{"product_id":"from-threatening-guerrillas-to-forever-illegals-9781477325261","title":"From Threatening Guerrillas to Forever Illegals","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe experience of Central Americans in the United States is marked by a vicious contradiction. In entertainment and information media, Salvadorans, Guatemalans, Nicaraguans, and Hondurans are hypervisible as threatening guerrillas, MS-13 gangsters, maids, and forever illegals. Central Americans are unseen within the broader conception of Latinx community, foreclosing avenues to recognition.   Yajaira M. Padilla explores how this regime of visibility and invisibility emerged over the past forty yearsbookended by the right-wing presidencies of Ronald Reagan and Donald Trumpand how Central American immigrants and subsequent generations have contested their rhetorical disfiguration. Drawing from popular films and TV, news reporting, and social media, Padilla shows how Central Americans in the United States have been constituted as belonging nowhere, imagined as permanent refugees outside the boundaries of even minority representation. Yet in documentaries about cross-border transit through\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA well-researched, poignant discussion of the representations, misrepresentations, and erasures of the expanding Central American and Latinx communities in the US. [Padilla's] work seamlessly illustrates the significance and consequences of these representations, or lack thereof...Recommended. * CHOICE *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Central Americans among “US”\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. Signifying US Central American Non-belonging\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. Domesticated Subject? The Salvadoran Maid in US Television and Film\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. Lance Corporal José Gutiérrez and the Perils of Being a “Good Immigrant”\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. Central American Crossings, Rightlessness, and Survival in Mexico’s Border Passage\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. The Cachet of Illegal Chickens in Central American Los Angeles\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: Seeing beyond the Dominant\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Works Cited\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408961511767,"sku":"9781477325261","price":66.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781477325261.jpg?v=1730504873","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/from-threatening-guerrillas-to-forever-illegals-9781477325261","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}