INVESTIGADORES
MATO Daniel Alejandro
artículos
Título:
On the Making of Transnational Identities in the Age of Globalization: The U.S. Latina/o‑´Latin´American Case
Autor/es:
DANIEL MATO
Revista:
Cultural Studies
Editorial:
Routledge Publishers
Referencias:
Lugar: Londres; Año: 1998 vol. 12 p. 598 - 620
ISSN:
0950-2386
Resumen:
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are being produced and circulated by multiple social actors. The development
of representations of this transnational identity does not have any particular
pre-assigned meaning. Speculations about whether it may result in
being more or less strategically beneficial are also taking place, but for
whom? and how? become the obvious questions. The overall argument
presented in this article may be summarized as follows. Identities are not
legacies passively received but representations socially produced, and in
this sense matters of social dispute. The case under discussion presents
particular dimensions in connection with both the context of the present
age of globalization and the histories of the US and the different Latin
American countries. Every and each collective identity construction highlights
assumed similarities while obscuring presumed differences that at
times may become more or less significant. Current representations of a
US Latina/o identity as well as of a Latin American identity and of an allencompassing
transnational US Latina/oLatin American identity entail
images that, according to several social actors representations, obscure
differences that are significant. The existence of assertions of difference
does not invalidate per se any social practices based upon representations of
a US Latina/oLatin American identity. Nevertheless, the existence of
these assertions of difference makes it unavoidable to think that these identity
representations by means of those representations of difference, be
they related to race, ethnicity, class or socioeconomic status, gender, sexual
orientation, local experiences, international and transnational relations of
domination, or any other relations of power.