Making Hispanics: How Activists, Bureaucrats, and Media Constructed a New American
By G. Cristina Mora.
Description
How did Puerto Ricans, Mexicans, and Cubans become known as Hispanics” and Latinos” in the United States? How did several distinct cultures and nationalities become portrayed as one? Cristina Mora answers both these questions and details the scope of this phenomenon in Making Hispanics. She uses an organizational lens and traces how activists, bureaucrats, and media executives in the 1970s and '80s created a new identity categoryand by doing so, permanently changed the racial and political landscape of the nation. Some argue that these cultures are fundamentally sim...
ISBN(s)
022603383X, 9780226033839
