Latino crossings : Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, and the politics of race and citizenship /

Latino crossings : Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, and the politics of race and citizenship /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	De Genova, Nicholas.
Imprint:	New York : Routledge, 2003.
Description:	1 online resource (ix, 257 pages) : map
Language:	English
Subject:	Mexican Americans -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Social conditions. Puerto Ricans -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Social conditions. Hispanic Americans -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Social conditions. Mexican Americans -- Race identity -- Illinois -- Chicago. Puerto Ricans -- Race identity -- Illinois -- Chicago. Intergroup relations -- Illinois -- Chicago. Citizenship -- Social aspects -- Illinois -- Chicago. Citizenship -- Social aspects. Hispanic Americans -- Social conditions. Intergroup relations. Mexican Americans -- Race identity. Mexican Americans -- Social conditions. Puerto Ricans -- Social conditions. Race relations. Chicago (Ill.) -- Race relations. Illinois -- Chicago. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12010955

Hidden Bibliographic Details
Other authors / contributors:	Ramos-Zayas, Ana Y.
ISBN:	0203644522 9780203644522 9780415934565 0415934567 0415934575 9780415934572 9786610176939 6610176930 9781135952372 113595237X 9781135952327 1135952329 9781135952365 1135952361 1280176938 9781280176937
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-245) and index. English. Print version record.
Summary:	Despite being combined in census data, there are divisions between Mexicans and Puerto Ricans in the United States. This book examines how constructions of Latino self and otherness interact with America's white/black racial consciousness.
Other form:	Print version: De Genova, Nicholas. Latino crossings. New York : Routledge, 2003 0415934567 0415934575
Standard no.:	9786610176939 (electronic bk.)

Table of Contents:

Introduction : Latino crossings
"Latino" locations : the politics of space in Chicago
Economies of dignity : ideologies of work and worth
Performing deservingness : "Civility" and "Modernity" in conflict
Familiar apparitions : gender and ideologies of the family
Latino languages, mixed signals
Latino rehearsals : divergent articulations of Latinidad
Conclusion : Latino futures?