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

Title
The trouble with unity : Latino politics and the creation of identity / Cristina Beltrán.
Author
Beltrán, Cristina.
Publication
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.

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xi, 226 p.; 24 cm.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-215) and index.
Contents
Introduction: Sleeping giants and demographic floods : Latinos and the politics of emergence -- El pueblo unido : visions of unity in the Chicano and Puerto Rican movements -- The incomplete and agonistic "we" : reading Latinidad into democratic theory -- "The bacchanalia of the political" : Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the dream of Latino identification -- From identification to representation : civic Latinidad and the making of the "Latino vote" -- 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.
Call Number
JFE 10-6077
ISBN
  • 9780195375916 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0195375912 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 9780195375909 (hardback : alk. paper)
  • 0195375904 (hardback : alk. paper)
LCCN
2009047289
OCLC
YBP 2009047289
Author
Beltrán, Cristina.
Title
The trouble with unity : Latino politics and the creation of identity / Cristina Beltrán.
Imprint
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-215) and index.
Research Call Number
JFE 10-6077
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