Continental Shifts : Migration, Representation, and the Struggle for Justice in Latin(o) America /

Applying a broad geographical approach to comparative Latino literary and cultural studies, Continental Shifts illuminates how the discursive treatment of Latinos changed dramatically following the enactment of NAFTA-a shift exacerbated by 9/11. While previous studies of immigrant representation hav...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Riofrio, John D. "Rio" (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Austin : University of Texas Press, [2021]
Temas:
Hispanic Americans > Ethnic identity.
Hispanic Americans > Social conditions.
Hispanic Americans in mass media.
Hispanic Americans > Ethnic identity.
Hispanic Americans > Social conditions.
Latin America > Emigration and immigration > Social aspects.
United States > Emigration and immigration > Social aspects.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • One Hemispheric Latinidades: Migrating Bodies and the Blurred Borders of Latino Identities
  • Two Dirty Politics of Representation: Dehumanizing Discourse, Latinidad, and the Struggle for Self-Ascribed Ethnic Identity
  • Three Spectacles of Incarceration: Biopolitics, Public Shaming, and the Pornography of Prisons
  • Four Latinos in a Post-9/11 Moment: "American" Identity and the Public Latino Body
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index

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