Book Talk: “Citizenship Excess: Latino/as, Media, and the Nation”

Join us when Hector Amaya, associate professor of media studies at University of Virginia, discusses his new book, Citizenship Excess: Latino/as, Media, and the Nation (NYU Press, 2013).

In the new century we have seen an increase in the presence of Latinos in public culture, but we have also seen the rise of anti-Latino nativism. Today, nativist policies like Arizona’s SB 1070 are everywhere, in many states, counties, and cities. This radicalization of politics is not the result of citizens behaving badly. Rather, it is the logical and predictable outcome of a political culture constituted around the principles of nativist excess. This political culture, which is partly constituted through media, enables the accumulation of political capital by ethnic majorities and disables ethnic minorities such as Latinos from using and accumulating political capital. This talk will discuss the 2006 pro-immigration reform rallies, the media practices that gave life to these marches, and how the process of political capital accumulation affects minoritarian and majoritarian media systems.  

Books will be available for purchase at this event.

This event is FREE.

Watch the video of this event here.