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Latino crossings : Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, and the politics of race and citizenship
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Latino crossings : Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, and the politics of race and citizenship / Nicholas De Genova and Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas.
ISBN
9780415934565
0415934567
9780415934572
0415934575
Published
New York : Routledge, 2003.
Physical Description
ix, 257 pages : map ; 24 cm.
Summary
Despite being combined in census data, there are divisions between Mexicans and Puerto Ricans in the United States. This study examines how constructions of Latino self and otherness interact with America's white/black racial consciousness.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
December 07, 2015
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-245) and index.
Contents
Introduction : Latino crossings
"Latino" locations : the politics of space in Chicago
Economies of dignity : ideologies of work and worth
Performing deservingness : "Civility" and "Modernity" in conflict
Familiar apparitions : gender and ideologies of the family
Latino languages, mixed signals
Latino rehearsals : divergent articulations of Latinidad
Conclusion : Latino futures?
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