Embodied Economies: Diaspora and Transcultural Capital in Latinx Caribbean Fiction and Theater

(Part of the Latinidad Series)

by Israel Reyes

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How do upwardly mobile Latinx Caribbean migrants leverage their cultural heritage to buy into the American Dream? In the neoliberal economy of the United States, the discourse of white nationalism compels upwardly mobile immigrants to trade in their ties to ethnic and linguistic communities to assimilate to the dominant culture. For Latinx Caribbean immigrants, exiles, and refugees this means abandoning Spanish, rejecting forms of communal inter-dependence,...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1978827857

ISBN13:9781978827851

Release Date:May 2022

Publisher:Rutgers University Press

Length:252 Pages

Weight:0.70 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"

Age Range:18 years and up

Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher

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