Description
Threatening Others: Nicaraguans and the Formation of National Identities in Costa Rica explores the representation of the Nicaraguan other” in the Costa Rican imagery. It also seeks to address more usually why the sense of national belonging constitutes a the most important identification in contemporary societies. Interdisciplinary and based on extensive fieldwork, it looks critically at the exceptionalism” that Costa Ricans take as a right and view as part of their national identity.
Carlos Sandoval-García argues that Nicaraguan immigrants, once perceived as a communist threat,” are now sufferers of an invigorated, racialized politics in which the Nicaraguan nationality has grow to be an offense in itself.
Threatening Others is a deeply searching book in an effort to interest scholars and students in Latin American studies and politics, cultural studies, and ethnic studies.