Gang Nation: Delinquent Citizens in Puerto Rican, Chicano, and Chicana NarrativesU of Minnesota Press, 2002 - 212 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة xix
... Mexican Americans , of having to say the pledge of allegiance to the United States flag . An African American high school junior told the story of being pulled over by the cops and harassed , for no apparent reason beyond his skin color ...
... Mexican Americans , of having to say the pledge of allegiance to the United States flag . An African American high school junior told the story of being pulled over by the cops and harassed , for no apparent reason beyond his skin color ...
الصفحة xxv
... us that , excluded in mul- tiple ways , the citizen - subjects turn to other locations for community identification ... Mexican American communities and within gang culture as a response , if only partially , to marginal citizen- ship ...
... us that , excluded in mul- tiple ways , the citizen - subjects turn to other locations for community identification ... Mexican American communities and within gang culture as a response , if only partially , to marginal citizen- ship ...
الصفحة xxix
... Mexican American George Sanchez delineates the unique and conflicted position of Mexicanos and Chicanos in East LA in the early 1900s through World War II . In competition with the pressure for Mexicans to assimilate and adopt a loyal ...
... Mexican American George Sanchez delineates the unique and conflicted position of Mexicanos and Chicanos in East LA in the early 1900s through World War II . In competition with the pressure for Mexicans to assimilate and adopt a loyal ...
الصفحة xxxii
... U.S. nationalisms . I also briefly analyze Thomas's Savior , Savior , Hold My Hand ( 1972 ) , his follow - up to Down ... Mexican American citizens dur- ing World War II , violating the civil rights of the pachuco youth in- volved in the ...
... U.S. nationalisms . I also briefly analyze Thomas's Savior , Savior , Hold My Hand ( 1972 ) , his follow - up to Down ... Mexican American citizens dur- ing World War II , violating the civil rights of the pachuco youth in- volved in the ...
الصفحة xxxiv
... U.S. national- ism as well as the cause and effects of sexism within Chicano culture . Thus , I contend , while these narratives do embed a critique of the state , specifically the legal apparatus that oppresses those of Mexican descent ...
... U.S. national- ism as well as the cause and effects of sexism within Chicano culture . Thus , I contend , while these narratives do embed a critique of the state , specifically the legal apparatus that oppresses those of Mexican descent ...
المحتوى
Im Puerto Rican I Was Born Here Negotiating Race and National Identity in Puerto Rican Literature | 3 |
East Side Story Chicanoa Urban Myth and History | 38 |
American She Gendering Gangs | 83 |
Inside and Outside the Gang Nation | 126 |
Notes | 165 |
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عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
Angeles argues autobiographical barrio become behavior boys Carlito Cecilia Chicano Chicano/a Chucha citizens citizenship cops crime criminal critique culture's Cynthia McFadden delinquent dominant drugs Durán East Side Stories ethnic father feel female gang members fight gang mem gang membership gang narratives gender girl gang Harlem Hinojosa homeboys homegirls identity interview Jokie Joseph Rodríguez kids King Tone La Vida Loca Latin Kings Latino/a gang literature Lucía Luis Valdez male gang Manny Mara Maria Hinojosa McFadden Mean Streets Mexican American Mike Mona mother nationalist novel Nuyorican pachuco Piri Thomas Piri's police political Press PrimeTime Live Puerto Rican Puerto Rican literature racial racism relationship representation role Ruiz Ruiz's Savior says servicemen sexual social Spanish Harlem street gangs symbolic texts Thomas's tion Torres U.S. nationalism United urban gang Valdez vatos victims Vida Loca violence women writes York young youth Zoot Suit Riots
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الصفحة xxxi - Republic, conformably with what is stipulated in the preceding article, shall be incorporated into the Union of the United States, and be admitted at the proper time (to be judged of by the Congress of the United States) to the enjoyment of all the rights of citizens of the United States, according to the principles of the Constitution; and in the mean time shall be maintained and protected in the free enjoyment of their liberty and property, and secured in the free exercise of their religion without...
الصفحة xxvii - I mean the whole range from the right to a modicum of economic welfare and security to the right to share to the full in the social heritage and to live the life of a civilized being according to the standards prevailing in the society.
الصفحة xix - criminal' — the racialized figure of the criminal — has come to represent the most menacing enemy of 'American society.' Virtually anything is acceptable — torture, brutality, vast expenditures of public funds — as long as it is done in the name of public safety. Racism has always found an easy route from its embeddedness in social structures to the psyches of collectives and individuals precisely because it mobilizes deep fears.
الصفحة xxix - the order of discursive practices whose reign within a national space . . . transforms individuals into subjects of a collectively held history. Its traditional icons, its metaphors, its heroes, its rituals, and its narratives provide an alphabet for a collective consciousness or national subjectivity; through the National Symbolic, the historical nation aspires to achieve the inevitability of the status of natural law, a birthright.