Whiteness on the border : mapping the U.S. racial imagination in Brown and White / Lee Bebout.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bebout, Lee, author.

Series:

Nation of nations (NYU Press)

Nation of nations: immigrant history as American history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mexican Americans--Race identity.

Mexican Americans.

Mexicans--Race identity--United States.

Mexicans.

White people--Race identity--United States.

White people.

White people--Race identity.

Emigration and immigration.

Social aspects.

Mexican Americans in popular culture.

Mexicans--Race identity.

United States.

Mexican Americans in popular culture--United States.

Chicano movement.

Stereotypes (Social psychology).

Racism--United States.

Racism.

United States--Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.

Mexico--Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.

Mexico.

United States--Race relations.

Race relations.

Physical Description:

xx, 267 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Other Title:

Mapping the U.S. racial imagination in Brown and White

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, [2016]

Summary:

Historically, ideas of whiteness and Americanness have been built on the backs of racialized communities. The legacy of anti-Mexican stereotypes stretches back to the early nineteenth century when Anglo-American settlers first came into regular contact with Mexico and Mexicans. The images of the Mexican Other as lawless, exotic, or non-industrious continue to circulate today within U.S. popular and political culture. Through keen analysis of music, film, literature, and U.S. politics, Whiteness on the Border demonstrates how contemporary representations of Mexicans and Chicano/as are pushed further to foster the idea of whiteness as Americanness. Illustrating how the ideologies, stories, and images of racial hierarchy align with and support those of fervent U.S. nationalism, Lee Bebout maps the relationship between whiteness and American exceptionalism. He examines how renderings of the Mexican Other have expressed white fear, and formed a besieged solidarity in anti-immigrant rhetoric and policies. Moreover, Whiteness on the Border elucidates how seemingly positive representations of Mexico and Chicano/as are actually used to reinforce investments in white American goodness and obscure systems of racial inequality. Whiteness on the Border pushes readers to consider how the racial logic of the past continues to thrive in the present. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 What Did They Call Them after They Called Them "Greasers"? A Genealogy and Taxonomy of the Mexican Other 33

2 "They Are Coming to Conquer Us!" The Nativist Aztlán, and the Fears and Fantasies of Whiteness 73

3 With Friends Like These: The Supremacist Logic of Saviorism 107

4 Deep in the Heart of Whiteness: White Desire and the Political Potential of Love 155.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781479885343

1479885347

9781479858538

1479858536

OCLC:

946161294