Latino peoples in the new America : racialization and resistance
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Latino peoples in the new America : racialization and resistance
(New critical viewpoints on society series)
Routledge, 2019
- : pbk
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
"Latinos" are the largest group among Americans of color. At 59 million, they constitute nearly a fifth of the US population. Their number has alarmed many in government, other mainstream institutions, and the nativist right who fear the white-majority US they have known is disappearing. During the 2016 US election and after, Donald Trump has played on these fears, embracing xenophobic messages vilifying many Latin American immigrants as rapists, drug smugglers, or "gang bangers." Many share such nativist desires to build enhanced border walls and create immigration restrictions to keep Latinos of various backgrounds out. Many whites' racist framing has also cast native-born Latinos, their language, and culture in an unfavorable light.
Trump and his followers' attacks provide a peek at the complex phenomenon of the racialization of US Latinos. This volume explores an array of racialization's manifestations, including white mob violence, profiling by law enforcement, political disenfranchisement, whitewashed reinterpretations of Latino history and culture, and depictions of "good Latinos" as racially subservient. But subservience has never marked the Latino community, and this book includes pointed discussions of Latino resistance to racism. Additionally, the book's scope goes beyond the United States, revealing how Latinos are racialized in yet other societies.
Table of Contents
List of Contributors. Acknowledgments. Introduction. Part I Racial Oppression: Historical and Contemporary Patterns. 1. Linchamientos: Mob Violence against Persons of Mexican Descent in the United States. 2. All Means at Its Disposal to Limit Latino Political Power: The White Supremacy Political Agenda at the Beginning of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries. 3. How a Showboat Sheriff Institutionalized Racially Profiling Latinos in Arizona. 4. "Pro-Latino" Racial Framing: How White Employers Justify their Exploitation of Latino Laborers. Part II Hemispheric and Global Racialization. 5. The Racialization of Dominicans in the United States and Switzerland. 6. Racial Nationalisms in the US Territory of Puerto Rico. Part III Surviving and Countering Racial Oppression. 7. What I Want to Pass onto the Children: How Latinos Talk about Race and Culture. 8. A Guiding Text for Latino Racial Identity Research and Theory. 9. Racialization and Strategies of Resistance among Undocumented Latino Young Adults in the United States.10. White Supremacy, Racial Epistemologies, and the Creation of the Tejano Monument in Austin, Texas. 11. The Latino Future in the US: A Latina Political Scientist's Perspective on the Importance of Descriptive Representation
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