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Noticias De Naccs, Vol. 39, No. 4, December 2010, National Association For Chicana And Chicano Studies
Noticias De Naccs, Vol. 39, No. 4, December 2010, National Association For Chicana And Chicano Studies
Noticias de NACCS Newsletter
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Noticias De Naccs, Vol. 39, No. 3, September 2010, National Association For Chicana And Chicano Studies
Noticias De Naccs, Vol. 39, No. 3, September 2010, National Association For Chicana And Chicano Studies
Noticias de NACCS Newsletter
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Noticias De Naccs, Vol. 39, No. 2, June 2010, National Association For Chicana And Chicano Studies
Noticias De Naccs, Vol. 39, No. 2, June 2010, National Association For Chicana And Chicano Studies
Noticias de NACCS Newsletter
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Noticias De Naccs, Vol. 39, No. 1, February 2010, National Association For Chicana And Chicano Studies
Noticias De Naccs, Vol. 39, No. 1, February 2010, National Association For Chicana And Chicano Studies
Noticias de NACCS Newsletter
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Transnational Knowledge Projects And Failing Racial Etiquette, Sandra Soto
Transnational Knowledge Projects And Failing Racial Etiquette, Sandra Soto
NACCS Annual Conference Proceedings
Abstract:
This essay calls upon Chicana/o Studies scholars to interrogate some of the assumptions underwriting the transnational turn. Chief among these is the implicit supposition that in order to produce transnational scholarship, one simply (but necessarily) must cross a national border. On the one hand, in taking the concept “transnational” far too literally, this simplistic assumption ignores far more substantive and compelling questions about transnational capitalism’s affects on subjectivity, desire, and resistance. On the other hand, the (sole) crossing-borders criterion suggests that those scholars who work on racial formations within the U.S. (Chicana/o Studies scholars, for instance) have no responsibility …
Latinas In The Kitchen: The Rhetoric Of Food And Desire, Elizabeth Kessler
Latinas In The Kitchen: The Rhetoric Of Food And Desire, Elizabeth Kessler
NACCS Annual Conference Proceedings
Abstract:
Even though the commodification of women by linking them erotically to food has been accepted for decades and used by women themselves to manipulate men and their desires, this has, in turn, led to behavioral and psychological problems. Using feminist as well as psychoanalytical criticism and theory by authors such as Nancy Chodorow, Nydia Garcia-Preto, Elspeth Probyn, Sigmund Freud, and others, “Latinas in the Kitchen: The Rhetoric of Food and Desire” explores how addiction to food and sex leads to unsuitable ways to satisfy one’s needs. Beginning with untreated emotional abuse that leads to inappropriate behavior between a father …