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English Language Notes (2018) 56 (2): 107–120.
Published: 01 October 2018
...Yolanda Padilla Abstract Angel Rama’s concept of the letrado refers to Latin American lettered individuals who used writing to consolidate the nation. But what might it have meant to be a letrado in the geopolitical context of the US-Mexico border in the early twentieth century, one that combined...
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English Language Notes (2018) 56 (2): 28–43.
Published: 01 October 2018
...Rachel Conrad Bracken Abstract This article situates early twentieth-century Latinx fiction within the intertwined histories of public health and border surveillance along the Rio Grande to reveal a “borderland biopolitics” unique to the US-Mexico border region. Drawing on three early twentieth...
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English Language Notes (2019) 57 (2): 22–42.
Published: 01 October 2019
... cockpits are actually skulls, and the compositions exceed the scientific and painterly genres they represent. The imposition of man-made surveillance technologies deployed along the US-Mexico border on the botanical paintings disrupts their calendric function. The juxtaposition of plants and helicopters...
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English Language Notes (2017) 55 (1-2): 121–134.
Published: 01 March 2017
... these overlapping keywords and seek to correct m isperceptions, I examine tw o film s for illustration. Both Alejandro González Iñárritu's Babel8 and Tommy Lee Jones' The Three Burials o f Melquíades Estrada9 are set on the US-Mexico border and offer op po rtu ni ties to explore the interpretive and creative...
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English Language Notes (2018) 56 (2): 8–24.
Published: 01 October 2018
... Beginnings are an ongoing process challenging the simplification of a subject to an origin or a point in time. Beginnings are vectors emphasizing direction. Anthropologist Susan J. Terrio sets forth that “when the number of unaccompanied children crossing the US–Mexico border from October 2013 to June...
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English Language Notes (2019) 57 (2): 151–159.
Published: 01 October 2019
... This time, the image of “illegal” and “bad” immigrants “infest[ing] our country” roused even more detractors at a time when nearly three thousand children were being severed from their parents at the US-Mexico border. In both cases, Trump unapologetically claimed that he was solely characterizing the MS...
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English Language Notes (2018) 56 (2): 55–66.
Published: 01 October 2018
... from immigrant communities whose populations are not easily integrated into an Anglo or a black/white conception of the nation.” 5 These forgotten cultural and political resonances include the hemispheric collisions brought about by the US-Mexico War, which unsettled the temporal and spatial borders...
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English Language Notes (2020) 58 (1): 40–62.
Published: 01 April 2020
...., etc. writers north of that US-Canadian border. I realize as well that I have possibly made matters a tad difficult for the would-be invited NWCA writer-scholar in selecting the ones for his or her ballot for the Lifetime Achievement Award. Suffice it to say that I am now providing a brief listing...
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English Language Notes (2020) 58 (2): 35–49.
Published: 01 October 2020
... (Albuquerque and New Mexico have adopted several “freedom city policies”). 1 The borders that we build and uphold to the detriment of others, to exclude and dehumanize, shape national policy not just in the United States but also in Europe and beyond. In Europe the discourse of “Fortress Europe” has led...
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English Language Notes (2007) 45 (2): 65–76.
Published: 01 September 2007
... masculinity. In the case o f Selena, her presence in TexMex music was no different, as she had attempted success w ith in an extrem ely sexist musical genre. Let us recall that Selena was no overnight success. A t the tim e a still-teenage Selena perform s in Matamoros, Mexico, in 1987, she has been a public...
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English Language Notes (2023) 61 (1): 1–16.
Published: 01 April 2023
...” or “biopolitical separation,” even “segregation.” 10 In the United States, for instance, the Trump administration invoked, for the first time since it was established, Title 42 of the Public Health Service Act of 1944 to halt all immigration at the US-Mexico border, including for people seeking asylum, while...
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English Language Notes (2010) 48 (2): 111–128.
Published: 01 September 2010
... benefit both Americans and Mexicans; and if an American outlaw on the run crosses over into Mexico, American police cannot legally cross over to arrest him w ithout authorization from the Mexican government. Borders, in other words, seem a natural place to locate national law's endpoint. Yet territory...
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English Language Notes (2018) 56 (2): 67–70.
Published: 01 October 2018
... borders and narratives. For this reason and for its political urgency, Latinx studies needs to maintain recourse to the US nation, despite the field necessarily operating as methodologically transnational. Copyright © 2018 Regents of the University of Colorado 2018 archives nation nationalism...
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English Language Notes (2014) 52 (1): 145–154.
Published: 01 March 2014
... by focusing specifically on the com plexities of Carrington's fem inine engagement w ith mapping. Cos grove suggests that the process of mapping involves "m om ents of coming to knowledge of the w o rld "3 and this insight into the interrelationship between cognition, spatial knowledge, and agency is useful...
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English Language Notes (2007) 45 (1): 67–78.
Published: 01 March 2007
... orientation. W hile border studies, transnationalism , and postcolonialism m ight tells us a lot of our current neoliberal moment, how can these theories inform us o f a past that has not been integrated into our present? W hile much is said to be known of the Hispanic today, J o s é F. A r a n d a , J r 69...
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English Language Notes (2018) 56 (2): 104–106.
Published: 01 October 2018
...Marissa López Abstract While an inclusive Latinx studies has real intellectual justification, the move to craft Latinx rather than specifically Chicanx scholarly questions relies on presentism and adumbrates conflicts over class and citizenship. Drawing on her personal experience justifying the use...
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English Language Notes (2013) 51 (1): 173–181.
Published: 01 March 2013
... move ment in Chiapas, México, EDT used virtual sit-in software or FloodNet attacks to demand that the rights granted to all citizens be guaranteed also for the indigenous com m unities in southern Mexico. Fiction plays a key role in these demands. Subcomandante Marcos and m any o f the com an dantes...
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English Language Notes (2015) 53 (1): 173–180.
Published: 01 March 2015
... m m itm e n t to LGBT rights and AIDS activism in San Francisco, home of its corporate headquarters, and enthusiastic embrace of d ive rsity in its US marketing, w ith its ruthless la b o u r practices in Mexico. In short, Hennessy helps us to c o n fro n t o u r o w n im p lica tio n...
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English Language Notes (2014) 52 (2): 75–96.
Published: 01 September 2014
... possession o f the key of the G ulf o f Mexico, it m ay be used in her hands to unlock her ow n house o f b ondage10 Since slavery's position w ithin a still-form ing United States was already so divisive, and the international slave trade was supposedly closed, many North Am ericans tended to vie w slavery...
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English Language Notes (2010) 48 (2): 1–6.
Published: 01 September 2010
... that the establishment of the border space between the United States and Mexico serves less to clarify than to blur the differ ences on either side of it differences between Americans and Mexicans, residents and strangers, even law and crime. In "The Curves of Justice," Robert Ferguson continues this interrogation...
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