From Threatening Guerrillas to Forever Illegals - US Central Americans and the Cultural Politics of Non-Belonging (Paperback)

The 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 years-bookended by the right-wing presidencies of Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump-and 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 Mexico, street murals, and other media, US Central Americans have counteracted their exclusion in ways that defy dominant paradigms of citizenship and integration.

General

Imprint:	University Of Texas Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Latinx: The Future Is Now
Release date:	June 2022
First published:	2022
Authors:	Yajaira M. Padilla
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	249
ISBN-13:	978-1-4773-2527-8
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > Media studies Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Population & demography > Immigration & emigration Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Promotions
LSN:	1-4773-2527-1
Barcode:	9781477325278

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