133 records matched your query
03475aam a2200445 i 4500 001 926347C4961911E8A89F3E0097128E48 003 SILO 005 20180802010035 008 171127s2018 njua b 001 0 eng c 010 $a 2017035055 020 $a 0813592836 020 $a 9780813592831 020 $a 0813592828 020 $a 9780813592824 035 $a (OCoLC)1007561056 040 $a LBSOR/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d TOH $d YDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a E184.C34 $b C37 2018 082 00 $a 305.868/073 $2 23 100 1 $a Cardenas, Maritza E., $e author. 245 10 $a Constituting Central American-Americans : $b transnational identities and the politics of dislocation / $c Maritza E. Cardenas. 264 1 $a New Brunswick, New Jersey : $b Rutgers University Press, $c [2018] 300 $a vii, 197 pages ; $c 23 cm. 490 1 $a Latinidad: transnational cultures in the United States 520 $a "Central Americans are the third largest and fastest growing Latino population in the US. And yet, despite their demographic presence, there has been little scholarship focused on Central Americans in the US. Constituting Central American-Americans is an exploration of the historical and disciplinary conditions that have structured US Central American identity and of the ways in which this identity challenges the way we frame current discussions of Latina/o, American ethnic, and diasporic identities. In focusing on the formation of Central American identity in the U.S., and specifically within the city of Los Angeles, this book challenges us to think about Central America and its diaspora in relation to other US ethno-racial identities. By calling attention to Central America(n) as an important discursive category of analysis, Martiza CaÌrdenas unsettles not only scholarship that promotes the Latina/o dyad but also the binary nature of hemispheric studies that parcels the world into east/west and north/south, which in turn excludes the important role the isthmus has played in global events. In addition, studying Central America and US Central Americans further disrupts US American constructions of seeing this geopolitical space as America's "backyard" (a space outside of the confines of the US political landscape) and Central Americans as peripheral to the American body politic"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Remembering La Patria Grande: locating the nation in Central American history -- Constructing the Central American national imaginary -- Performing Centralamericanismo: heterotopias and transnational identities at the Cofeca Parade -- Subjects in passing: Central American-Americans, Latinidad, and the politics of dislocation -- Epilogue: La Bestia and beyond: migration and the politics of mourning. 650 0 $a Central American Americans $x Ethnic identity. 650 0 $a Central Americans $z United States $x Social life and customs. 650 0 $a Hispanic Americans $x Ethnic identity. 650 7 $a Hispanic Americans $x Ethnic identity. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00957556 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 650 7 $a HISTORY / United States / General. $2 bisacsh 830 0 $a Latinidad. 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191214013613.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20180802014406.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=926347C4961911E8A89F3E0097128E48 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search