Discussion of Building Walls: Excluding Latin People in the United States by Ernesto Castaneda

In this discussion (Building Walls: Excluding Latin People in the United States – Author Meets Critics), scholars discuss the book Building Walls: Excluding Latin People in the United States, where Ernesto Castañeda and co-authors draw upon multiple data sources (including original survey and archival data, interviews, photovoice, media and online content analysis, ethnographic observation, and in-depth interviews) to describe how and why Latin people are portrayed as a threat to U.S. society, culture, and economy and as continual outsiders even after being in the country for generations. Castañeda formulates a theory that works at three different levels to create social boundaries that exclude and racialize Latin people in the United States in a manner that the resulting inequalities seem normal and justified. 

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