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Author Morales, Ed, 1956- author.

Title Latinx : the new force in American politics and culture / Ed Morales.

Publication Info. London ; Brooklyn, N.Y. : Verso, 2018.

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 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  973.0468 MOR    Check Shelf
Description 358 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-338) and index.
Contents Introduction -- The Spanish triangle -- Mestizaje vs. the hypo-American dream -- The second conquista : mestizaje on the down-low -- Raza interrupted : new hybrid nationalism -- Border thinking 101 : can la raza speak? -- Our raza, ourselves : a racial reenvisioning of twenty-first-century Latinx -- Towards a new raza politics : class awareness and hemispheric vision -- Media, marketing, and the invisible soul of Latinidad -- The Latinx urban space identity -- Dismantling the master's house : the Latinx imaginary and neoliberal multiculturalism -- Epilogue : the Latin-X factor.
Summary "The Latinx revolution in US culture, society, and politics "Latinx" (pronounced "La-teen-ex") is the gender-neutral term that covers the largest racial minority in the United States, 17 percent of the country. This is the fastest-growing sector of American society, containing the most immigrants. It is the poorest ethnic group in the country, whose political empowerment is altering the balance of forces in a growing number of states. And yet, Latins barely figure in America's racial conversation--the US census does not even have a category for "Latino." In this groundbreaking discussion, Ed Morales explains how Latin political identities are tied to a long Latin American history of mestizaje, translatable as "mixedness" or "hybridity", and that this border thinking is both a key to understanding bilingual, bicultural Latin cultures and politics and a challenge to America's infamously black/white racial regime. This searching and long-overdue exploration of a crucial development in American life updates Cornel West's bestselling Race Matters with a Latin inflection"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Hispanic Americans -- Politics and government -- 21st century.
Hispanic Americans -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
Hispanic Americans -- Ethnic identity.
Cultural pluralism -- United States.
United States -- Ethnic relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- Hispanic American Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
Hispanic Americans -- Ethnic identity. (OCoLC)fst00957556
Cultural pluralism. (OCoLC)fst01715991
Ethnic relations. (OCoLC)fst00916005
Hispanic Americans -- Politics and government. (OCoLC)fst00957586
Hispanic Americans -- Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst00957600
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Chronological Term 2000-2099
Other Form: Online version: Morales, Ed, 1956- Latinx. London ; Brooklyn, N.Y. : Verso, 2018 9781784783198 (DLC) 2018015986
ISBN 9781784783198 (hardcover)
1784783196 (hardcover)
9781784783204 (US electronic book)
178478320X (US electronic book)
9781784783211 (UK electronic book)
1784783218 (UK electronic book)
Standard No. 99978689809
13308810
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