- Title Information
- Title
- Framing Identity: Nonprofit Messaging and the Politics of Latinidad
- Abstract
- Latinos are now the largest minority group in the United States. As the population grows, it also continues to diversify along the lines of citizenship, nationality, politics, class, and education. In this thesis, I examine how and why advocacy nonprofits have shifted their messaging around Latino identity over time, and what their issue priorities reveal about their assumptions regarding Latino political preferences. Through a text analysis of Instagram posts from two organizations—the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) and Voto Latino—I find that MALDEF emphasizes the dangers and challenges facing Latinos in the US, while Voto Latino highlights the contributions of Latinos to the country through optimistic narratives about civic engagement. This study illuminates the broader process of ethnoracial identity construction in America and offers insights for advocacy nonprofits working to represent and mobilize Latinos in an increasingly polarized political landscape.
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Roth-Shapiro, Lilly A.
- Role
- Role Term (marcrelator)
(authorityURI="http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators", valueURI="http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/cre")
- creator
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Weir, Margaret
- Role
- Role Term (marcrelator)
(authorityURI="http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators", valueURI="http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ths")
- thesis advisor
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Jusionyte, Ieva
- Role
- Role Term
- reader
- Name:
Corporate
- Name Part
- Brown University. International and Public Affairs
- Role
- Role Term:
Text
- sponsor
- Origin Information
- Copyright Date
- 2025
- Type of Resource (primo)
- text_resources
- Physical Description
- digitalOrigin
- born digital
- Language
- Language Term:
Text (ISO639-2B)
(authorityURI="http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-2.html", valueURI="http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-2/eng")
- English
- Note:
thesis
- Senior thesis (AB)--Brown University, 2025
- Note
(displayLabel="Concentration")
- International and Public Affairs
- Genre (aat)
- theses
- Subject (fast)
(authorityURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast", valueURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast/01741098")
- Topic
- Social media
- Subject (fast)
(authorityURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast", valueURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast/")
- Topic
- immigration
- Access Condition:
use and reproduction
- All rights reserved
- Access Condition:
rights statement
(href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/")
- In Copyright
- Access Condition:
restriction on access
- All Rights Reserved
- Identifier:
DOI
- 10.26300/3kxt-y650