R. AndrÉs GuzmÁn is an assistant professor of Latina/o and Latin American literature and culture at Indiana University.

GuzmÁn’s incisive approach to the role of identity in Latino studies and broader collective group formation offers a timely  intervention that will serve scholars in numerous disciplines across the humanities and social sciences. A compelling read that adds necessary revisions to understandings of undocumentation in Latino studies and of migration more broadly, GuzmÁn’s text offers a nuanced perspective on political action and structural change. By moving in scale from the individual’s relation to the self to the individual’s relationship to broader society, GuzmÁn activates a wide range of methods for cohering the social into radical democratic acts, offering new ways to approach the subject at the limits of identity and the nation-state. (Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies)

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Universal Citizenship at the Limits of Nature and CultureChapter 1. Cause and Consistency: The Democratic Act, Universal Citizenship, and NationChapter 2. Ethnics of the Real: HB 2281 and the Alien(ated) SubjectChapter 3. Criminalization at the Edge of the Evental Site: Migrant “Illegality,” Universal Citizenship, and the 2006 Immigration MarchesChapter 4. Oscar “Zeta” Acosta and Generic Politics: At the Margins of Identity and LawChapter 5. Between Crowd and Group: Fantasy, Revolutionary Nation, and the Politics of the Not-AllNotesBibliographyIndex

R. AndrÉs GuzmÁn is an assistant professor of Latina/o and Latin American literature and culture at Indiana University.

GuzmÁn’s incisive approach to the role of identity in Latino studies and broader collective group formation offers a timely  intervention that will serve scholars in numerous disciplines across the humanities and social sciences. A compelling read that adds necessary revisions to understandings of undocumentation in Latino studies and of migration more broadly, GuzmÁn’s text offers a nuanced perspective on political action and structural change. By moving in scale from the individual’s relation to the self to the individual’s relationship to broader society, GuzmÁn activates a wide range of methods for cohering the social into radical democratic acts, offering new ways to approach the subject at the limits of identity and the nation-state. (Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies)

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Universal Citizenship at the Limits of Nature and CultureChapter 1. Cause and Consistency: The Democratic Act, Universal Citizenship, and NationChapter 2. Ethnics of the Real: HB 2281 and the Alien(ated) SubjectChapter 3. Criminalization at the Edge of the Evental Site: Migrant “Illegality,” Universal Citizenship, and the 2006 Immigration MarchesChapter 4. Oscar “Zeta” Acosta and Generic Politics: At the Margins of Identity and LawChapter 5. Between Crowd and Group: Fantasy, Revolutionary Nation, and the Politics of the Not-AllNotesBibliographyIndex

R. AndrÉs GuzmÁn is an assistant professor of Latina/o and Latin American literature and culture at Indiana University.

GuzmÁn’s incisive approach to the role of identity in Latino studies and broader collective group formation offers a timely  intervention that will serve scholars in numerous disciplines across the humanities and social sciences. A compelling read that adds necessary revisions to understandings of undocumentation in Latino studies and of migration more broadly, GuzmÁn’s text offers a nuanced perspective on political action and structural change. By moving in scale from the individual’s relation to the self to the individual’s relationship to broader society, GuzmÁn activates a wide range of methods for cohering the social into radical democratic acts, offering new ways to approach the subject at the limits of identity and the nation-state. (Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies)

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Universal Citizenship at the Limits of Nature and CultureChapter 1. Cause and Consistency: The Democratic Act, Universal Citizenship, and NationChapter 2. Ethnics of the Real: HB 2281 and the Alien(ated) SubjectChapter 3. Criminalization at the Edge of the Evental Site: Migrant “Illegality,” Universal Citizenship, and the 2006 Immigration MarchesChapter 4. Oscar “Zeta” Acosta and Generic Politics: At the Margins of Identity and LawChapter 5. Between Crowd and Group: Fantasy, Revolutionary Nation, and the Politics of the Not-AllNotesBibliographyIndex