Overview

For Latinx people living in the United States, Trumpism represented a new phase in the old struggle to achieve a sense of belonging and full citizenship. Throughout their history in the United States, people of Mexican descent have been made to face the question of how they do or do not belong to the American social fabric and polity. Structural inequality, dispossession, and marginalized citizenship make up an old story for Mexican Americans, and this story is a foundational one. This volume situates a new phase of presidential politics in relation to what went before and asks what new political possibilities emerged from this dramatic chapter in our history. What role did anti-Mexicanism and attacks on Latinx people and their communities play in Trump's political rise and presidential practices? Driven by the overwhelming political urgency of the moment, the contributors to this volume seek to frame Trumpism's origins and political effects.

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This is clearly a must-read anthology for scholars of Latinx studies and ethnic studies and for everyone interested in gaining a more nuanced understanding of the consequences of the Trump years, and of Trumpism, for the ongoing struggles of Mexican American, Latinx, and other people of color for inclusion, citizenship, and belonging in US society. - Suzanne Oboler, author or Ethnic Labels, Latino Lives: Identity and Politics of (Re)Presentation in the United States

This is clearly a must-read anthology for scholars of Latinx studies and ethnic studies and for everyone interested in gaining a more nuanced understanding of the consequences of the Trump years, and of Trumpism, for the ongoing struggles of Mexican American, Latinx, and other people of color for inclusion, citizenship, and belonging in US society.--Suzanne Oboler, author or Ethnic Labels, Latino Lives: Identity and Politics of (Re)Presentation in the United States

Author Information

Phillip B. Gonzales is a historical sociologist and a professor emeritus of sociology at the University of New Mexico. His work has focused on the history of Mexican Americans and Mexican American politics in the US Southwest. Renato Rosaldo is a professor emeritus of anthropology at Stanford University and New York University. A cultural anthropologist, he has worked and taught in Southeast Asian studies, symbolic anthropology, cultural studies, and Chicano studies. Mary Louise Pratt is the Olive H. Palmer Professor of Humanities at Stanford University (emerita) and the Silver Professor at New York University (emerita), where she taught in the Departments of Social and Cultural Analysis and Latin American and Iberian Studies.

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