The Rise of the Latino Vote : : A History / / Benjamin Francis-Fallon.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
• VerfasserIn: Francis-Fallon, Benjamin,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (448 p.)

Francis-Fallon returns to the origins of the U.S. “Spanish-speaking vote” to understand the history and potential of this political bloc. He finds that individual voters affiliate more with their particular ethnic communities than with the pan-ethnic Latino identity created for them, complicating th...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Introduction
• 1. The Many Political Communities of Latino America
• 2. Viva Kennedy and the Nationalization of “Latin American” Politics
• 3. Civil Rights and the Recognition of a “National Minority”
• 4. Becoming Spanish-Speaking, Becoming Spanish Origin
• 5. Mastering the “Spanish-Speaking Concept”
• 6. Liberal Democrats and the Meanings of “Unidos”
• 7. The “Brown Mafia” and Middle-Class Spanish-Speaking Politics in 1972
• 8. The “Impossible Dream” of the Hispanic Republican Movement
• 9. Securing Representation in a Multicultural Democracy
• 10. Latino Liberalism in an Era of Limits
• 11. The “New Hispanic Conservatives”
• Epilogue
• Notes
• Acknowledgments
• Index