Hostility and Hispandering in 2016: The Demographic and Discursive Power of Latinx Voters

Representations of Latinos in a Democratic Party Campaign in the United States: Identity Ownership, Narratives, and Values

“…Aligned with the latter narrative, Slaughter (2016, 542) analyzes how Latinos used Facebook and Twitter during the presidential elections to create rhetorical spaces for questioning the Latino threat discourse. Further, Anguiano (2016) offers an essay about "the 'hispandering' and racial hostility prevalent in this 2016 political climate" toward Latino communities. Of these three articles, two are essays and only one (Slaughter 2016) is methodologically based on empirical evidence.…”

“…In 2016 the Latino community became highly visible because immigration, as an electoral issue-and not exclusively in outreach to Latinos-was at the center of the national conversation; Donald Trump placed immigration as a central column of his political discourse. The Republican candidate framed Latinos, and immigrants in general, as a threat to the cultural and economic development of the United States (Anguiano 2016;Cisneros 2017, 516;Gross and Cuevas-Molina 2020;Montgomery 2019, 302), and used an "us versus them" rhetoric, as is common in populist campaigns (Aswad 2019, 65). In contrast, Hillary Clinton, as this article will describe, framed immigration as an asset for the economy and framed herself as a defender of minorities.…”

Movilización y participación en Twitter. Estudio de caso del hashtag #SuperTuesday en las primarias presidenciales de EEUU 2016

“…En 2016 los partidos políticos asumieron unas primarias complejas manteniendo esta peculiaridad en todo el proceso electoral hasta las presidenciales; principalmente, por el estilo de discurso que Donald Trump imprimió (Ruthizer et al, 2017;Anguiano, 2016;Hogan, 2016;McAlister, 2016;Powell, 2016;Wilz, 2016). El Partido Republicano llegó al supermartes con una contienda electoral interna de cuatro candidatos: Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio y John Kasich.…”