{"product_id":"from-threatening-guerrillas-to-forever-illegals-us-central-americans-and-the-cultural-politics-of-non-belonging-hardback-9781477325261","title":"From Threatening Guerrillas to Forever Illegals; US Central Americans and the Cultural Politics of Non-Belonging (Hardback) 9781477325261","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eFrom Threatening Guerrillas to Forever Illegals\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eUS Central Americans and the Cultural Politics of Non-Belonging\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eYajaira M. Padilla (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781477325261, University of Texas Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 21 June 2022\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e249 pages, 11 b\u0026amp;w photos\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2 cm, 0.454 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eFrom Threatening Guerrillas to Forever Illegals\u003c\/i\u003e is a pivotal book for the fields of Central American, Latinx, and American studies. Padilla's deft analyses not only elucidate how US hegemonic representations congeal with juridical-political practices to perpetually disenfranchise (US) Central Americans but also powerfully illustrate the ways this community formation produces counternarratives that contest its exclusion.\u003c\/div\u003e— Maritza Cárdenas, University of Arizona, author of Constituting Central American–Americans: Transnational Identities and the Politics of Dislocation\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eFrom Threatening Guerrillas to Forever Illegals\u003c\/i\u003e, Padilla skillfully curates what she terms a regime of hegemonic representations of Central Americans in everything from presidential communication to films and novels. From the 1980s to the present day, she argues, Central American immigrants have been represented as existential threats to the United States, and through her concept of non-belonging, Padilla makes visible the signification processes that both symbolically and materially marginalize Central Americans so thoroughly that many can inhabit the neoliberal \"good immigrant\" role only in death. Non-belonging, however, also leaves space for counternarratives that resist neoliberal rules. This is an important read for scholars in Central American studies, Latinx studies, visual studies, and literary studies.\u003c\/div\u003e— Leisy Abrego, UCLA, author of Sacrificing Families: Navigating Laws, Labor, and Love Across Borders\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eA well-researched, poignant discussion of the representations, misrepresentations, and erasures of the expanding Central American and Latinx communities in the US. [Padilla's] work seamlessly illustrates the significance and consequences of these representations, or lack thereof...Recommended.\u003c\/div\u003e— CHOICE\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eYajaira 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  Introduction: Central Americans among \"US\"\u003cbr\u003e  Chapter 1. Signifying US Central American Non-belonging\u003cbr\u003e  Chapter 2. Domesticated Subject? The Salvadoran Maid in US Television and Film\u003cbr\u003e  Chapter 3. Lance Corporal José Gutiérrez and the Perils of Being a \"Good Immigrant\"\u003cbr\u003e  Chapter 4. Central American Crossings, Rightlessness, and Survival in Mexico's Border Passage\u003cbr\u003e  Chapter 5. The Cachet of Illegal Chickens in Central American Los Angeles\u003cbr\u003e  Conclusion: Seeing beyond the Dominant\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  Notes\u003cbr\u003e  Works Cited\u003cbr\u003e  Index\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52590968275224,"sku":"9781477325261","price":55.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/from-threatening-guerrillas-to-forever-illegals-us-central-americans-and-the-cultural-politics-of-non-belonging-hardback-9781477325261","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}