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Using work published over the first decade of the twenty-first century by scholars John Beverley and Cristina Beltrán, “The Trouble(s) with Unity” opens the larger discussion by accounting for US latinidad as a demographic, historical, political, and cultural formation, one better characterized by fluidity, heterogeneity, unevenness, and nonidentity than by any more conventional, categorical, essentialist or in any other way fixed identitarian logics.
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Ortiz, R.L. (2019). The Trouble(s) with Unity: Performative Latinidades Between Culture and Politics. In: Latinx Literature Now. Literatures of the Americas. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04708-5_1
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