Scales of Captivity : : Racial Capitalism and the Latinx Child.

• Author: Brady, Mary Pat.
• Place / Publishing House: Durham : : Duke University Press,, 2022.; Ã2022.
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (313 pages)

Mary Pat Brady traces the figure of the captive and cast-off child over 150 years of Latinx/Chicanx literature as a critique of colonial modernity and the forms of confinement that underpin racialized citizenship.

Table of Contents

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. The Scalar Lien -- 1. Captivating Ties: On Children without Childhoods -- 2. Plausible Deniability: Pursuing the Traces of Captivity -- 3. Submerged Captivities: Moving toward Queer Horizontality -- 4. N + 1: Sex and the Hypervisible (Invisible) Migrant -- 5. Misplaced: Peopling a Deportation Imaginary -- Conclusion. Density's Resistance to Scale -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.