Description
Book SynopsisThis rich theoretical analysis redefines and relocates the concept of universal citizenship at the revolutionary limits of the nation and identity.
Trade ReviewGuzmán’s incisive approach to the role of identity in Latino studies and broader collective group formation offers a timely intervention that will serve scholars in numerous disciplines across the humanities and social sciences. A compelling read that adds necessary revisions to understandings of undocumentation in Latino studies and of migration more broadly, Guzmán’s text offers a nuanced perspective on political action and structural change. By moving in scale from the individual’s relation to the self to the individual’s relationship to broader society, Guzmán activates a wide range of methods for cohering the social into radical democratic acts, offering new ways to approach the subject at the limits of identity and the nation-state. * Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies *
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Universal Citizenship at the Limits of Nature and Culture
- Chapter 1. Cause and Consistency: The Democratic Act, Universal Citizenship, and Nation
- Chapter 2. Ethnics of the Real: HB 2281 and the Alien(ated) Subject
- Chapter 3. Criminalization at the Edge of the Evental Site: Migrant “Illegality,” Universal Citizenship, and the 2006 Immigration Marches
- Chapter 4. Oscar “Zeta” Acosta and Generic Politics: At the Margins of Identity and Law
- Chapter 5. Between Crowd and Group: Fantasy, Revolutionary Nation, and the Politics of the Not-All
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
