Latining America Black-Brown Passages and the Coloring of Latino/a Studies / Claudia Milian.
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TextPublisher: University of Georgia Press, Description: 1 online resource (318 p.)ISBN: 9780820344362Subject(s): Social Science / Ethnic Studies / American / Hispanic American Studies | Social sciencesGenre/Form: Electronic books.Online resources: View this content on Open Research Library. Summary: Claudia Milian proposes that the economies of blackness, brownness, and dark brownness summon a new grammar for Latino/a studies that she names “Latinities.â€_x009d_ Milian argues that this ensnared economy of meaning startles the typical reading practices deployed for brown Latino/a embodiment. Latining America keeps company with and challenges existent models of Latinidad, demanding a distinct paradigm that puts into question what is understood as Latino and Latina today. Milian conceptually considers how underexplored “Latinâ€_x009d_ participantsâ€"the southern, the black, the dark brown, the Central Americanâ€"have ushered in a new world of “Latinedâ€_x009d_ signification from the 1920s to the present.
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Claudia Milian proposes that the economies of blackness, brownness, and dark brownness summon a new grammar for Latino/a studies that she names “Latinities.â€_x009d_ Milian argues that this ensnared economy of meaning startles the typical reading practices deployed for brown Latino/a embodiment. Latining America keeps company with and challenges existent models of Latinidad, demanding a distinct paradigm that puts into question what is understood as Latino and Latina today. Milian conceptually considers how underexplored “Latinâ€_x009d_ participantsâ€"the southern, the black, the dark brown, the Central Americanâ€"have ushered in a new world of “Latinedâ€_x009d_ signification from the 1920s to the present.
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