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Whiteness on the Border : Mapping the US Racial Imagination in Brown and White /

"Historically, ideas of whiteness and Americanness have been built on the backs of racialized communities. The legacy of anti-Mexican stereotypes stretches back to the early nineteenth century when Anglo-American settlers first came into regular contact with Mexico and Mexicans. The images of t...

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Autor principal: Bebout, Lee (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : New York University Press, [2016]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Chicana/o Studies and the Whiteness Problem; or, Toward a Mapping of Whiteness on the Border
  • 1. What Did They Call Them after They Called Them "Greasers"? A Genealogy and Taxonomy of the Mexican Other
  • 2. "They Are Coming to Conquer Us!" The Nativist Aztlán, and the Fears and Fantasies of Whiteness
  • 3. With Friends Like These: The Supremacist Logic of Saviorism
  • 4. Deep in the Heart of Whiteness: White Desire and the Political Potential of Love
  • Conclusion: Imagining and Working toward Gringostroika.