Efforts to win the support of Latino voters every four years is now a common and expected feature of US presidential campaigns, but as described by Benjamin Francis-Fallon’s The Rise of the Latino Vote, the establishment of Latino voters as a recognized political community was never “pre-ordained” but instead built by the “architects of Latino politics” (p. 4). Although previous accounts of the movement for Latino civil rights have documented the fractious nature of political solidarity among grassroots activists, Francis-Fallon’s innovative approach highlights how opportunistic political parties exploited power vacuums created by moments of Latino disunity. Specifically, he shows how time and again, political leaders in the United States were eager to define Latinidad within ideological parameters that were advantageous to their short-term electoral goals rather than in service to Latino communities. Through Francis-Fallon’s comprehensive undertaking, scholars learn how the “Latino vote” was forged through a joint endeavor attributable as much to elites in Washington D.C. as to Latino civil-rights activists across the country.

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书评：拉丁裔投票的兴起：历史

现在，每四年赢得拉丁裔选民支持的努力已成为美国总统竞选活动的普遍和预期特征，但正如本杰明·弗朗西斯·法隆（Benjamin Francis-Fallon）的《拉丁裔投票的兴起》（The Rise of the Latino Vote）所述。，拉美裔选民建立为公认的政治共同体的过程从未被“预先设定”，而是由“拉美裔政治建筑师”建立（第4页）。尽管以前对拉美裔公民权利运动的记载已经证明了基层激进主义者之间政治团结的脆弱性，但弗朗西斯·法隆的创新方法强调了机会主义政党如何利用由拉美裔不团结时刻造成的权力真空。具体来说，他展示了美国的政治领导人是如何一次又一次地渴望在有利于其短期选举目标而不是为拉丁裔社区服务的意识形态参数范围内定义拉丁裔。通过弗朗西斯·法隆（Francis-Fallon）的全面努力，