Homeland av Aaron E. Sanchez

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<p>Ideas defer to no border—least of all the idea of belonging. So where does one belong, and what does belonging even mean, when a border inscribes one’s identity? This dilemma, so critical to the ethnic Mexican community, is at the heart of <em>Homeland</em>, an intellectual, cultural, and literary history of belonging in ethnic Mexican thought through the twentieth century.<br/><br/>Belonging, as Aaron E. Sánchez’s sees it, is an interwoven collection of ideas that defines human connectedness and that shapes the contours of human responsibilities and our obligations to one another. In <em>Homeland</em>, Sánchez traces these ideas of belonging to their global, national, and local origins, and shows how they have transformed over time.<br/><br/>For pragmatic, ideological, and political reasons, ethnic Mexicans have adapted, adopted, and abandoned ideas about belonging as shifting conceptions of citizenship disrupted old and new ways of thinking abou