Making Hispanics How Activists, Bureaucrats, and Media Constructed a New American

Name: Making Hispanics How Activists, Bureaucrats, and Media Constructed a New American
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ISBN: 9780226033839

ISBN-10: 022603383X

ISBN-13: 9780226033839

Edition: 2014

Authors: G. Cristina Mora

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How did Puerto Ricans, Mexicans, and Cubans become known as Hispanics” and Latinos” in the United States? How did several distinct cultures and nationalities become portrayed as one? Cristina Mora answers both these questions and details the scope of this phenomenon in Making Hispanics. She uses an organizational lens and traces how activists, bureaucrats, and media executives in the 1970s and 80s created a new identity categoryand by doing so, permanently changed the racial and political landscape of the nation.Some argue that these cultures are fundamentally similar and that the Spanish language is a natural basis for a unified Hispanic identity. But Mora shows very clearly that the…

Book details

List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 3/7/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 0.59" wide x 0.90" long x 0.06" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English

G. Cristina Mora is assistant professor of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley.