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'Dicks Are For Chicks': Latino Boys, Masculinity, And The Abjection Of Hiomosexuality, Richard Mora, Mary Christianakis
'Dicks Are For Chicks': Latino Boys, Masculinity, And The Abjection Of Hiomosexuality, Richard Mora, Mary Christianakis
Richard Mora
Employing social constructivist theories and the concept of abjection from gender studies, this article examines how and why a group of low-income, USA-born Dominican and Puerto Rican middle-school boys constructed masculine identities by invoking and repudiating homosexuality. Ethnographic data from a 2.5-year study indicate that the abjection of homosexuality was a place of performativity wherein the boys utilised their bodies, cultural referents, and bilingualism to delineate masculinity, reiterate heteronormativity, and distance themselves from homosexuals, who they perceived as a threat to their sexuality, personal safety, and physical dominance. At school, the boys enacted a hypermasculine, heteronormative variant of their ethno-racial …
E Pluribus Unum: Elementary School Narratives And The Making Of National Identity, Richard Mora, Mary Christianakis
E Pluribus Unum: Elementary School Narratives And The Making Of National Identity, Richard Mora, Mary Christianakis
Richard Mora
No abstract provided.
Urban Latino Parents’ Narratives Of Parent Involvement, Richard Mora, Mary Christianakis
Urban Latino Parents’ Narratives Of Parent Involvement, Richard Mora, Mary Christianakis
Richard Mora
No abstract provided.
College Curriculum As Counter Discourse: The California Immigration Semester At Occidental College, Richard Mora, Mary Christianakis, Salvador Fernándex
College Curriculum As Counter Discourse: The California Immigration Semester At Occidental College, Richard Mora, Mary Christianakis, Salvador Fernándex
Richard Mora
No abstract provided.
My Tijuana Lost., Richard Mora
Zoot Suit Riots, Richard Mora
“Do It For All Your Pubic Hairs!”: Latino Boys, Masculinity, And Puberty, Richard Mora
“Do It For All Your Pubic Hairs!”: Latino Boys, Masculinity, And Puberty, Richard Mora
Richard Mora
The literature on masculinity lacks thorough and sustained in situ examinations of how diverse boys employ their bodies to construct masculine identities during pubescence. To address this gap, the present article examines how a group of 10 sixth-grade Latino boys, who publicly acknowledged that they were experiencing puberty, employed their bodies at school to construct their masculine identities. The data suggest that among the boys, puberty was a social accomplishment connected to masculine enactments informed by the dominant gendered expectations of peers at school and in their neighborhoods, the hegemonic masculine practices espoused by commercial hip hop rappers, and the …
On Ideas, Life, And Death, Richard Mora
José Ángel Guitierrez Martínez, Richard Mora
Diversity Day: Immigration, Richard Mora, Mary Christianakis
Diversity Day: Immigration, Richard Mora, Mary Christianakis
Richard Mora
No abstract provided.
“No Free Rides, No Excuses”: Film Stereotypes Of Urban Working Class Students, Richard Mora, Mary Christianakis
“No Free Rides, No Excuses”: Film Stereotypes Of Urban Working Class Students, Richard Mora, Mary Christianakis
Richard Mora
No abstract provided.
The Cinematic Cholo In Havoc, Richard Mora
The Cinematic Cholo In Havoc, Richard Mora
Richard Mora
For over a century now, ‘the motion-picture industry [...] has functioned as the primary transmitter of racist Latino/a images’ (Castro 2006: 89). The cholo, or Chicano gang member, is a prevalent archetypal figure used to depict Mexican and Mexican American men and youth on the screen.1 The ‘inarticulate, violent, and pathologically dangerous “bandidos”’ of the silent film era have been transformed into the cholo (Berg 2002: 69). As the reel descendent of the Mexican bandido, the cholo is of questionable character, with few redeeming qualities. Like his predecessor, the cinematic cholo is an abject being (Mora 2011). In this text, …
Feeding The School-To-Prison Pipeline: The Convergence Of Neoliberalism, Conservatism, And Penal Populism, Richard Mora, Mary Christianakis
Feeding The School-To-Prison Pipeline: The Convergence Of Neoliberalism, Conservatism, And Penal Populism, Richard Mora, Mary Christianakis
Richard Mora
No abstract provided.
Children, Development, And The Textual Gun Dilemma, Richard Mora, Mary Christianakis
Children, Development, And The Textual Gun Dilemma, Richard Mora, Mary Christianakis
Richard Mora
No abstract provided.
Abjection And The Cinematic Cholo: The Chicano Gang Stereotype In Sociohistoric Context, Richard Mora
Abjection And The Cinematic Cholo: The Chicano Gang Stereotype In Sociohistoric Context, Richard Mora
Richard Mora
In this brief research note, the author uses a sociohistoric lens to examine selected films that have employed the cholo, or Chicano gang member, stereotype. He finds that the cholo is a prevalent archetype of Mexican and Mexican American youth. The author argues that the depiction of the cholo as a hypermasculine, abject personage threatening the social order converges with how actual Latino youth are constructed in sociopolitical and media discourses-as both marginalized young men and migrants unworthy of membership in U.S. society.
