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Becoming American: Constructing Mexican Immigrants In Local Newspapers, Zheng Zhu
Becoming American: Constructing Mexican Immigrants In Local Newspapers, Zheng Zhu
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Media representation of Latino immigrants has been extensively studied by scholars across diverse academic disciplines. Particular to the U.S. context, preceding scholarships pertaining to the ways in which Latinos were represented centered on the media representation of Latino immigrants either as the exotic racial other or undesirable foreigners. In light of the important role that the Mexican immigrants played in understanding the current national debate on illegal immigration and the overall historical experiences of immigrants in Washington State (WA), this study critically investigated how news articles published in WA represented Mexican immigrants. As a crucial point of departure from prior …
Introduction: The 1970s, Shelly J. Eversley, Michelle Habell-Pallán
Introduction: The 1970s, Shelly J. Eversley, Michelle Habell-Pallán
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Introduction to special issue, "The 1970s," of WSQ (Women's Studies Quarterly), edited by Shelly Eversley and Michelle Habell-Pallán.
Primitive At The Plantation's Edge, Robert F. Reid-Pharr
Primitive At The Plantation's Edge, Robert F. Reid-Pharr
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There comes a time when the only thing that one can do is admit defeat. Standing at the tail end of a Black Studies movement established as part of the articulation of anti-segregationist, anti-colonialist African and African American political and cultural insurgencies, one is made painfully aware of a sort of necessary and inevitable social and professional marginalization structuring the everyday existence of the so-called black scholar. The broadly imagined ethical outlines of even the most valued projects of black intellectualism continue as ornamental, overly moralistic, never quite fully valid aspects of the industry / government / education complex that …