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The U.S. Story Of Immigrants And Un-Immigrants, Elizabeth Coonrod Martínez Jan 2015

The U.S. Story Of Immigrants And Un-Immigrants, Elizabeth Coonrod Martínez

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Ramiro, Baseball, The Bar, The Ticker Tape, And The Scoreboard, Arthur Ramírez Jan 2015

Ramiro, Baseball, The Bar, The Ticker Tape, And The Scoreboard, Arthur Ramírez

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Reframing Immigration In The Americas, Gilda L. Ochoa, Enrique C. Ochoa, Suyapa G. Portillo Jan 2015

Reframing Immigration In The Americas, Gilda L. Ochoa, Enrique C. Ochoa, Suyapa G. Portillo

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Organizations Serving Latino Communities Take Opposing Positions On Senate Bill 744, Gilbert G. Gonzalez Jan 2015

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, Hannah Noel Jan 2015

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, Julia Wignall Jan 2015

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, Manuel Camus Jan 2015

Diáspora Interruptus, Manuel Camus

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Queering Citizenship: Undocuqueer And Immigration Reform, Betsy Dahms Jan 2015

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, M. Bianet Castellanos Jan 2015

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, Luis-Genaro Garcia Jan 2015

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, Yamil Avivi Jan 2015

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, Esther Portillo-Gonzales Jan 2015

Moving Beyond Immigration Reform: A Call For Social Inclusion And To Change U.S. Foreign Policy, Esther Portillo-Gonzales

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“Stop This Bullshit”, Riku Matsuda Jan 2015

“Stop This Bullshit”, Riku Matsuda

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“Sobreviviendo”: Immigration Stories And Testimonio In Song, Martha E. Gonzalez Jan 2015

“Sobreviviendo”: Immigration Stories And Testimonio In Song, Martha E. Gonzalez

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Informed by experiential methodologies, this study demonstrates how those who engage in collective creative expression, significantly songwriting and dance, affirm a sense of community to usher social and political ideas forward, while reinstating a sense of humanity for migrants within and across nation-state borders. It discusses a specific recording and collaborative composition titled Sobreviviendo.


Indigenous Migrants And Language Barriers In The U.S., Odilia Romero Jan 2015

Indigenous Migrants And Language Barriers In The U.S., Odilia Romero

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Not Coming Out, But Building Home: An Oral History In Re-Conceptualizing A Queer Migrant Home, Sandibel Borges Jan 2015

Not Coming Out, But Building Home: An Oral History In Re-Conceptualizing A Queer Migrant Home, Sandibel Borges

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A feminist study and oral history based in the “coming out” experiences of a Third World, Zapotec-Oaxacan, working-class immigrant woman. Discussion of community issues around queer sexualities, dominant narratives, and home building; brings attention to little-cited scholarship and theory on practices within minority communities.


Self-Determination And Intersectionality In The Immigrant Rights Movement, Betty Hung Jan 2015

Self-Determination And Intersectionality In The Immigrant Rights Movement, Betty Hung

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The Art Of Community: An Interview With Malaquías Montoya, Delia Consentino, Malaquías Montoya Jan 2015

The Art Of Community: An Interview With Malaquías Montoya, Delia Consentino, Malaquías Montoya

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Despojos, Judith Pérez Soria Jan 2015

Despojos, Judith Pérez Soria

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El Sueño Del Ahogado / Dream Of The Drowned Man, Vickie Vértiz Jan 2015

El Sueño Del Ahogado / Dream Of The Drowned Man, Vickie Vértiz

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Book Reviews, Ester E. Hernández Jan 2015

Book Reviews, Ester E. Hernández

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Reviews of Salvadoran Imaginaries: Mediated Identities and Cultures of Consumption and Sacrificing Families: Navigating Laws, Labor, and Love Across Borders


Poemas Migrantes, Consuelo Hernández Jan 2015

Poemas Migrantes, Consuelo Hernández

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Includes the poems "La inmigrante", "El tren de la muerte", "Borderlands", "Nostalgia", and "Lejos"


Book Reviews, Cindy I-Fen Cheng Jan 2015

Book Reviews, Cindy I-Fen Cheng

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Reviews of How Race is Made in America: Immigration, Citizenship, and the Historical Power of Racial Scripts and Reframing the Latino Immigration Debate: Towards a Humanistic Paradigm


Aquí Estoy, Bamby Salcedo Jan 2015

Aquí Estoy, Bamby Salcedo

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Conflicting Commitments: The Politics Of Enforcing Immigrant Worker Rights In San Jose And Houston, Jacqueline Hayes Jan 2015

Conflicting Commitments: The Politics Of Enforcing Immigrant Worker Rights In San Jose And Houston, Jacqueline Hayes

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The Dreamers: How The Undocumented Youth Movement Transformed The Immigrant Rights Debate, Jéssica I. Valenzuela Jan 2015

The Dreamers: How The Undocumented Youth Movement Transformed The Immigrant Rights Debate, Jéssica I. Valenzuela

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Book Reviews, Martha D. Escobar Jan 2015

Book Reviews, Martha D. Escobar

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Reviews of Reform Without Justice: Latino Migrant Politics and the Homeland Security State and Queer Migration Politics: Activist Rhetoric and Coalitional Possibilities


The Disappearing Mestizo, Book Review, Andrew Rosa Jan 2015

The Disappearing Mestizo, Book Review, Andrew Rosa

History Faculty Publications

The Disappearing Mestizo: Configuring Difference in the Colonial New Kingdom of Grenada. Joanne Rappaport. Duke University Press, 2014, 368 pp., $25.99, paper. By probing “when and how” an individual was considered a mestizo (a person of mixed heritage) in the early colonial New Kingdom of Grenada (modern-day Columbia), Joanne Rappaport’s Disappearing Mestizo: Configuring Difference in the Colonial New Kingdom of Granada (Duke University Press, 2014) adds to the growing scholarship on racial difference in colonial Spanish America.


Cross-Continental Care: Us And Cuban Medical Internationalism In Bolivia, Madeleine Blain Jan 2015

Cross-Continental Care: Us And Cuban Medical Internationalism In Bolivia, Madeleine Blain

Latin American Studies Honors Projects

How can something as commonplace as going to the doctor influence international politics? In Bolivia, medicine is bound in politics. The political structure of a country both influences the approach to health care, and determines how that approach is most effectively implemented internationally. Building upon a framework of conceptual difference between capitalist and socialist health systems, this paper examines “effective” models of US and Cuban international health care on both a political and individual level. Drawing on fieldwork conducted in a Bolivian hospital, interviews with doctors working internationally, and current literature, I seek to discern what defines “effective” international health …


Primitivism And Identity In Latin America: The Appropriation Of Indigenous Cultures In 20th-Century Latin American Art, Rachel Newman Jan 2015

Primitivism And Identity In Latin America: The Appropriation Of Indigenous Cultures In 20th-Century Latin American Art, Rachel Newman

Art History Honors Papers

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