Description
Book SynopsisA timely, hemispheric examination of the post-NAFTA shift in US discourse surrounding Latinos, which has created dehumanizing representations that equate Latinos with animals and criminals, and of the ways in which Latino cultural producers contest these
Trade Review"Riofrio engages wide swaths of popular culture and literary criticism, using them as a prism for understanding contemporary historical events and public policy." * Choice *
"...critically ambitious, highly readable, and furiously passionate. The book indeed provides an exciting contribution to Inter-American studies, Latino Studies, literary and cultural studies, but truly triumphs in the way it models ethically grounded and publicly directed scholarly work." * Symploke *
"Both ambitious and comprehensive in scope, this book sheds new light on the discursive racism found in twenty-first-century media forms that has prepared the way for recent anti-immigrant movements…
Continental Shifts presents a timely critique of the post-9/11 criminalization of Latinx people. It is a compelling study of how discursive racism and challenging racism affects the experience of being Latinx in the US, as well as Latin American perceptions of that experience." * Journal of American Studies *
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Hemispheric Latinidades: Migrating Bodies and the Blurred Borders of Latino Identities
- 2. Dirty Politics of Representation: Dehumanizing Discourse, Latinidad, and the Struggle for Self-Ascribed Ethnic Identity
- 3. Spectacles of Incarceration: Biopolitics, Public Shaming, and the Pornography of Prisons
- 4. Latinos in a Post-9/11 Moment: “American” Identity and the Public Latino Body
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
