Latining America : black-brown passages and the coloring of Latino/a studies /
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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Format: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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Athens :
University of Georgia Press,
[2013]
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Series: | New southern studies.
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Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
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. |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 301 pages) : illustrations. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-288) and index. |
ISBN: | 9780820344799 0820344796 1299950744 9781299950740 |