Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-338) and index.
Contents:
Index. 1. The Latin-X factor. -- 2. Mestizaje vs. the hypo-American dream -- 3. The second conquista : mestizaje on the down low -- 4. Raza interrupted : new hybrid nationalisms -- 5. Border thinking 101 : can la raza speak? -- 6. Our raza, ourselves : a racial reenvisioning of twenty-first-century Latinx -- 7. Towards a new raza politics : class awarness and hemispheric vision -- 8. Media, marketing, and the invisible soul of Lainidad -- 9. The Latinx urban space and identity -- 10. Dismantling the master's house : the Latinx imaginary and neoliberal multiculturalism. -- Epilogue: The Latin-X factor. -- Acknowledgments -- A note on sources -- Index.
Summary:
"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, Latin 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.
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