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题名/责任者:

Constituting Central American-Americans : transnational identities and the politics of dislocation / Maritza E. Cardenas.

出版发行项:

New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2018]

ISBN:

9780813592824

ISBN:

9780813592831

载体形态项:

vii, 197 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

丛编说明:

Latinidad: transnational cultures in the United States

个人责任者:

Cardenas, Maritza E., author.

论题主题:

Central American Americans-Ethnic identity.

论题主题:

Central Americans-United States-Social life and customs.

论题主题:

Hispanic Americans-Ethnic identity.

中图法分类号:

D771.262

书目附注:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-192) and index.

摘要附注:

"Central Americans are the third largest and fastest growing Latino population in the US. And yet, despite their demographic presence, there has been little scholarship focused on Central Americans in the US. Constituting Central American-Americans is an exploration of the historical and disciplinary conditions that have structured US Central American identity and of the ways in which this identity challenges the way we frame current discussions of Latina/o, American ethnic, and diasporic identities. In focusing on the formation of Central American identity in the U.S., and specifically within the city of Los Angeles, this book challenges us to think about Central America and its diaspora in relation to other US ethno-racial identities. By calling attention to Central America(n) as an important discursive category of analysis, Martiza Cardenas unsettles not only scholarship that promotes the Latina/o dyad but also the binary nature of hemispheric studies that parcels the world into east/west and north/south, which in turn excludes the important role the isthmus has played in global events. In addition, studying Central America and US Central Americans further disrupts US American constructions of seeing this geopolitical space as America's "backyard" (a space outside of the confines of the US political landscape) and Central Americans as peripheral to the American body politic"--

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