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Race Class

Race Class

Arellano, José Antonio

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Series: Elements in Race in American Literature and Culture

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 100942954X
ISBN13: 9781009429542
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Jan 8 2026
Pages: 80
Weight: 0.26
Height: 0.17 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Race Class identifies two competing aesthetics, the 'recognitional' and the 'redistributive, ' that developed in Mexican American literature during the 1980s. Recognitional literature seeks to express an ethnic identity via a circular narratological discourse of self-creation. This expressive view of literature fosters readerly sympathy via testimony and textual personification, the author argues, but ultimately forecloses interpretive judgement. Redistributive literature instead averts the readers' sympathy to produce the evaluative distance through which interpretative judgement and structural critique are enabled. By tracking these competing aesthetics, Race Class shows why the Chicano Movement should not be understood as a working-class enterprise, why higher education cannot be a mechanism of social justice, and why the left continues to misunderstand the nature of economic inequality today.

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