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The Trouble with Unity : Latino Politics and the Creation of Identity.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2010Copyright date: ©2010Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (241 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780199704675
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Trouble with UnityDDC classification:
  • 973.04679999999996
LOC classification:
  • E184.S75.B458 2010
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- 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 Political -- Notes -- 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.
Summary: 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 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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Intro -- 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 Political -- Notes -- 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.

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 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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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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