Abjection And The Cinematic Cholo: The Chicano Gang Stereotype In Sociohistoric Context, Richard Mora
Abjection And The Cinematic Cholo: The Chicano Gang Stereotype In Sociohistoric Context, Richard Mora
Richard Mora
In this brief research note, the author uses a sociohistoric lens to examine selected films that have employed the cholo, or Chicano gang member, stereotype. He finds that the cholo is a prevalent archetype of Mexican and Mexican American youth. The author argues that the depiction of the cholo as a hypermasculine, abject personage threatening the social order converges with how actual Latino youth are constructed in sociopolitical and media discourses-as both marginalized young men and migrants unworthy of membership in U.S. society.
Teen Motherhood: Controlling Images, Abjection, & Performativit, Richard Mora, Mary Christianakis
Teen Motherhood: Controlling Images, Abjection, & Performativit, Richard Mora, Mary Christianakis
Richard Mora
No abstract provided.
Conflict Resolution/Peer Mediation, Richard Mora
Life, Death, And Second Mothering: Mexican American Mothers, Gang Violence, And La Virgen De Guadalupe, Richard Mora
Life, Death, And Second Mothering: Mexican American Mothers, Gang Violence, And La Virgen De Guadalupe, Richard Mora
Richard Mora
No abstract provided.
Model Minority, Richard Mora
Charting A New Course For Public Education Through Charter Schools: Where Is Obama Taking Us?, Richard Mora, Mary Christianakis
Charting A New Course For Public Education Through Charter Schools: Where Is Obama Taking Us?, Richard Mora, Mary Christianakis
Richard Mora
No abstract provided.
Charter Schools, Market Capitalism, And Obama’S Neoliberal Agenda., Richard Mora, Mary Christianakis
Charter Schools, Market Capitalism, And Obama’S Neoliberal Agenda., Richard Mora, Mary Christianakis
Richard Mora
No abstract provided.
Monitor The Future Survey, Richard Mora
Joaquín Murrieta, Richard Mora
“School Is So Boring”: High-Stakes Testing And Boredom At An Urban Middle School, Richard Mora
“School Is So Boring”: High-Stakes Testing And Boredom At An Urban Middle School, Richard Mora
Richard Mora
Existing evidence suggests that high stakes exams result in little increased learning among students (Amrein & Berliner, 2002; Klein, Hamilton, McCaffrey, & Stetcher, 2000; Koretz, Mitchell, & Stetcher, 1996). Yet, given the federal mandates for greater accountability, such as No Child Left Behind (NCLB) legislation and Race to the Top policies, and the “pervasive testing culture” (Moses & Nanna, 2007, p. 55), the use of high-stakes tests is presently an accepted practice. The importance ascribed to standardized tests within public education has significant impact on pedagogical practices. The majority of teachers surveyed in two large school districts reported placing “greater …
“Do It For All Your Public Hairs!”: Latino Boys, Masculinity, And Puberty, Richard Mora
“Do It For All Your Public Hairs!”: Latino Boys, Masculinity, And Puberty, Richard Mora
Richard Mora
No abstract provided.
Review Of Erotic Journeys: Mexican Immigrants And Their Sex Lives By Gloria González-López, Richard Mora
Review Of Erotic Journeys: Mexican Immigrants And Their Sex Lives By Gloria González-López, Richard Mora
Richard Mora
[...] for one-third of the women, rape and/or incest were their first sexual experience, a fact that points to the role that dominance plays in the patriarchal gender regimes in which the women lived.
Review Of The Woman In The Zoot Suit: Gender, Nationalism, And The Cultural Politics Of Memory By Catherine S. Ramírez, Richard Mora
Review Of The Woman In The Zoot Suit: Gender, Nationalism, And The Cultural Politics Of Memory By Catherine S. Ramírez, Richard Mora
Richard Mora
No abstract provided.
Invited Lecturer, Richard Mora
Review Of Dying To Be Men: Youth, Masculinity, And Social Exclusion By Gary T. Barker, Richard Mora
Review Of Dying To Be Men: Youth, Masculinity, And Social Exclusion By Gary T. Barker, Richard Mora
Richard Mora
Relying on data collected from participatory observations over several years, indepth interviews, action research, and case studies with heterosexual young men (ages 15 to 24), Barker addresses the following five issues which influence young men's choice of masculinity: * the general challenges they face while coming of age in settings of social exclusion * their vulnerability to becoming involved in gang-related violence or being the victim of such violence * their gender-specific access to and performance in school * their access to the job market, the challenges they face in acquiring employment and the meaning of work in terms of …