From Threatening Guerrillas to Forever Illegals

From Threatening Guerrillas to Forever Illegals
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Publisher : University of Texas Press
Total Pages : 270
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ISBN-10 : 9781477325292
ISBN-13 : 1477325298
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Book Synopsis From Threatening Guerrillas to Forever Illegals by : Yajaira M. Padilla

Download or read book From Threatening Guerrillas to Forever Illegals written by Yajaira M. Padilla and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2022-06-21 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The experience of Central Americans in the United States is marked by a vicious contradiction. In entertainment and information media, Salvadorans, Guatemalans, Nicaraguans, and Hondurans are hypervisible as threatening guerrillas, MS-13 gangsters, maids, and “forever illegals.” Central Americans are unseen within the broader conception of Latinx community, foreclosing avenues to recognition. Yajaira M. Padilla explores how this regime of visibility and invisibility emerged over the past forty years—bookended by the right-wing presidencies of Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump—and how Central American immigrants and subsequent generations have contested their rhetorical disfiguration. Drawing from popular films and TV, news reporting, and social media, Padilla shows how Central Americans in the United States have been constituted as belonging nowhere, imagined as permanent refugees outside the boundaries of even minority representation. Yet in documentaries about cross-border transit through Mexico, street murals, and other media, US Central Americans have counteracted their exclusion in ways that defy dominant paradigms of citizenship and integration.

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