Whiteness on the Border: Mapping the US Racial Imagination by Lee Bebout
By Lee Bebout
Illustrating how the ideologies, tales, and pictures of racial hierarchy align with and aid these of fervent US nationalism, Lee Bebout maps the connection among whiteness and American exceptionalism. He examines how renderings of the Mexican different have expressed white worry, and shaped a besieged cohesion in anti-immigrant rhetoric and guidelines. Moreover, Whiteness at the Border elucidates how doubtless confident representations of Mexico and Chicano/as are literally used to augment investments in white American goodness and vague platforms of racial inequality. Whiteness at the Border pushes readers to contemplate how the racial common sense of the earlier maintains to thrive within the present.
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