The trouble with unity : Latino politics and the creation of identity /
Beltrán, Cristina.
Oxford : Oxford University Press,
2010.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-215) and index.
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.
Hispanic Americans
Hispanic Americans
Hispanic Americans
Political participation
Voting
Power (Social sciences)