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Latino Heartland - Of Borders and Belonging in the Midwest (Hardcover)
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Latino Heartland - Of Borders and Belonging in the Midwest (Hardcover)
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National immigration debates have thrust both opponents of
immigration and immigrant rights supporters into the news. But what
happens once the rallies end and the banners come down? What is
daily life like for Latinos who have been presented nationally as
"terrorists, drug smugglers, alien gangs, and violent criminals"?
Latino Heartland offers an ethnography of the Latino and non-Latino
residents of a small Indiana town, showing how national debate
pitted neighbor against neighbor-and the strategies some used to
combat such animosity. It conveys the lived impact of divisive
political rhetoric on immigration and how race, gender, class, and
ethnicity inform community belonging in the twenty-first century.
Latino Heartland illuminates how community membership was
determined yet simultaneously re-made by those struggling to widen
the scope of who was imagined as a legitimate resident citizen of
this Midwestern space. The volume draws on interviews with
Latinos-both new immigrants and long-standing U.S. citizens-and
whites, as well as African Americans, to provide a sense of the
racial dynamics in play as immigrants asserted their right to
belong to the community. Latino Hoosiers asserted a right to
redefine what belonging meant within their homes, at their spaces
of worship, and in the public eye. Through daily acts of ethnic
belonging, Spanish-speaking residents navigated their own sense of
community that did not require that they abandon their difference
just to be accepted. In Latino Heartland, Sujey Vega addresses the
politics of immigration, showing us how increasingly diverse towns
can work toward embracing their complexity.
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