Citizenship Excess : Latino/as, Media, and the Nation / Hector Amaya.
2013
E184.S75 A43 2016
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Title
Citizenship Excess : Latino/as, Media, and the Nation / Hector Amaya.
Author
Amaya, Hector, author.
ISBN
9780814723838
Published
New York, NY : : New York University Press, [2013]
Copyright
©2013
Language
English
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In English.
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1 online resource
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10.18574/nyu/9780814708453.001.0001 doi
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E184.S75 A43 2016
Dewey Decimal Classification
305.868073
Summary
Drawing on contemporary conflicts between Latino/as and anti-immigrant forces, Citizenship Excess illustrates the limitations of liberalism as expressed through U.S. media channels. Inspired by Latin American critical scholarship on the "coloniality of power," Amaya demonstrates that nativists use the privileges associated with citizenship to accumulate power. That power is deployed to aggressively shape politics, culture, and the law, effectively undermining Latino/as who are marked by the ethno-racial and linguistic difference that nativists love to hate. Yet these social characteristics present crucial challenges to the political, legal, and cultural practices that define citizenship. Amaya examines the role of ethnicity and language in shaping the mediated public sphere through cases ranging from the participation of Latino/as in the Iraqi war and pro-immigration reform marches to labor laws restricting Latino/a participation in English-language media and news coverage of undocumented immigrant detention centers. Citizenship Excess demonstrates that the evolution of the idea of citizenship in the United States and the political and cultural practices that define it are intricately intertwined with nativism.
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Critical Cultural Communication ; ; 29
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Table of Contents
Frontmatter
Contents
Preface and Acknowledgments
Part I. Defending the Walls
1. Toward a Latino Critique of Public Sphere Theory
2. Nativism and the 2006 Pro-Immigration Reform Rallies
3. Hutto: Staging Transnational Justice Claims in the Time of Coloniality
4. English- and Spanish-Language Media
Part II. Conditions of Inclusion
5. Labor and the Legal Structuring of Media Industries in the Case of Ugly Betty (ABC, 2006)
6. Mediating Belonging, Inclusion, and Death
Conclusion: The Ethics of Nation
Notes
References
Index
About the Author
Contents
Preface and Acknowledgments
Part I. Defending the Walls
1. Toward a Latino Critique of Public Sphere Theory
2. Nativism and the 2006 Pro-Immigration Reform Rallies
3. Hutto: Staging Transnational Justice Claims in the Time of Coloniality
4. English- and Spanish-Language Media
Part II. Conditions of Inclusion
5. Labor and the Legal Structuring of Media Industries in the Case of Ugly Betty (ABC, 2006)
6. Mediating Belonging, Inclusion, and Death
Conclusion: The Ethics of Nation
Notes
References
Index
About the Author