Latinx: The New Force in American Politics and Culture

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Latinx (pronounced La-teen-ex) is the gender-neutral term that covers the largest racial minority in the United States, and the poorest but fastest-growing American group, whose political empowerment is altering the balance of forces in a growing number of states. In this groundbreaking discussion, Ed Morales explains how Latinx political identities are tied to a long Latin American history ofmestizaje, translatable as mixedness or hybridity, and that this border thinking is both a key to understanding Latinx cultures and a challenge to Americas infamously blackwhite racial regime.

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In a volume that offers once an survey of histories and contemporary trends of Latinx identity in the United States and a gesture toward a radical political potential predicated on such identity, Morales argues that "the Latinx view of race, inherited from nation-building ideologies that lionized race-mixing in Latin America, poses narratives that challenge and resist" the black-white binary which dominates Anglo-American thinking. -- Spencer Dew * Religious Studies Review; June 2019 *

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Ed Moralesis an author, journalist, filmmaker, and poet who teaches at Columbia University. He is the author ofThe Latin Beatand Living in Spanglish. He has written for theVillage Voice,Nation,New York Times,Rolling Stone, and other publications and is a regular commentator on NPR. His filmWhose Barriopremiered at the New York Latino International Film Festival. He lives in New York City.