{"product_id":"continental-shifts-9781477305423","title":"Continental Shifts","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Riofrio engages wide swaths of popular culture and literary criticism, using them as a prism for understanding contemporary historical events and public policy.\" * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\"...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 *\u003cbr\u003e\"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…\u003ci\u003eContinental Shifts\u003c\/i\u003e 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 *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1. Hemispheric Latinidades: Migrating Bodies and the Blurred Borders of Latino Identities\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e2. Dirty Politics of Representation: Dehumanizing Discourse, Latinidad, and the Struggle for Self-Ascribed Ethnic Identity\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e3. Spectacles of Incarceration: Biopolitics, Public Shaming, and the Pornography of Prisons\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e4. Latinos in a Post-9\/11 Moment: “American” Identity and the Public Latino Body\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEpilogue\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNotes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWorks Cited\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIndex\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408942604631,"sku":"9781477305423","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781477305423.jpg?v=1730504796","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/continental-shifts-9781477305423","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}