Diversity: Mestizos, Latinos and the Promise of Possibilities - Softcover

Rodriguez, Amardo

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0915745925 ISBN 13: 9780915745920

Publisher: Floricanto Pr, 2007

Synopsis

This book is about the hope that resides in brown, the color of creation. It defines brown ideologically rather than racially. That is, brown is about peoples who are increasingly defying the borders of ethnicity, nationality, sexuality, and race that limit imagination and possibility through various anxieties, insecurities, and paranoia that make us afraid of the world's ambiguity, mystery, and complexity and, in so doing, make us afraid of our differences. It is about peoples who are of borderlands-conceptual, communicational, relational, communal, theoretical, and cultural spaces, such as Spanglish and Ozomatli, which are devoted to possibility. Thus in a world where too many believe in a coming clash of civilizations and that Latino immigration poses the most serious threat to the prosperity of the U.S., this book introduces and expounds on various theoretical notions that make for new visions of the world and ultimately new ways of being the world.

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About the Author

Rodriguez is associate professor of communication and rhetorical studies at Syracuse University.

About this edition

• Publisher: Floricanto Pr
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0915745925
• ISBN 13: 9780915745920
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 150