Cruelty as Citizenship : How Migrant Suffering Sustains White Democracy /

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Why are immigrants from Mexico and Latin America such an affectively charged population for political conservatives? More than a decade before the election of Donald Trump, vitriolic and dehumanizing rhetoric against migrants was already part of the national conversation. Situating the contemporary...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Beltrán, Cristina (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2020
Colección:Forerunners (Minneapolis, Minn.)
Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
White supremacy movements > United States.
Hispanic Americans > Violence against.
Immigrants > Violence against > United States.
United States > Emigration and immigration > Political aspects.
United States > Emigration and immigration > Social aspects.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : immigration, Latinos, and the politics of the white racial imaginary
  • Freedom on the frontier : white democracy and America's revolutionary spirit
  • A desire for land but not people : Herrenvolk democracy and the violent legacies of the Mexican-American War
  • Authorized violence : migrant suffering and participatory (white) democracy
  • Conclusion : migrant futurity, divided whiteness, and the authoritarian turn.

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