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Race and Identity in Hispanic America - The White, the Black, and the Brown (Hardcover)
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Race and Identity in Hispanic America - The White, the Black, and the Brown (Hardcover)
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This book offers a historical and comparative overview of the
evolution of racial classifications in the United States, Latin
America, and the Caribbean. The Hispanicization of America is
precipitating a paradigm shift in racial thinking in which race is
no longer defined by distinct characteristics but rather is
becoming synonymous with ethnic/cultural identity. Traditionally,
assimilation has been conceived of as a unidirectional and
racialized phenomenon. Newly arrived immigrant groups or
longstanding minority/indigenous populations were "Americanized" in
confining their racial and ethnic natures to the private sphere and
adopting, in the public sphere, the cultural mores, norms, and
values of the dominant cultural/racial group. In contrast, the
Hispanicization of America entails the horizontal assimilation of
various groups from Spanish-speaking countries throughout the
Western Hemisphere and Caribbean into a pan-ethnic, Hispanic/Latino
identity that also challenges the privileged position of whiteness
as the primary and exclusive referent for American identity.
Instead of focusing on one Hispanic group, ethnic identity, or
region, this book chronicles the development of racial identity
across the largest Hispanic groups throughout the United States.
Highlights distinct differences in perceptions of racial identity
for members of the Hispanic community Underscores the fluid and
malleable nature of race through a comparative and historical
review of the evolution of racial classifications Explains why the
Hispanicization of the United States constitutes a paradigm shift
from traditional notions of racial identity formation Documents how
immigration to the United States from Spanish-speaking countries
throughout the Western Hemisphere and Caribbean is creating the
first truly Hispanic country by subsuming the national identities
of immigrants to the pan-ethnic, Hispanic/Latino category
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