Cristina Beltran

The Trouble with Unity

Latino Politics and the Creation of Identity

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Over the past decade, much attention has been given to examining the growing political influence of Latinos in the United States in order to define the so-called "Latino vote." The existence of a coherent, pan-ethnic Latino political agenda is, as this book shows, not only highly debatable, but democratically unviable. Situated at the intersection of political theory and Latino studies, The Trouble with Unity is a nuanced critique of civic Latinidad and the Latino electoral and protest politics that work to erase diversity and debate in favor of images of commonality. Cristina Beltr n looks at key moments in U.S. Latino political history through the lens of political, feminist, and cultural thought to provide a theoretically driven account of the many ways in which Latinos lay claim to the public realm. In its innovative approach to the realities of Latino protest politics, The Trouble with Unity advances both social movement and democratic political theory.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sydney University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. September 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 526g
• ISBN-13: 9780195375909
• ISBN-10: 0195375904
• Artikelnr.: 30205798

Autorenporträt

Cristina Beltran is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Haverford College.

Inhaltsangabe

* 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
* CONCLUSION
* Latino Is a Verb: Democracy, Latinidad, and the Creation of the
Political
* Notes
* Bibliography
* Index