U n i v e r s a l C i t i z e n s h i p

B o r d e r H i s p a n i s m sJon Beasley- Murray, Alberto Moreiras, and

Gareth Williams, series editors

U N I V E R S A LC I T I Z E N S H I P

Latina/o Studies at the Limits of Identity

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R. Andrés Guzmán

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Names: Guzmán, R. Andrés (Ricardo Andrés), author.Title: Universal citizenship : Latina/o studies at the limits of identity / R. Andrés

Guzmán.Other titles: Border Hispanisms.Description: First edition. | Austin : University of Texas Press, 2019. | Series:

Border Hispanisms | Includes bibliographical references and index.Identifiers: LCCN 2018012489 | ISBN 978-1-4773-1762-4 (cloth : alk. paper) |

ISBN 978-1-4773-1763-1 (pbk. : alk. paper) | ISBN 978-1-4773-1764-8 (library e-book) | ISBN 978-1-4773-1765-5 (nonlibrary e-book)

Subjects: LCSH: World citizenship. | Group identity. | Identity politics. | Immigration enforcement.

Classification: LCC JZ1320.4 .G89 2019 | DDC 323.6—dc23LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018012489

doi:10.7560/317624

For Michael Thor, the real superhero

Acknowledgments | ix

Introduction: Universal Citizenship at the Limits of Nature and Culture | 1

1. Cause and Consistency: The Democratic Act, Universal Citizenship, and Nation | 23

2. Ethnics of the Real: HB 2281 and the Alien(ated) Subject | 57

3. Criminalization at the Edge of the Evental Site: Migrant “Illegality,” Universal Citizenship, and the 2006 Immigration Marches | 96

4. Oscar “Zeta” Acosta and Generic Politics: At the Margins of Identity and Law | 128

5. Between Crowd and Group: Fantasy, Revolutionary Nation, and the Politics of the Not- All | 157

Notes | 193Bibliography | 239

Index | 257

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