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The trouble with unity : Latino politics and the creation of identity /

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 a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Beltrán, Cristina
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2010]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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.