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873608
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Beltrán, Cristina.
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| Title & Author
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The trouble with unity : : Latino politics and the creation of identity /\ Cristina Beltrán.
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| Publication Statement
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Oxford ;New York :: Oxford University Press,, 2010.
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xi, 226 pages ;; 24 cm
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0195375904
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: 0195375912
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: 9780195375909
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: 9780195375916
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-215) and index.
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| Contents
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Introduction: Sleeping giants and demographic floods : Latinos and the politics of emergence -- El pueblo unido : visions of unity in the Chicano and Puerto Rican movements -- The incomplete and agonistic "we" : reading Latinidad into democratic theory -- "The bacchanalia of the political" : Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the dream of Latino identification -- From identification to representation : civic Latinidad and the making of the "Latino vote" -- Labor, action, and the space of appearance : immigrant embodiment and the problem of freedom -- Conclusion: Latino is a verb : democracy, Latinidad, and the creation of the political.
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Over the past decade, much attention has been given to examining the growing political influence of Latinos in the United States in order to define the so-called "Latino vote." The existence of a coherent, pan-ethnic Latino political agenda is, as this book shows, not only highly debatable, but democratically unviable. Situated at the intersection of political theory and Latino studies, The Trouble with Unity is a nuanced critique of civic Latinidad and the Latino electoral and protest politics that work to erase diversity and debate in favor of images of commonality. Cristina Beltrán looks at key moments in U.S. Latino political history through the lenses of political, feminist, and cultural thought to provide a theoretically driven account of the many ways in which Latinos lay claim to the public realm. In its innovative approach to the realities of Latino protest politics, The Trouble with Unity advances both social movement and democratic political theory.
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Hispanic Americans-- Civil rights.
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Hispanic Americans-- Ethnic identity.
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Hispanic Americans-- Politics and government.
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Political participation-- United States.
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Power (Social sciences)-- United States.
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Voting-- United States.
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Ethnizität.
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Hispanic Americans-- Civil rights.
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Hispanic Americans-- Ethnic identity.
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Hispanic Americans-- Politics and government.
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Kulturelle Identität.
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Latina.
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Latinamerikaner-- Förenta staterna.
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Macht.
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Political participation.
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Politische Beteiligung.
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Politiskt deltagande-- Förenta staterna.
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Power (Social sciences)
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Voting.
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Wahl.
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United States.
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USA.
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| Dewey Classification
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973/.0468
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E184.S75B45 2010
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