Inventing Latinos av Laura E. Gomez

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<p><strong>An NPR Best Book of the Year, exploring the impact of Latinos’ new collective racial identity on the way Americans understand race, with a new afterword by the author</strong><br></p>
<p>Who are Latinos and where do they fit in America’s racial order? In this “timely and important examination of Latinx identity” (<em>Ms.</em>), Laura E. Gómez, a leading critical race scholar, argues that it is only recently that Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, Cubans, Dominicans, Central Americans, and others are seeing themselves (and being seen by others) under the banner of a cohesive <em>racial</em> identity. And the catalyst for this emergent identity, she argues, has been the ferocity of anti-Latino racism.</p>
<p>In what <em>Booklist</em> calls “an incisive study of history, complex interrogation of racial construction, and sophisticated legal argument,” Gómez “packs a knockout punch” (<em>Publishers Weekly</em>), ill