{"product_id":"inventing-latinos-9781620977613","title":"Inventing Latinos","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont color=\"#000000\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003eNamed one of the Best Books of the Year by NPR\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn NPR Best Book of the Year, exploring the impact of Latinos’ new collective racial identity on the way Americans understand race, with a new afterword by the author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cfont color=\"#000000\"\u003eWho are Latinos and where do they fit in America’s racial order? In this “timely and important examination of Latinx identity” (\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cem\u003eMs.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cfont color=\"#000000\"\u003e), Laura E. Gómez, a leading critical race scholar, argues that it is only recently that Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, Cubans, Dominicans, Central Americans, and others are seeing themselves (and being seen by others) under the banner of a cohesive \u003c\/font\u003e\u003cem\u003eracial\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cfont color=\"#000000\"\u003e identity. And the catalyst for this emergent identity, she argues, has been the ferocity of anti-Latino racism.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn what \u003cem\u003eBooklist\u003c\/em\u003e calls “an incisive study of history, complex interrogation of racial construction, and sophisticated legal argument,” Gómez “packs a knockout punch” (\u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e), illuminating for readers the fascinating race-making, unmaking, and re-making processes that Latinos have undergone over time, indelibly changing the way race functions in this country.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\" size=\"2\"\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\" size=\"2\"\u003eBuilding on the “insightful and well-researched” (\u003cem\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/em\u003e) material of the original, the paperback features a new afterword in which the author analyzes results of the 2020 Census, providing brilliant, timely insight about how Latinos have come to self-identify.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Laura E. Gómez","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48284371681531,"sku":"9781620977613","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/CoreSourceHub_4ce8112a-5820-4f9e-80bd-60c842c02b9d.jpg?v=1771410182","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/inventing-latinos-9781620977613","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}