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Citizenship excess : Latinas/os, media, and the nation / Hector Amaya.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Critical cultural communicationPublisher: New York : New York University Press, [2013]Description: 1 online resource (ix, 274 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0814723837
  • 9780814723838
  • 9780814724170
  • 0814724175
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Citizenship excess.DDC classification:
  • 305.868/073 23
LOC classification:
  • E184.S75 A43 2013eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction : Latinas/os and citizenship excess -- Towards a Latino critique of public sphere theory -- Nativism and the 2006 pro-immigration reform rallies -- Hutto : staging transnational justice claims in the time of coloniality -- English- and Spanish-language media -- Labor and the legal structuring of media industries in the case of Ugly Betty (ABC, 2006) -- Mediating belonging, inclusion, and death -- Conclusion : the ethics of nation.
Summary: Drawing on the Athenian tradition of "wielding citizenship as a weapon to defend a contingently defined polis," the author has crafted an elegant and sophisticated analysis of the contemporary policies designed to contain and criminalize Latina/os. Drawing on contemporary conflicts between Latino/as and anti-immigrant forces, the book illustrates the limitations of liberalism as expressed through U.S. media channels. Inspired by Latin American critical scholarship on the "coloniality of power," the author 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. This book 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
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : Latinas/os and citizenship excess -- Towards a Latino critique of public sphere theory -- Nativism and the 2006 pro-immigration reform rallies -- Hutto : staging transnational justice claims in the time of coloniality -- English- and Spanish-language media -- Labor and the legal structuring of media industries in the case of Ugly Betty (ABC, 2006) -- Mediating belonging, inclusion, and death -- Conclusion : the ethics of nation.

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Drawing on the Athenian tradition of "wielding citizenship as a weapon to defend a contingently defined polis," the author has crafted an elegant and sophisticated analysis of the contemporary policies designed to contain and criminalize Latina/os. Drawing on contemporary conflicts between Latino/as and anti-immigrant forces, the book illustrates the limitations of liberalism as expressed through U.S. media channels. Inspired by Latin American critical scholarship on the "coloniality of power," the author 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. This book 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

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