citizenship : democracy, membership, and belonging in Latino communities / / Raymond A. Rocco

Pubbl/distr/stampa

East Lansing, Michigan : , : Michigan State University Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-60917-418-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (290 p.)

Collana

Latinos in the United States Series

Disciplina

305.868/073

Soggetti

Hispanic Americans - Ethnic identity

Citizenship - United States

Political participation - United States

Hispanic Americans - Politics and government

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Framing the question of citizenship : membership, exclusionary inclusion, and Latinos in the national political imaginary -- Political theory and constructs of membership: difference and belonging in liberal democracies -- Reconceptualizing citizenship : membership, belonging, and the politics of racialization -- Associative citizenship : civil society, rights claims and expanding the public sphere -- Grounded rights claims : contesting membership and transforming citizenship in Latino urban communities -- Critical theory and the politics of solidarity : contradictions, tensions, and potentiality -- Concluding reflections : contesting membership/transforming Latino citizenship.

Sommario/riassunto

In Transforming Citizenship Raymond Rocco studies the "exclusionary inclusion" of Latinos based on racialization and how the processes behind this have shaped their marginalized citizenship status, offering a framework for explaining this dynamic. Contesting this status has been at the core of Latino politics for more than 150 years. Pursuing the goal of full, equal, and just inclusion in societal membership has long been a major part of the struggle to realize democratic normative principles. This illuminating research demonstrates the inherent



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910147113103321

Titolo

Kritika kultura : an electronic journal of literary/cultural and language studies

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Quezon City, Philippines, : Dept. of English, School of Humanities, Ateneo de Manila University, [2002]-

Soggetti

Philippine literature (English)

Culture - Study and teaching - Philippines

Culture - Study and teaching

Journal

Periodicals.

Philippines Periodicals

Philippines

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico

Note generali

Refereed/Peer-reviewed

Title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed Apr. 6, 2006).

Sommario/riassunto

Refereed electronic journal of language and literary/cultural studies from the Dept. of English, Ateneo de Manilla University, Philippines, focusing on cross-cultural and cross-discipline examinations of "language and literature and cultural policy, cultural politics of representation, the political economy of language, literature and culture, the production of cultural texts, audience reception, systems of representation, effects of texts on concrete readers/audiences, the history and dynamics of canon formation, gender and sexuality, ethnicity, diaspora, nationalism and nationhood, national liberation movements, identity politics, feminism, women's liberation movements, etc."