商品簡介
"Cristina Beltran's powerful book The Trouble with Unity is timely for our age of Obama in which an ugly anti-immigrant spirit looms large. Don't miss it!"---Cornel West, Princeton University
"In her lucid account of the complexiteis of identity politics, Cristina Beltan analyzes U.S. Latino efforts to forge a unified political community, persuasively arguing that unity-based politics can provide spaces for meaningful political action but too often minimize major differences. The Trouble with Unity is an informative, balanced, and unusually thoughtful contribution."---Rogers M. Smith, Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Univesity of Pennsylvania
"Many have looked at the growth of Latino political identity from a purely empirial perspective. This work, however, tries to understand how Latino-ness is performed and understood in the public sphere, the growth and nature of pan-ethnic identity, and how disparate individuals come together to see themselves as a political interest. Cristina Beltran's book is a work of theory built off of a careful historical examination of practice and is a major contribution."---Gary Segura, Professor of Political Science and Chair of Chicana/o Studies, Stanford Univesity
"This book makes an original and centrally important contribution by using categories of political theory to analyze the ways in which `Latinos' have thought about their political identities. It will become essential reading for those interested in the how political theorists can contribute to the rethinking of race and ethnicity."---Joan Tronto, Professor of Political Theory, Univesity of Minnesora
Over the past Decade, much attention has been given to examining the growing political influence of Latinos in the United States in order to define the so-called book shows, not only highly debatable, but democratically unviable.
Situated at the intersection of political theory and Latino studies, The Trouble with Unity is a nuanced critique of civic Latinidad and the Latino electoral and protest politics that work to erase diversity and debate in favor of images of commonality. Cristina Beltran looks at key moments in U.S. Latino political history through the lenses of political, feminist, and cultural thought to provide a theoretically driven account of the many ways in which Latinos lay claim to the public realm. In its innovative approach to the realities of Latino protest politics, The Trouble with Unity advances both social movement and democratic political theory.
作者簡介
Cristina Beltran is Associate Professor of Political Science at Haverford College.
