White Latino Privilege: Caribbean Latino Perspectives in the Second Decade of the 21st Century - Paperback

by Gabriel Haslip-Viera (Author)

The contributors to this edited volume by mostly young Millennial and Generation X Caribbean Latinos, who mostly define themselves as non-white or "black," discuss the issue of white Latino privilege as it operates in the United States, the Spanish-speaking Caribbean and the rest of Latino America with a focus on academia, politics, family relations, dating, housing and other areas in addition to advertising, fashion, television, film, marketing and media in general.

Author Biography

Gabriel Hasip-Viera, Editor: is emeritus professor of social history at the City College of the City University of New York. He is the author of Crime and Punishment in Late Colonial Mexico City, 1692-1810 (University of New Mexico Press, 1999), Race, Identity and Indigenous Politics: Puerto Rican Neo-Taínos in the Diaspora and the Island (Latino Studies Press, 2014), Thieves of Civilization: Afrocentric Attempts to Appropriate the Cultural Heritage of Native Americans and Latino Indo-Mestizos in America (Latino Studies Press, 2014) and editor or co-editor of Taíno Revival: Critical Perspectives on Puerto Rican Identity and Cultural Politics (Markus Wiener, 2001), Boricuas in Gotham: Puerto Ricans in the Making of Modern New York City (Markus Wiener, 2004), and Latinos in New York: Communities in Transition, 2nd Revised Edition (University of Notre Dame Press, 2017).