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Beltrán Cristina |
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The trouble with unity : Latino politics and the creation of identity / / Cristina Beltran |
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New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2010 |
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©2010 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (241 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Hispanic Americans - Ethnic identity |
Hispanic Americans - Civil rights |
Hispanic Americans - Politics and government |
Political participation - United States |
Voting - United States |
Power (Social sciences) - United States |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Introduction : Sleeping Giants and Demographic Floods: Latinos and the Politics of Emergence; 1. El Pueblo Unido : Visions of Unity in the Chicano and Puerto Rican Movements; 2. The Incomplete and Agonistic "We": Reading Latinidad into Democratic Theory; 3. "The Bacchanalia of the Political": Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the Dream of Latino Identification; 4. From Identification to Representation: Civic Latinidad and the Making of the "Latino Vote"; 5. 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 PoliticalNotes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Over the past decade, much attention has been given to the growing political influence of Latinos in the United States in order to define the so-called ""Latino vote."" But the existence of a coherent Latino political agenda is highly debatable and likely unviable, as electoral and protest politics erase diversity and debate in favor of images of unity. Situated |
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at the intersection of political theory and Latino studies, this book is the first comprehensive critique of civic Latinidad, analyzing the relationship among participatory democracy, public speech, and racial identification. |
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