{"product_id":"citizenship-excess-9780814724132","title":"Citizenship Excess","description":"\u003cp\u003e“Drawing on the Athenian tradition of ‘wielding citizenship as a  weapon to defend a contingently defined polis,’ Hector Amaya has crafted  an elegant and sophisticated analysis of the contemporary policies  designed to contain and criminalize Latina\/os.  Citizenship Excess demonstrates that he is one of the leading Latina\/o Media Scholars today.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e —Angharad N. Valdivia, General Editor of the International Encyclopedia of Media Studies and author of Latina\/os\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing on contemporary conflicts between Latino\/as and anti-immigrant forces, Citizenship Excess  illustrates the limitations of liberalism as expressed through U.S.  media channels. Inspired by Latin American critical scholarship on the  “coloniality of power,” Amaya demonstrates that nativists use the  privileges associated with citizenship to accumulate power.  That power  is deployed to aggressively shape politics, culture, and the law,  effectively undermining Latino\/as who are marked by the ethno-racial and  linguistic difference that nativists love to hate. Yet these social  characteristics present crucial challenges to the political, legal, and  cultural practices that define citizenship.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Amaya  examines the role of ethnicity and language in shaping the mediated  public sphere through cases ranging from the participation of Latino\/as  in the Iraqi war and pro-immigration reform marches to labor laws  restricting Latino\/a participation in English-language media and news  coverage of undocumented immigrant detention centers. Citizenship Excess  demonstrates that the evolution of the idea of citizenship in the  United States and the political and cultural practices that define it  are intricately intertwined with nativism.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hector Amaya","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48273402331387,"sku":"9780814724132","price":36.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/CoreSourceHub_2d85b9ba-b8f6-4cc4-905b-42d74e814512.jpg?v=1777695414","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/citizenship-excess-9780814724132","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}