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This chapter argues that the terms “Latinx” and “latinidad” are messy signifiers that allow us to contend with Latinx’s complicated racial history. While the term Latinx continues to be controversial, and scholars such as Tatiana Flores have examined the case for cancelling latinidad, “Racing Latinidad” points to how latinidad can signify particular political commitments and affinities. Through readings of Manuel Muñoz’s What You See in the Dark (2011) and Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa’s Daughters of the Stone (2009), this chapter illuminates how excavating racial histories outside the logic of the state is a way to summon a politics to imagine a people. Within this framework, “Racing Latinidad” ultimately argues for embracing the incoherence of latinidad as term that resists legibility and visibility and thus institutionalization and state management.
ISBN
9781108891189
Publication Date
11-2024
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Disciplines
Central American Studies | Chicana/o Studies | Ethnic Studies | Latin American Studies | Latina/o Studies | Politics and Social Change | Race and Ethnicity
Recommended Citation
Hudson, R. (2024). Racing Latinidad. In J. Ernest (Ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Race and American Literature (pp. 74–87). Cambridge University Press.
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Cambridge University Press
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Central American Studies Commons, Chicana/o Studies Commons, Ethnic Studies Commons, Latin American Studies Commons, Latina/o Studies Commons, Politics and Social Change Commons, Race and Ethnicity Commons
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In John Ernest (Ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Race and American Literature.