@article{463144,
      recid = {463144},
      author = {Beltrán, Cristina.},
      title = {The trouble with unity : Latino politics and the creation  of identity /},
      publisher = {Oxford University Press,},
      address = {Oxford ;},
      pages = {xi, 226 p. ;},
      year = {2010},
      abstract = {Over the past decade, much attention has been given to  examining the growing political influence of Latinos in the  United States in order to define the so-called "Latino  vote." The existence of a coherent, pan-ethnic Latino  political agenda is, as this book shows, not only highly  debatable, but democratically unviable. Situated at the  intersection of political theory and Latino studies, The  Trouble with Unity is a nuanced critique of civic Latinidad  and the Latino electoral and protest politics that work to  erase diversity and debate in favor of images of  commonality. Cristina Beltrán looks at key moments in U.S.  Latino political history through the lenses of political,  feminist, and cultural thought to provide a theoretically  driven account of the many ways in which Latinos lay claim  to the public realm. In its innovative approach to the  realities of Latino protest politics, The Trouble with  Unity advances both social movement and democratic  political theory.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/463144},
}