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Latining America : Black-Brown passages and the coloring of Latino/a studies / Claudia Milian.
LIBRA E184.S75 M545 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Milian, Claudia.
- Series:
- New southern studies
- The new southern studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hispanic Americans--Ethnic identity.
- Hispanic Americans.
- Hispanic Americans--Race identity.
- Hispanic Americans--Study and teaching (Higher).
- Hispanic Americans--Intellectual life.
- Ethnicity in literature.
- American literature--Hispanic American authors--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- American literature--Hispanic American authors.
- Race--Social aspects--United States.
- Race.
- Cultural pluralism--United States.
- Cultural pluralism.
- Race--Social aspects.
- United States.
- United States--Ethnic relations.
- Ethnic relations.
- United States--Race relations.
- Race relations.
- Physical Description:
- x, 301 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Athens : University of Georgia Press, [2013]
- Summary:
- With Latining America, Claudia Milian proposes that the economies of blackness, brownness, and dark brownness summon a new grammar for Latino/a studies that she names "Latinities." Milian's innovative study argues that this ensnared economy of meaning startles the typical reading practices deployed for brown Latino/a embodiment.
- Latining America keeps company with and challenges existent models of Latinidad, demanding a distinct paradigm that puts into question what is understood as Latino and Latina today. Milian conceptually considers how underexplored "Latin" participants- the southern, the black, the dark brown, the Central American-have ushered in a new world of "Latined" signification from the 1920s to the present.
- Examining not who but what constitutes the Latino and Latina, Milian's new critical Latinities disentangle the brown logic that marks "Latino/a" subjects. She expands on and deepens insights in transamerican discourses, narratives of passing, popular culture, and contemporary art. This daring and original project uncovers previously ignored and unremarked upon cultural connections and global crossings whereby African Americans and Latinos traverse and reconfigure their racialized classifications. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Introduction: The Copiousness of Latin
- Southern Latinities
- Passing Latinities
- Indigent Latinities
- Disorienting Latinities
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780820344355
- 0820344354
- 9780820344362
- 0820344362
- OCLC:
- 792884090
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