Whiteness on the Border: Mapping the U.S. Racial Imagination in Brown and White - Brossura

Bebout, Lee

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1479858536 ISBN 13: 9781479858538

Casa editrice: New York Univ Pr, 2016

Riassunto

The many lenses of racism through which the white imagination sees Mexicans and Chicanos

Historically, ideas of whiteness and Americanness have been built on the backs of racialized communities. The legacy of anti-Mexican stereotypes stretches back to the early nineteenth century when Anglo-American settlers first came into regular contact with Mexico and Mexicans. The images of the Mexican Other as lawless, exotic, or non-industrious continue to circulate today within US popular and political culture. Through keen analysis of music, film, literature, and US politics, Whiteness on the Border demonstrates how contemporary representations of Mexicans and Chicano/as are pushed further to foster the idea of whiteness as Americanness.

Illustrating how the ideologies, stories, and images of racial hierarchy align with and support those of fervent US nationalism, Lee Bebout maps the relationship between whiteness and American exceptionalism. He examines how renderings of the Mexican Other have expressed white fear, and formed a besieged solidarity in anti-immigrant rhetoric and policies. Moreover, Whiteness on the Border elucidates how seemingly positive representations of Mexico and Chicano/as are actually used to reinforce investments in white American goodness and obscure systems of racial inequality. Whiteness on the Border pushes readers to consider how the racial logic of the past continues to thrive in the present.

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Lee Bebout is Professor of English at Arizona State University where he is affiliated with the School of Transborder Studies and the Program in American Studies. He is the author of Mythohistorical Interventions: The Chicano Movement and Its Legacies (2011) and Whiteness on the Border: Mapping the US Racial Imagination in Brown and White (2016).

Lee Bebout is Professor of English at Arizona State University. Bebout teaches on and researches in the areas of race, social justice, and political culture. He is also the author of Whiteness on the Border: Mapping the US Racial Imagination in Brown and White

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: New York Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1479858536
• ISBN 13: 9781479858538
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 267
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile