The trouble with unity Latino politics and the creation of identity / Cristina Beltr©Łn.

Contents Introduction: Sleeping giants and demographic floods : Latinos and the politics of emergence -- El pueblo unido : visions of unity in the Chicano and Puerto Rican movements -- The incomplete and agonistic "we" : reading Latinidad into democratic theory -- "The bacchanalia of the political" : Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the dream of Latino identification -- From identification to representation : civic Latinidad and the making of the "Latino vote" -- Labor, action, and the space of appearance : immigrant embodiment and the problem of freedom -- Conclusion: Latino is a verb : democracy, Latinidad, and the creation of the political.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [201]-215) and index.
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LCCN 2009047289
ISBN9780195375909 (alk. paper)
ISBN9780195375916 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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