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

by Israel Reyes

Book Overview

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"