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Latining America : black-brown passages and the coloring of Latino/a studies /

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With Latining America, Claudia Milian proposes that the economies of blackness, brownness, and dark brownness summon a new grammar for Latino/a studies that she names ""Latinities."" Milian's innovative study argues that this ensnared economy of meaning startles the typical...

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Main Author: Milian, Claudia
Corporate Author: JSTOR (Organization)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Athens : University of Georgia Press, [2013]
Series:New southern studies.
Subjects:
Hispanic Americans > Ethnic identity.
Hispanic Americans > Race identity.
Hispanic Americans > Study and teaching (Higher)
Hispanic Americans > Intellectual life.
Ethnicity in literature.
American literature > Hispanic American authors > History and criticism.
Race > Social aspects > United States.
Cultural pluralism > United States.
United States > Ethnic relations.
United States > Race relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > Hispanic American Studies.
American literature > Hispanic American authors.
Cultural pluralism.
Ethnic relations.
Race relations.
Race > Social aspects.
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:With Latining America, Claudia Milian proposes that the economies of blackness, brownness, and dark brownness summon a new grammar for Latino/a studies that she names ""Latinities."" Milian's innovative study argues that this ensnared economy of meaning startles the typical reading practices deployed for brown Latino/a embodiment. Latining America keeps company with and challenges existent models of Latinidad, demanding a distinct paradigm that puts into question what is understood as Latino and Latina today. Milian conceptually considers how underexplored ""Latin"" participants--the southern.
Physical Description:1 online resource (x, 301 pages) : illustrations.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-288) and index.
ISBN:9780820344799
0820344796
1299950744
9781299950740