{"product_id":"conjured-bodies-queer-racialization-in-contemporary-latinidad-paperback","title":"Conjured Bodies: Queer Racialization in Contemporary Latinidad - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLaura Grappo\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2022 Honorable Mention, John Leo \u0026amp; Dana Heller Award for Best Single Work, Anthology, Multi-Authored, or Edited Book in LGBTQ Studies, Popular Culture Association (PCA) \u003cbr\u003e 2023 Honorable Mention, Outstanding Book, Latinx Studies Section of Latin American Studies Association (LASA) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This study argues that powerful authorities and institutions exploit the ambiguity of Latinidad in ways that obscure inequalities in the United States.\u003cp\u003e Is Latinidad a racial or an ethnic designation? Both? Neither? The increasing recognition of diversity within Latinx communities and the well-known story of shifting census designations have cast doubt on the idea that Latinidad is a race, akin to white or Black. And the mainstream media constantly cover the \"browning\" of the United States, as though the racial character of Latinidad were self-evident. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Many scholars have argued that the uncertainty surrounding Latinidad is emancipatory: by queering race--by upsetting assumptions about categories of human difference--Latinidad destabilizes the architecture of oppression. But Laura Grappo is less sanguine. She draws on case studies including the San Antonio Four (Latinas who were wrongfully accused of child sex abuse); the football star Aaron Hernandez's incarceration and suicide; Lorena Bobbitt, the headline-grabbing Ecuadorian domestic-abuse survivor; and controversies over the racial identities of public Latinx figures to show how media institutions and state authorities deploy the ambiguities of Latinidad in ways that mystify the sources of Latinx political and economic disadvantage. With Latinidad always in a state of flux, it is all too easy for the powerful to conjure whatever phantoms serve their interests. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLaura Grappo is an assistant professor in the American studies department at Wesleyan University.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 312\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.9 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 23, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42158790901895,"sku":"9781477325209","price":51.21,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/bd8e72c16e18f1a0a9a383ab37ecace0.webp?v=1733261580","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/conjured-bodies-queer-racialization-in-contemporary-latinidad-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}