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

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Beltrán, Cristina
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2010]
Subjects:
Power (Social sciences) > United States.
Voting > United States.
Political participation > United States.
Hispanic Americans > Politics and government.
Hispanic Americans > Civil rights.
Hispanic Americans > Ethnic identity.
Pouvoir (Sciences sociales) > États-Unis.
Vote > États-Unis.
Participation politique > États-Unis.
Américains d'origine latino-américaine > Droits.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
Hispanic Americans > Civil rights
Hispanic Americans > Ethnic identity
Hispanic Americans > Politics and government
Political participation
Power (Social sciences)
Voting
United States
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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