Latinx
Subtitle: the new force in American politics and culture
By: Ed Morales
Publisher: Verso
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 358
ISBN-13: 9781784783198
Subjects: Politics and government; Ethnic identity; Cultural pluralism; Social conditions; Hispanic Americans; Ethnic relations
Description: "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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-338) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The Spanish triangle; title: Mestizaje vs. the hypo-American dream; title: The second conquista : mestizaje on the down-low; title: Raza interrupted : new hybrid nationalism; title: Border thinking 101 : can la raza speak?; title: Our raza, ourselves : a racial reenvisioning of twenty-first-century Latinx; title: Towards a new raza politics : class awareness and hemispheric vision; title: Media, marketing, and the invisible soul of Latinidad; title: The Latinx urban space identity; title: Dismantling the master's house : the Latinx imaginary and neoliberal multiculturalism; title: Epilogue : the Latin-X factor.