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Third Edition

LISA GARCÍA BEDOLLA AND CHRISTIAN HOSAM

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Copyright © Lisa García Bedolla and Christian Hosam 2021

The right of Lisa García Bedolla and Christian Hosam to be identified as Authors of this Work has been asserted in accordance with the UK Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

First edition published in 2009 by Polity Press

Second edition published in 2014 by Polity Press

This third edition published in 2021 by Polity Press

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ISBN-13: 978-1-5095-3775-4

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Names: García Bedolla, Lisa, 1969- author. | Hosam, Christian, author.

Title: Latino politics / Lisa García Bedolla and Christian Hosam.

Description: Third edition. | Cambridge, UK ; Medford, MA : Polity Press, 2021. | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Summary: “Fully revised third edition of this essential introduction to Latino politics in America”-- Provided by publisher.

Identifiers: LCCN 2020021159 (print) | LCCN 2020021160 (ebook) | ISBN 9781509537730 (hardback) | ISBN 9781509537747 (paperback) | ISBN 9781509537754 (epub)

Subjects: LCSH: Hispanic Americans--Politics and government. | Hispanic Americans--Economic conditions. | Hispanic Americans--Social conditions. | Immigrants--United States. | Political participation--United States. | United States--Race relations--Political aspects. | United States--Ethnic relations--Political aspects. | United States--Politics and government. | United States--Foreign relations.

Classification: LCC E184.S75 G369 2021 (print) | LCC E184.S75 (ebook) | DDC 305.868/073--dc23

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Reading my 2013 preface, I feel that I was both naive and overly optimistic, despite my claim that things were difficult then. Being a person of color in the United States requires quotidian optimism – a belief you reaffirm daily that today people will be their best selves and that historical and present-day inequities will not affect how you are able to move through the world. For me, that belief was deeply shaken when Donald Trump was elected President of the United States in 2016. At that moment, I felt the racist and sexist vicissitudes of the United States were laid bare, to an extent I found difficult to face.

My feelings were driven, in large part, by how my daughter Micaela (the child whose existence is coterminous with this book) experienced that political moment. In 2015, when we were watching the Republican debates and candidate Trump disparaged Mexicans, Micaela asked me, “Mami, is he talking about us?” (I am Cuban American and my husband was born in Mexico). I had to answer, “ Sí, mi amor , he is talking about us.” That exchange led a group of her then-2nd-grade friends having a conversation on the playground to decide who would “get to stay” if Trump became President. Her all-female group included her, a 2.5-generation Latina, a 2.5-generation South Asian, a 2nd-generation Swede, and two US-born white Americans. After intense conversation, the group decided that my daughter and the south Asian girl would have to “go.” The phenotypically white Swede, even though she was no more “American” than those two girls, would be able to stay. Even at the age of 7 in “liberal” Berkeley, our children understood the US racial hierarchy.