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Making Sense of Latin American Immigrant Experiences in the United States

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 September 2022

Gail Mummert
Gail Mummert*
Affiliation:
El Colegio de Michoacán
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Latin American Research Review , Volume 45 , Issue 1 , 2010 , pp. 244 - 255
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References

1. Renato Rosaldo, Culture and Truth: The Remaking of Social Analysis (Boston: Beacon Press, 1989); Aihwa Ong, Flexible Citizenship: The Cultural Logic of Transnationality (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1999). See also George Yúdice, The Expediency of Culture: Uses of Culture in the Global Era (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2003), chap. 1.

2. Benedict R. O'G. Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (London: Verso, 1983).