Figures of the Future: Latino Civil Rights and the Politics of Demographic Change
Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz, "Figures of the Future: Latino Civil Rights and the Politics of Demographic Change"
English | ISBN: 0691199469 | 2021 | 312 pages | EPUB | 10 MB
English | ISBN: 0691199469 | 2021 | 312 pages | EPUB | 10 MB
An in-depth look at how U.S. Latino advocacy groups are using ethnoracial demographic projections to bring about political change in the present
For years, newspaper headlines, partisan speeches, academic research, and even comedy routines have communicated that the United States is undergoing a profound demographic transformation―one that will purportedly change the “face” of the country in a matter of decades. But the so-called browning of America, sociologist Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz contends, has less to do with the complexion of growing populations than with past and present struggles shaping how demographic trends are popularly imagined and experienced. Offering an original and timely window into these struggles,