Latinx - Ed Morales

Latinx

The New Force in American Politics and Culture

(Autor)

Buch | Hardcover
368 Seiten
2018
Verso Books (Verlag)
978-1-78478-319-8 (ISBN)
24,90 inkl. MwSt
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, 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.

Ed Morales is an author, journalist, filmmaker, and poet who teaches at Columbia University. He is the author of The Latin Beat and Living in Spanglish. He has written for the Village Voice, Nation, New York Times, Rolling Stone, and other publications and is a regular commentator on NPR. His film Whose Barrio? premiered at the New York Latino International Film Festival. He lives in New York City.

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 140 x 210 mm
Gewicht 571 g
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie Volkskunde
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Allgemeines / Lexika
ISBN-10 1-78478-319-6 / 1784783196
ISBN-13 978-1-78478-319-8 / 9781784783198
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