From Threatening Guerrillas to Forever Illegals
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From Threatening Guerrillas to Forever Illegals

US Central Americans and the Cultural Politics of Non-Belonging

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From Threatening Guerrillas to Forever Illegals

US Central Americans and the Cultural Politics of Non-Belonging

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The experience of Central Americans in the United States is marked by a vicious contradiction. In entertainment and information media, Salvadorans, Guatemalans, Nicaraguans, and Hondurans are hypervisible as threatening guerrillas, MS-13 gangsters, maids, and "forever illegals." Central Americans are unseen within the broader conception of Latinx community, foreclosing avenues to recognition.

Yajaira M. Padilla explores how this regime of visibility and invisibility emerged over the past forty years—bookended by the right-wing presidencies of Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump—and how Central American immigrants and subsequent generations have contested their rhetorical disfiguration. Drawing from popular films and TV, news reporting, and social media, Padilla shows how Central Americans in the United States have been constituted as belonging nowhere, imagined as permanent refugees outside the boundaries of even minority representation. Yet in documentaries about cross-border transit through Mexico, street murals, and other media, US Central Americans have counteracted their exclusion in ways that defy dominant paradigms of citizenship and integration.

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Publisher
University of Texas Press
Year
2022
ISBN
9781477325292
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Sociology
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Series Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Introduction: Central Americans among “US”
  9. Chapter One. Signifying US Central American Non-belonging
  10. Chapter Two. Domesticated Subject? The Salvadoran Maid in US Television and Film
  11. Chapter Three. Lance Corporal JosĂ© GutiĂ©rrez and the Perils of Being a “Good Immigrant”
  12. Chapter Four. Central American Crossings, Rightlessness, and Survival in Mexico’s Border Passage
  13. Chapter Five. The Cachet of Illegal Chickens in Central American Los Angeles
  14. Conclusion: Seeing beyond the Dominant
  15. Notes
  16. Works Cited
  17. Index