Whiteness on the Border: Mapping the U.S. Racial Imagination in Brown and White

by Lee Bebout

Book Overview

The many lenses of racism through which the white imagination sees Mexicans and Chicanos

Historically, ideas of whiteness and Americanness have been built on the backs of racialized communities. The legacy of anti-Mexican stereotypes stretches back to the early nineteenth century when Anglo-American settlers first came into regular contact with Mexico and Mexicans. The images of the Mexican Other as lawless, exotic, or non-industrious...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1479858536
• ISBN13: 9781479858538
• Release Date: December 2016
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 5.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"