ISBN:
9780415934572
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (276 p.)
Parallel Title:
Print version Latino Crossings : Mexicans, Puerto Ricans and the Politics of Race and
DDC:
305.868/7207731
Keywords:
Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Despite being combined in census data, there are divisions between Mexicans and Puerto Ricans in the United States. This book examines how constructions of Latino self and otherness interact with America's white/black racial consciousness
Description / Table of Contents:
Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; CHAPTER 1 Introduction: Latino Crossings; CHAPTER 2 "Latino" Locations: The Politics of Space in Chicago; CHAPTER 3 Economies of Dignity: Ideologies of Work and Worth; CHAPTER 4 Performing Deservingness: "Civility" and "Modernity" in Conflict; CHAPTER 5 Familiar Apparitions: Gender and Ideologies of the Family; CHAPTER 6 Latino Languages, Mixed Signals; CHAPTER 7 Latino Rehearsals: Divergent Articulations of Latinidad; CHAPTER 8 Conclusion: Latino Futures?; Notes; References; Index;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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