TY  - BOOK
AU  - Riofrio,John D."Rio"
TI  - Continental Shifts: Migration, Representation, and the Struggle for Justice in Latin(o) America 
SN  - 9781477305409
AV  - P94.5.H58 R56 2015
U1  - 305.868/073 23
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - Austin : 
PB  - University of Texas Press, 
KW  - Hispanic Americans -- Ethnic identity
KW  - Hispanic Americans -- Social conditions
KW  - Hispanic Americans in mass media
KW  - Hispanic Americans
KW  - Ethnic identity
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Latin America -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects
KW  - United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; One Hemispheric Latinidades: Migrating Bodies and the Blurred Borders of Latino Identities --; Two Dirty Politics of Representation: Dehumanizing Discourse, Latinidad, and the Struggle for Self-Ascribed Ethnic Identity --; Three Spectacles of Incarceration: Biopolitics, Public Shaming, and the Pornography of Prisons --; Four Latinos in a Post-9/11 Moment: “American” Identity and the Public Latino Body --; Epilogue --; Notes --; Works Cited --; Index; restricted access
N2  - Applying a broad geographical approach to comparative Latino literary and cultural studies, Continental Shifts illuminates how the discursive treatment of Latinos changed dramatically following the enactment of NAFTA—a shift exacerbated by 9/11. While previous studies of immigrant representation have focused on single regions (the US/Mexico border in particular), specific genres (literature vs. political rhetoric), or individual groups, Continental Shifts unites these disparate discussions in a provocative, in-depth examination. Bringing together a wide range of groups and genres, this intercultural study explores novels by Latin American and Latino writers, a border film by Tommy Lee Jones and Guillermo Arriaga, “viral” videos of political speeches, popular television programming (particularly shows that feature incarceration and public shaming), and user-generated YouTube videos. These cultural products reveal the complexity of Latino representations in contemporary discourse. While tropes of Latino migrants as threatening, diseased foreign bodies date back to the nineteenth century, Continental Shifts marks the more pernicious, recent images of Latino laborers (legal and not) in a variety of contemporary media. Using vivid examples, John Riofrio demonstrates the connections between rhetorical and ideological violence and the physical and psychological violence that has more intensely plagued Latino communities in recent decades. Culminating with a consideration of the “American” identity, this eye-opening work ultimately probes the nation’s ongoing struggle to uphold democratic ideals amid dehumanizing multiethnic tension
UR  - https://doi.org/10.7560/303887
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781477305409
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781477305409/original
ER  -