Eating Puerto Rico: A History Of Food, Culture, And Identity,
2015
Whittier College
Eating Puerto Rico: A History Of Food, Culture, And Identity, Rafael Chabrán
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No abstract provided.
Chef,
2015
DePaul University
Steel Barrio: The Great Mexican Migration To South Chicago, 1915-1940,
2015
Ohio State University
Steel Barrio: The Great Mexican Migration To South Chicago, 1915-1940, Lilia Fernández
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No abstract provided.
A Taste Of Oaxaca: A Chef, A Recipe, And A Cookbook,
2015
University of California, Riverside
A Taste Of Oaxaca: A Chef, A Recipe, And A Cookbook, Juan Pablo Bustos, Apollonia Galván
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No abstract provided.
Rethinking Chicana/O Literature Through Food: Postnational Appetites,
2015
University of California, Riverside
Rethinking Chicana/O Literature Through Food: Postnational Appetites, Marina Nájera
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No abstract provided.
On Making Sense: Queer Race Narratives Of Intelligibility,
2015
University of Pittsburgh
On Making Sense: Queer Race Narratives Of Intelligibility, Armando García
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No abstract provided.
The U.S. Story Of Immigrants And Un-Immigrants,
2015
DePaul University
The U.S. Story Of Immigrants And Un-Immigrants, Elizabeth Coonrod Martínez
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No abstract provided.
Ramiro, Baseball, The Bar, The Ticker Tape, And The Scoreboard,
2015
DePaul University
Ramiro, Baseball, The Bar, The Ticker Tape, And The Scoreboard, Arthur Ramírez
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No abstract provided.
Reframing Immigration In The Americas,
2015
Pomona College
Reframing Immigration In The Americas, Gilda L. Ochoa, Enrique C. Ochoa, Suyapa G. Portillo
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No abstract provided.
The “Good,” The “Bad,” And The Queer Invisible: The Los Angeles May Day Queer Contingent,
2015
Pitzer College
The “Good,” The “Bad,” And The Queer Invisible: The Los Angeles May Day Queer Contingent, Suyapa G. Portillo Villeda, Eileen J. Ma, Stacy I. Macías, Carmen Varela
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This article explores the evolution of the May Day Queer Contingent (MDQC) as a part of the annual Los Angeles May Day march. The MDQC is a notable example of the political mobilization led by queer women and transgender activists of color of the LGBTQ community, as it relates to the struggle for immigrant rights. Offering reflections from founders and key organizers, this paper considers the development of the MDQC; its engagement with other groups; intersectionality and queer women of color feminisms as a political project to confront a heteropatriarchal immigration reform movement.
Organizations Serving Latino Communities Take Opposing Positions On Senate Bill 744,
2015
University of California, Irvine
Organizations Serving Latino Communities Take Opposing Positions On Senate Bill 744, Gilbert G. Gonzalez
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Discussion of the guest worker program in S.B. 744 passed by the U.S. Senate in 2013-14, followed by critical examination of principle positions taken by organizations and lobbyists, and key arguments used to justify their perspectives: legal protected status vs. corporations’ need for cheap, exploitable labor. Historical context provides crucial elements for discussion.
Branding Guilt: American Apparel Inc. And Latina Labor In Los Angeles,
2015
Miami University, Oxford, Ohio
Branding Guilt: American Apparel Inc. And Latina Labor In Los Angeles, Hannah Noel
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A study of the marketing strategies of the clothing enterprise, American Apparel, how it targets affluent, educated youth through socially conscious tactics, including a focus on pro-immigrant rights and Los Angeles-made, “sweatshop-free” advertising. The essay analyzes the ideologies and stances behind marketing materials that often contain images of Latinas/os as laborers, and white (European origin) population as consumers, and examines how U.S.-based ethical capitalism operates as a neoliberal form of social regulation to champion personal responsibility and individual freedom, in often hidden and inferentially racist and classist ways.
Cultural Citizenship And Coming Out On A College Campus: Undocumented Students’ Responses To Everyday Immigration Enforcement,
2015
California State University, Long Beach
Cultural Citizenship And Coming Out On A College Campus: Undocumented Students’ Responses To Everyday Immigration Enforcement, Julia Wignall
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A study of the experiences of young undocumented immigrants as they transition into adulthood in Southern California, their obstacles encountered in the imposed condition of “undocumented,” even within the university experience, and innovative strategies adopted to deal with legal impediments. Using an ethnographic approach and interviews with college students, techniques such as “coming out of the shadows” and “everyday enforcement” are evaluated, as well as theories on practices of cultural citizenship, to demonstrate that undocumented students are claiming space and rights in their daily lives.
