From Threatening Guerrillas to Forever Illegals: US Central Americans and the Cultural Politics of Non-Belonging

by Yajaira M. Padilla

The experience of Central Americans in the United States is marked by a vicious contradiction. In entertainment and information media, Salvadorans, Guatemalans, Nicaraguans, and Hondurans are hypervisible as threatening guerrillas, MS-13 gangsters, maids, and "forever illegals." Central Americans are unseen within the broader conception of Latinx community, foreclosing avenues to recognition. Yajaira M. Padilla explores how this regime of visibility...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1477325263
• ISBN13: 9781477325261
• Release Date: June 2022
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 249 Pages