Latino Crossings: Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, and the Politics of Race and Citizenship

ISBN-13: 9780415934572 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 268 str.

Nicholas de Genova; N. De Genova; Nicholas De Genova

Opis

Despite being lumped together by census data, there are deep divisions between Mexicans and Puerto Ricans living in the United States. Mexicans see Puerto Ricans as deceptive, disagreeable, nervous, rude, violent and dangerous, while Puerto Ricans see Mexicans as submissive, gullible, naive and folksy. The distinctly different styles of Spanish each group speaks reinforces racialized class differences. Despite these antagonistic divisions, these two groups do show some form of Latinidad, or a shared sense of Latin American identity. This study examines how these constructions of Latino self and otherness interact with America's dominant white/black racial consciousness.

Spis treści

Chapter OneIntroduction: Latino CrossingsChapter TwoLatino Locations: The Politics of Space in ChicagoChapter ThreeEconomies of Dignity: Ideologies of Work and WorthChapter FourPerforming Deservingness: Civility and Modernity in ConflictChapter FiveFamiliar Apparitions: Gender and Ideologies of the FamilyChapter SixLatino Languages, Mixed SignalsChapter SevenLatino Rehearsals: Divergent Articulations of LatinidadChapter EightConclusion: Latino Futures

O autorze

Nicholas P. De Genova is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology and the Program in Latino Studies at Columbia University.

Ana Yolanda Ramos-Zayas is Assistant Professor in the Departments of Anthropology and Hispanic Caribbean Studies at Rutgers University.