{"id":56927,"date":"2018-10-14T01:26:43","date_gmt":"2018-10-14T01:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=56927"},"modified":"2018-10-14T01:27:12","modified_gmt":"2018-10-14T01:27:12","slug":"the-latinx-revolution-in-us-culture-society-and-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=56927","title":{"rendered":"The Latinx revolution in US culture, society, and politics"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Latinx revolution in US culture, society, and politics<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Verso Books<\/a>
\nSeptember 2018
\n368 pages
\nHardback ISBN: 9781784783198
\neBook ISBN: 9781784783204<\/p>\n

Ed Morales<\/strong><\/a>, Adjunct Professor
\nCenter for the Study of Ethnicity and Race
\nColumbia University, New York, New York<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Latinx-1050\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cLatinx<\/a>\u201d (pronounced \u201cLa-teen-ex\u201d) is the gender-neutral term that covers one of the largest and fastest growing minorities in the United States<\/a>, accounting for 17 percent of the country. Over 58 million Americans belong to the category, including a sizable part of the country\u2019s working class, both foreign and native-born. Their political empowerment is altering the balance of forces in a growing number of states. And yet Latinx barely figure in America\u2019s ongoing conversation about race and ethnicity. Remarkably, the US census<\/a> does not even have a racial category for \u201cLatino.\u201d<\/p>\n

In this groundbreaking discussion, Ed Morales explains how Latinx political identities are tied to a long Latin American history of mestizaje<\/em><\/a>\u2014\u201cmixedness\u201d or \u201chybridity\u201d\u2014and that this border thinking is both a key to understanding bilingual, bicultural Latin cultures and politics and a challenge to America\u2019s infamously black\u2013white racial regime. This searching and long-overdue exploration of the meaning of race in American life reimagines Cornel West\u2019s<\/a> bestselling Race Matters<\/em><\/a> with a unique Latinx inflection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In this groundbreaking discussion, Ed Morales explains how Latinx political identities are tied to a long Latin American history of mestizaje\u2014\u201cmixedness\u201d or \u201chybridity\u201d\u2014and that this border thinking is both a key to understanding bilingual, bicultural Latin cultures and politics and a challenge to America\u2019s infamously black\u2013white racial regime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,11,33,14646,8,17,26,20],"tags":[9107,7592],"class_list":["post-56927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-books","category-census","category-latino","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-politics","category-usa","tag-ed-morales","tag-verso-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56927"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56930,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56927\/revisions\/56930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}