Implicit Social Knowledge, Cultural Capital, and "Authenticity" among Puerto Ricans in Chicago

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4500501
AutoresA Y Ramos-Zayas (0000-0001-9742-5555, autor de correspondencia)
Año2004
Volumen31
Número5
Páginas34-56
Fecha de publicación2004-09-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaLatin American Perspectives (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0094-582X • E-ISSN: 1552-678X
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0094582x04268445
OpenAlexW1967735432
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas4
Referencias citadas41

In their countries of origin, Latin American and Caribbean migrants to the United States have been designated by various terms suggesting their cultural impurity. In Venezuela, tabaratos were citizens who migrated to Miami in the midst of the 1970s oil boom because the change from bolivares to dollars favored them and found that everything (es)ta barato (is cheap). Pochos in Mexico, gusanos in Cuba, and, most recently, dominicayork' and brazucos in the Dominican Republic and Brazil, respectively, are terms adopted to create the migrant Others of the nation. Rather than being simple labels, these terms point to the political contexts, economic motivations, and essentialist notions of authenticity of transnational migratory flows. They also suggest the migrants' subsequent Americanization and their evolving relationship with the national territories they have left behind. The creation of national subjects sustains hegemonic notions of authenticity, that is, of gradations of cultural purity and means of distinguishing true national from contaminating hybrids. The creation of social space in which to express belongingness and at the same time define the Other is the effect and practice of the social, political, and historical power relations of the nation. The territory-population relation is naturalized through the power enacted in the carving out of unique national place from variety of material environments and the conceptualization of that place as incomparable, a

Americanization · Conceptualization · Essentialism · Hegemony · Latin Americans · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Population · Power (physics) · Social space · Sociology · Anthropology · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Gender Studies · Latin American and Latino Studies · Law · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy