Research Catalog

Title

Hispanic nation : culture, politics, and the constructing of identity / Geoffrey Fox.

Author

Fox, Geoffrey E.

Publication

New York : Carol Pub., c1996.

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Details

Description

viii, 264 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

"A new ethnic identity is being constructed in the United States: the Hispanic nation. Overcoming age-old racial, regional, and political differences, Americans of Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, and other Spanish-language origins are beginning to imagine themselves as a single ethnic community - which by the turn of the century may become the United States' largest and most influential minority." "Only in recent years have great numbers of Hispanics begun to consider themselves as related within a single culture. Hispanics are redefining their own images and agendas, shaping a population, and paving wider pathways to power. In the process, they are changing both themselves and the culture, government, and urban habits of the communities around them. In this ground-breaking book, Geoffrey Fox shows how and why Hispanics are changing the United States." "Based on interviews, observations, and extensive research, Hispanic Nation examines why such diverse people are imagining themselves as one; the politics of turning a statistical fiction into a social reality; the impact of the Spanish-language media on Hispanics' self-images; ethnic consciousness and political movements (Cesar Chavez and the farm workers movement, the Young Lords and La Raza Unida, Puerto Rican and Mexican encounters in the Midwest); controversies surrounding "high" and popular Hispanic/Latino art, music, and literature; and the institutionalization of the movement everywhere - from local school boards to the U.S. Congress."--Jacket.

Subject

• Politics
• Hispanic Americans > Ethnic identity
• Hispanic Americans > Politics and government
• Hispanic or Latino > ethnology
• Cultural Characteristics
• United States

Note

• "A Birch Lane Press book."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-256) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Imagining a nation -- Counting -- The image machine -- The peoples within the image -- Coming together -- Forging the national agenda -- Image makers -- American identities.

ISBN

1559723114 (hardcover)

LCCN

^^^95004696^

OCLC

• 32627365
• SCSB-13425827

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library