From Threatening Guerrillas to Forever Illegals : : US Central Americans and the Cultural Politics of Non-Belonging / / Yajaira M. Padilla.
The experience of Central Americans in the United States is marked by a vicious contradiction. In entertainment and information media, Salvadorans, Guatemalans, Nicaraguans, and Hondurans are hypervisible as threatening guerrillas, MS-13 gangsters, maids, and “forever illegals.” Central Americans ar...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2022] ©2022 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Latinx: The Future Is Now
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (249 p.) :; 11 b&w photos |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Central Americans among “US”
- Chapter One. Signifying US Central American Non- belonging
- Chapter Two. Domesticated Subject? The Salvadoran Maid in US Television and Film
- Chapter Three. Lance Corporal José Gutiérrez and the Perils of Being a “Good Immigrant”
- Chapter Four. Central American Crossings, Rightlessness, and Survival in Mexico’s Border Passage
- Chapter Five. The Cachet of Illegal Chickens in Central American Los Angeles
- Conclusion. Seeing beyond the Dominant
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index