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Transforming citizenship

Rocco, Raymond A.

Transforming citizenship democracy, membership, and belonging in Latino communities / [electronic resource] : Raymond A. Rocco. - East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, 2014. - 1 online resource (pages cm.) - Latinos in the United States series . - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Framing the question of citizenship : membership, exclusionary inclusion, and Latinos in the national political imaginary -- Political theory and constructs of membership: difference and belonging in liberal democracies -- Reconceptualizing citizenship : membership, belonging, and the politics of racialization -- Associative citizenship : civil society, rights claims and expanding the public sphere -- Grounded rights claims : contesting membership and transforming citizenship in Latino urban communities -- Critical theory and the politics of solidarity : contradictions, tensions, and potentiality -- Concluding reflections : contesting membership/transforming Latino citizenship.

9781609174187 1609174186


Political participation--United States.
Citizenship--United States.
Hispanic Americans--Ethnic identity.
Hispanic Americans--Politics and government.


Electronic books.

E184.S75 / 635 2014

305.868/073