The Latinx Files: Race, Migration, and Space Aliens

by Matthew David Goodwin

Book Overview

In science fiction and popular culture, Latinxs and Latinx immigrants are often correlated with invading space aliens. At times serious, at other times a farce, this correlation is typically meant in a derogatory way to portray Latinxs as foreign and threatening the nation. In The Latinx Files, Matthew David Goodwin traces how Latinx science fiction writers are reclaiming the space alien from its xenophobic legacy in the science fiction genre...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1978815107
• ISBN13: 9781978815100
• Release Date: May 2021
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 166 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher