The Trouble with Unity

The first external review of The Trouble with Unity. From the April 2011 issue of Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries: "Beltrán (Haverford College) argues that many scholars assume that Latinos share a common consciousness, but this assumption creates problems for adequately studying the Latino role in US culture and politics.… Beltrán champions an agonistic public sphere and a politics of representation ('Latino Is a Verb') over identification. She concludes with a sophisticated analysis of social justice in the Latino community instead of a flawed equation of political agreement with identity. This book is useful for general readership and all undergraduate work on Latino studies in the US. Summing Up: Recommended. General readers and undergraduate students."