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UNINA9910852985103321 |
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Autore |
Amaya Hector |
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Titolo |
Citizenship excess : Latinas/os, media, and the nation / / Hector Amaya |
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New York, : New York University Press, 2013 |
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New York, NY : , : New York University Press, , [2013] |
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©2013 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (286 p.) |
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Collana |
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Critical cultural communication |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Hispanic Americans |
Latin Americans - United States |
Citizenship - United States |
Hispanic Americans and mass media - Political aspects |
Mass media and immigrants - Political aspects |
Racism - United States |
United States Emigration and immigration Government policy |
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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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pt. 1. Defending the walls -- pt. 2. Conditions of inclusion. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Drawing on contemporary conflicts between Latino/as and anti-immigrant forces, Citizenship Excess illustrates the limitations of liberalism as expressed through U.S. media channels. Inspired by Latin American critical scholarship on the “coloniality of power,” Amaya demonstrates that nativists use the privileges associated with citizenship to accumulate power. That power is deployed to aggressively shape politics, culture, and the law, effectively undermining Latino/as who are marked by the ethno-racial and linguistic difference that nativists love to hate. Yet these social characteristics present crucial challenges to the political, legal, and cultural practices that define citizenship. Amaya examines the role of ethnicity and language in shaping the mediated public sphere through |
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