Diáspora Interruptus,
2015
Centro de Estudios de Género
Techniques Of Humiliation: Neoliberalism And The Noncitizen's Body,
2015
Emory University
Techniques Of Humiliation: Neoliberalism And The Noncitizen's Body, Munia Bhaumik
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This article argues that the disciplining of noncitizens becomes a constitutive characteristic of neoliberalism. Examining two narratives about bodily deprivation in detention centers, the study pursues the psychic life of statelessness through tragic testimonies that not only point to subjection, induced through techniques of humiliation, but also to the neoliberal contradiction between “inclusion” and practices of regulation. Readings interrogate the problem of normativity in neoliberalism. In particular, the article argues against normative presuppositions about both race and gender, demonstrating how this leads to the denial of medication and death in detention facilities.
Queering Citizenship: Undocuqueer And Immigration Reform,
2015
University of West Virginia
Queering Citizenship: Undocuqueer And Immigration Reform, Betsy Dahms
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Analysis of the founding of the UndocuQueer movement and organizer, Julio Salgado, through Anzaldúan theory on nepantla, and in terms of cultural, sexual, and political citizenship, in the experience of those who came to the U.S. as children. This study assesses reasons for “coming out” as undocumented and queer through activism; argues that coalitional and relational activism challenges current anti-immigration policies and social factors; and advocates for a global and embodied citizenship.
Idealizing Maya Culture: The Politics Of Race, Indigeneity, And Immigration Among Maya Restaurant Owners In Southern California,
2015
University of Minnesota
Idealizing Maya Culture: The Politics Of Race, Indigeneity, And Immigration Among Maya Restaurant Owners In Southern California, M. Bianet Castellanos
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Based on an ethnography of Maya restaurant owners in Los Angeles, the article examines how Maya migrants use Yucatecan cuisine to negotiate the politics of indigeneity. In Mexico, Maya peoples are denigrated as “Indian.” In the U.S., Maya migrants are racialized as “Mexican.” These racialization processes are intended to discipline indigenous subjects both within and outside of national boundaries. By drawing on popular indigenous cultural symbols and tastes that reinforce an idealized Maya culture, Maya restaurateurs construct an alternative politics of recognition that opens the door for new conversations about what it means to be indigenous and Latino.
Empowering Students Through Creative Resistance: Art-Based Critical Pedagogy In The Immigrant Experience,
2015
Claremont Graduate University, School of Educational Studies
Empowering Students Through Creative Resistance: Art-Based Critical Pedagogy In The Immigrant Experience, Luis-Genaro Garcia
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This study displays the value of using art-based critical pedagogy, and the importance of developing the socio-political awareness of immigrant students. It shows the development of strong student-teacher relationships through culturally relevant cirriculums through shared socio-economic and cultural backgrounds. The article relates the author’s personal ongoing relationship as a high school teacher with a former undocumented student as a model and key to nurturing students’ identities and academic endeavors.
Queering Political Economy In Neoliberal Ironbound Newark: Subjectivity And Spacemaking Among Brazilian Queer Immigrant Men,
2015
Department of American Culture, University of Michigan
Queering Political Economy In Neoliberal Ironbound Newark: Subjectivity And Spacemaking Among Brazilian Queer Immigrant Men, Yamil Avivi
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This paper complicates the dominant narrative of Newark’s Ironbound community as an exceptional and heteronormative neighborhood by analyzing the non-heteronormative subjectivities and spaces in them. During the period between 2004-2009, subjects were interviewed, in queer minoritarian spaces, to understand how Brazilian gays/ queers reified and contested neoliberal ideologies of nationalism, “good” ethnicity, individualism, and “appropriate” sexual mores. This ethnographic account employs textual and spatial-temporal analysis to generate an alternative narrative of gay/queer life and groupings in the Ironbound.
Moving Beyond Immigration Reform: A Call For Social Inclusion And To Change U.S. Foreign Policy,
2015
DePaul University
Moving Beyond Immigration Reform: A Call For Social Inclusion And To Change U.S. Foreign Policy, Esther Portillo-Gonzales
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No abstract provided.
