Latino Influence in the 2016 Presidential Election:

Gross, Justin H.; Cuevas-Molina, Ivelisse

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“…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.…”

Section: The 2016 Presidential Campaign and Latinosmentioning

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

Larrosa-Fuentes

2022

Lat. Am. res. rev.

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In the 2016 United States presidential election, candidates Trump and Clinton embraced the demands of certain social groups and in this way, politically and symbolically, chose to “own” the social identities of these groups. Trump decided to attack the Latino community, while Clinton positioned herself as an advocate for this community. This article presents the results of a social narrative analysis of the values that Clinton and her team used to reach out to Latino communities during the 2016 election. The Spanish-language messages produced by the Democratic campaign compose the sample, which includes blog posts, Facebook posts, tweets, and television ads. Clinton’s campaign produced narratives about who the “good Latinos” are and, consequently, the “good immigrants” while at the same time promoting values such as globalism, cosmopolitanism, and multiculturalism. Paradoxically, these narratives and values failed to portray Latinos’ diversity because they left out this community’s historical, social, and cultural complexity.

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Section: The 2016 Presidential Campaign and Latinosmentioning

confidence: 99%

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

Larrosa-Fuentes

2022

Lat. Am. res. rev.

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Latino Influence in the 2016 Presidential Election:

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

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

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