Fear and Threat in Illegal America: Latinas/os, Immigration, and Progressive Representation in Colorblind Times.

Latinas/Os;Immigration;Colorblindness;Latina/O Studies;U.S. Neoliberalism;Latin/O Labor;American and Canadian Studies;Humanities (General);Latin American and Caribbean Studies;Humanities;American Culture

Noel, Hannah KathrynMora, Anthony P. ;

University of Michigan

关键词: Latinas/Os;    Immigration;    Colorblindness;    Latina/O Studies;    U.S. Neoliberalism;    Latin/O Labor;    American and Canadian Studies;    Humanities (General);    Latin American and Caribbean Studies;    Humanities;    American Culture;   

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瑞士|英语

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【 摘 要 】

;;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, immigration history, corporate policies, and media representations. My dissertation’s central organizing question is: how are ideologies of personal responsibly and colorblindness at times unwittingly espoused through the policies and practices of self-identified progressive media, corporate, and legislative initiatives?Through analyzing progressive sources, my research suggests that ideologies of colorblindness are now common sense, interpellated by individuals and institutions of a myriad of political leanings.In order to begin to deconstruct such pervasive ideologies, I assert that we must recognize how insidious notions of colorblindness and personal responsibility are in the ways that even the most progressive, affluent, and well-educated among us live, work, consume, and understand the world. Specifically, this dissertation examines how progressive institutions, businesses, and federal policy each perpetuate a covert class- and race-based neoliberal brands of social regulation that work to racialize undocumented Latinas/os as darker-skinned and as politically, criminally, sexually, and linguistically threatening. The thesis of my dissertation is that the post-1965 racial construction of Latinas/os continues a longstanding tradition of stereotyping Latinas/os as perpetual foreigners. ;;Fear and Threat in Illegal America” highlights a new contemporary ;;colorblind” racial configuration of Latinas/os, and the ways in which racism can continue in subtle forms under the rubric of colorblindness.