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Citizenship excess : Latinas/os, media, and the nation / Hector Amaya.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Amaya, Hector, author.
- Series:
- Critical cultural communication
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hispanic Americans.
- Latin Americans--United States.
- Latin Americans.
- Mass media and immigrants.
- Hispanic Americans and mass media.
- United States.
- Citizenship--United States.
- Citizenship.
- Hispanic Americans and mass media--Political aspects.
- Mass media and immigrants--Political aspects.
- Racism--United States.
- Racism.
- United States--Emigration and immigration--Government policy.
- Emigration and immigration.
- Government policy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix, 274 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New York University Press, 2013.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Drawing on contemporary conflicts between Latino/as and anti-immigrant forces, Citizenship Excess illustrates the limitations of liberalism as expressed through U.S. media channels. Inspired by Latin American critical scholarship on the "coloniality of power," Amaya demonstrates that nativists use the privileges associated with citizenship to accumulate power. That power is deployed to aggressively shape politics, culture, and the law, effectively undermining Latino/as who are marked by the ethno-racial and linguistic difference that nativists love to hate. Yet these social characteristics present crucial challenges to the political, legal, and cultural practices that define citizenship. Amaya examines the role of ethnicity and language in shaping the mediated public sphere through cases ranging from the participation of Latino/as in the Iraqi war and pro-immigration reform marches to labor laws restricting Latino/a participation in English-language media and news coverage of undocumented immigrant detention centers. Citizenship Excess demonstrates that the evolution of the idea of citizenship in the United States and the political and cultural practices that define it are intricately intertwined with nativism. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- pt. 1. Defending the walls
- part 2. Conditions of inclusion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
- OCLC:
- 846982304
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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