Latinos in the United States: Mestizo Logics vs. the Black-White Binary?
The more than 60 million inhabitants of the U.S. who fall into the Latino (or “Latinx”) category constitute an excellent laboratory for studying forms of “in-betweenness”, in terms of ethnoracial identity, language and cultural expression, and possibly even politics. In critical dialogue with Ed Mor...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Laboratoire d’Etudes et de Recherches sur le Monde Anglophone (LERMA)
2022-12-01
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| Series: | E-REA |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/erea/15694 |
| Summary: | The more than 60 million inhabitants of the U.S. who fall into the Latino (or “Latinx”) category constitute an excellent laboratory for studying forms of “in-betweenness”, in terms of ethnoracial identity, language and cultural expression, and possibly even politics. In critical dialogue with Ed Morales, author of Latinx: The New Force in American Politics and Culture (2018), this article examines a range of different modes and sites of in-betweenness to be found in the history and the contemporary life of Latinos in the U.S., emphasizing the importance of constantly changing social and historical contexts. |
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| ISSN: | 1638-1718 |