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Conjured Bodies
2022
Overview
Is Latinidad a racial or an ethnic designation? Both? Neither?
The increasing recognition of diversity within Latinx communities
and the well-known story of shifting census designations have cast
doubt on the idea that Latinidad is a race, akin to white or Black.
And the mainstream media constantly cover the \"browning\" of the
United States, as though the racial character of Latinidad were
self-evident.
Many scholars have argued that the uncertainty surrounding
Latinidad is emancipatory: by queering race-by upsetting
assumptions about categories of human difference-Latinidad
destabilizes the architecture of oppression. But Laura Grappo is
less sanguine. She draws on case studies including the San Antonio
Four (Latinas who were wrongfully accused of child sex abuse); the
football star Aaron Hernandez's incarceration and suicide; Lorena
Bobbitt, the headline-grabbing Ecuadorian domestic-abuse survivor;
and controversies over the racial identities of public Latinx
figures to show how media institutions and state authorities deploy
the ambiguities of Latinidad in ways that mystify the sources of
Latinx political and economic disadvantage. With Latinidad always
in a state of flux, it is all too easy for the powerful to conjure
whatever phantoms serve their interests.
Publisher
University of Texas Press
Subject
ISBN
1477325190, 9781477325193, 9781477325209, 9781477325216, 1477325212, 1477325204
