Citizenship Excess: Latino/as, Media, and the Nation

Hector Amaya

Open Access Published by New York University Press 2013

Citizenship Excess

Latino/as, Media, and the Nation

Hector Amaya

Volume 29 in the series Critical Cultural Communication

https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814708453.001.0001

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About this book

“Drawing on the Athenian tradition of ‘wielding citizenship as a weapon to defend a contingently defined polis,’ Hector Amaya has crafted an elegant and sophisticated analysis of the contemporary policies designed to contain and criminalize Latina/os. Citizenship Excess demonstrates that he is one of the leading Latina/o Media Scholars today.”

—Angharad N. Valdivia, General Editor of the International Encyclopedia of Media Studies and author of Latina/os

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 cases ranging from the participation of Latino/as in the Iraqi war and pro-immigration reform marches to labor laws restricting Latino/a participation in English-language media and news coverage of undocumented immigrant detention centers. Citizenship Excess demonstrates that the evolution of the idea of citizenship in the United States and the political and cultural practices that define it are intricately intertwined with nativism.

Author / Editor information

Amaya Hector :

Hector Amaya is Associate Professor of Media Studies at University of Virginia. He is the author of Screening Cuba.

Reviews

Angharad N. Valdivia,author of A Latina in the Land of Hollywood:
Drawing on the Athenian tradition of & wielding citizenship as a weapon to defend a contingently defined polis, Hector Amaya has crafted an elegant and sophisticated analysis of the contemporary policies designed to contain and criminalize Latina/os.Citizenship Excess demonstrates that he is one of the leading Latina/o Media scholars today.

K. Sorensen:
Amayas book is crucial for anyone concerned about the position of Latinas/os in the US.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Preface and Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Part I. Defending the Walls
1. Toward a Latino Critique of Public Sphere Theory Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	41
2. Nativism and the 2006 Pro-Immigration Reform Rallies Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	68
3. Hutto: Staging Transnational Justice Claims in the Time of Coloniality Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	95
4. English- and Spanish-Language Media Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	123
Part II. Conditions of Inclusion
5. Labor and the Legal Structuring of Media Industries in the Case of Ugly Betty (ABC, 2006) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	161
6. Mediating Belonging, Inclusion, and Death Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	190
Conclusion: The Ethics of Nation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	221
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	231
References Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	243
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	263
About the Author Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	275

Language: English
Publisher: New York University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;

eBook

Published: May 6, 2013
ISBN: 9780814723838