Whiteness on the border : mapping the U.S. racial imagination in Brown and White / Lee Bebout.

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Nation of nations (NYU Press)
Main Author: Bebout, Lee (Author)
Language:English
Published: New York : New York University Press, [2016]
Series:Nation of nations (NYU Press)
Subjects:
Mexican Americans > Race identity.
Mexicans > Race identity > United States.
White people > Race identity > United States.
Mexican Americans in popular culture > United States.
Chicano movement.
Stereotypes (Social psychology)
Racism > United States.
United States > Emigration and immigration > Social aspects.
Mexico > Emigration and immigration > Social aspects.
United States > Race relations.
Physical Description:xx, 267 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Variant Title:
Mapping the U.S. racial imagination in Brown and White
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction: Chicana/o studies and the whiteness problem; or, toward a mapping of whiteness on the border
  • What did they call them after they called them "greasers"? A genealogy and taxonomy of the Mexican other
  • "They are coming to conquer us!" The native Aztlán, and the fears and fantasies of whiteness
  • With friends like these: the supremacist logic of saviorism
  • Deep in the heart of whiteness: white desire and the political potential of love
  • Conclusion: imagining and working toward Gringostroika.