The New Americans? : Immigration, Protest, and the Politics of Latino Identity /
"In 2006, millions of Latinos mobilized in opposition to H.R. 4437, an immigration proposal pending before the US Congress. In her new book, Heather Silber Mohamed suggests that these unprecedented protests marked a turning point for the Latino population--a point that is even more salient ten...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lawrence, Kansas :
University Press of Kansas,
2017.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- "We are America"
- Becoming American: the politics-to-identity link
- From assimilation to nationalism to "we are America": immigration law, social movements, and identity frames, 1900s-2006
- The immigration paradox: Latino policy priorities and the limits of pan-ethnic unity
- Defining American: identification, political socialization, and protest politics
- American identities: self-perception among Latinos in the United States
- Can protests make Latinos "American"? The 2006 marches and the politics-to-identity link
- Epilogue.