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Fear and Threat in Illegal America: Latinas/os, Immigration, and Progressive Representation in Colorblind Times.
(2014)
“Fear and Threat in Illegal America” is a cultural studies critical discourse analysis of how Latinas/os are interpellated as “illegal aliens” as a mode of U.S. neoliberal social regulation by progressive public policy, ...
The Othello Effect: The Performance of Black Masculinity in Mid-Century Cinema
(2011)
This dissertation attempts to theorize the performance of black masculinity in the mid-twentieth century as a cultural process, by analyzing films with narratives that creatively confronted the problem of race and intercultural ...
Bodega Surrealism: The Emergence of Latin@ Artivists in New York City, 1976-Present.
(2011)
This dissertation examines the cultural activism, or artivism, of two community-based art communities and projects that originated in the 1970s within the Lower East Side neighborhood of New York City: the New Rican Village ...
Authentic Assertions, Commercial Concessions: Race, Nation, and Popular Culture in Cuban New York City and Miami, 1940-1960.
(2012)
“Authentic Assertions, Commercial Concessions” examines the relationship between popular black and white Cuban entertainers and the Cuban communities and broader Latino/a publics of New York City and Miami in the 1940s and ...
(Play)Grounds for Dismissal: Ninas Raras in Transborder Children's Cultural Studies.
(2013)
This study instates the child as a unique, and often evaded, category of analysis. I investigate children's literature, television, and short films produced across México, the United States, and Canada that challenge ...