Confirmed: Sonia Sotomayor and Latino Political Incorporation

This essay explores how the 2009 confirmation of Judge Sonia Sotomayor once again transformed the process to become a Supreme Court Justice as new political fault lines reached the nation’s highest court. Although the majority of political supporters emphasized Sotomayor’s individual and professional qualifications as the crucial factors that made her confirmable, what ultimately became confirmed through her appointment was the increasing, if uncomfortable, weight of Latino identity as a relevant category of social difference in contemporary American politics. This essay engages with the confirmation process’s discarded and expanded plotlines to produce an acceptable story, in order to understand Sotomayor’s appointment not simply as the culmination of Latino achievement or collective empowerment but as a way to assess the current price of the ticket for Latino political incorporation

El trasero de Jennifer López

La explosión de visibilidad y consumo que siguió al asesinato de la cantante mexicano-americana Selena otorgó un nuevo sentido de optimismo y autoestima a los latinos. Y fue Jennifer López ¿protagonista de la película sobre la vida de Selena y dueña también de un gran trasero¿ quien adquirió verdadera conciencia del rol de su cuerpo como identificación cultural panlatina. El artículo ensaya una epistemología de la retaguardia para analizar el lugar de Jennifer (y de Selena) como emblema de la mujer latina revalorizada y, al mismo tiempo, como agente perturbador de los cánones estéticos y culturales estadounidenses

Confirmed: Sonia Sotomayor and Latino Political Incorporation

This essay explores how the 2009 confirmation of Judge Sonia Sotomayor once again transformed the process to become a Supreme Court Justice as new political fault lines reached the nation’s highest court. Although the majority of political supporters emphasized Sotomayor’s individual and professional qualifications as the crucial factors that made her confirmable, what ultimately became confirmed through her appointment was the increasing, if uncomfortable, weight of Latino identity as a relevant category of social difference in contemporary American politics. This essay engages with the confirmation process’s discarded and expanded plotlines to produce an acceptable story, in order to understand Sotomayor’s appointment not simply as the culmination of Latino achievement or collective empowerment but as a way to assess the current price of the ticket for Latino political incorporation

Confirmed: Sonia Sotomayor and Latino Political Incorporation

This essay explores how the 2009 confirmation of Judge Sonia Sotomayor once again transformed the process to become a Supreme Court Justice as new political fault lines reached the nation’s highest court. Although the majority of political supporters emphasized Sotomayor’s individual and professional qualifications as the crucial factors that made her confirmable, what ultimately became confirmed through her appointment was the increasing, if uncomfortable, weight of Latino identity as a relevant category of social difference in contemporary American politics. This essay engages with the confirmation process’s discarded and expanded plotlines to produce an acceptable story, in order to understand Sotomayor’s appointment not simply as the culmination of Latino achievement or collective empowerment but as a way to assess the current price of the ticket for Latino political incorporation

En busca de la "Ana Veldford" de Lourdes Casal: exilio, sexualidad y cubanía

En busca de la "Ana Veldford" de Lourdes Casal: exilio, sexualidad y cubaní