@article{852326,
      author = {Cardenas, Maritza E.,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/852326},
      title = {Constituting Central American-Americans : transnational  identities and the politics of dislocation /},
      abstract = {"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  Câardenas 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"--},
      recid = {852326},
      pages = {vii, 197 pages ;},
}