I have my students in ES101 do an assignment in which they follow coverage of national debate/popular issue for instance in which race, class, and/or ethnicity come up in overt or covert ways. The purpose of the assignment is to get them to think about how the words we use shade the ideas we have [...]
Tag archives for immigration
This is what Arizona’s non-racial profiling law looks like
Arizona’s former governor Castro stopped for a third time by law enforcement to question him about his legal status.
category: Things Critical
Racist chants at high school basketball tournament
This, here, is what I am talking about. According to the story, the cheering coming from the Alamo Heights High School (a predominately white school in an affluent part of Houston) took a decidedly racist tone as the boys’s basketball team secured its win over over San Antonio’s Edison High School boys’ basketball team. Edison High School is a predominantly [...]
category: Things General
on Talking Back via Identity Politics
Deedee Garcia Blase (R-AZ) forms the National Tequila Party in the hopes of motivating would-be Latino voters to get out to the polls in 2012 in response to the anti-immigration rhetoric of the Tea Party. Note that Garcia Blase is Republican, and note that National Tequila Party doesn’t overtly identify with either the Left or [...]
category: Things General, Things Rhetorical
tags: civil rights, class, discourse, ethnicity, history, immigration, latino/a, national identity, race
Bartering for Citizenship
A few weeks ago I wrote about the possible (read: likely) effects of employing certain rhetoric when advocating for same-sex marriage (namely that which aligns homosexuality with heteronormativity…homonormativity?). Historically, civil rights discourses have pitted minority groups against the dominant group in a sort of “tit-for-tat”; if you want this, then you have to give this [...]
category: Things Critical, Things Rhetorical
On the Complicated State of Immigration and Immigrants in/to the U.S.
A Nation of Immigrants Martin, Susan F. Cambridge University Press: 2011
category: Things General
On Non-heroes and their Contributions to U.S. Society
A Renegade History of the United States Russell, Thaddeus. Free Press: 2010
category: Bookmarks