Acadia Wk 8 What Did Construction of Illegal Applied to People Respond to Questions
Week Six: May 8-12: Contexts of Domination
Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic, Eds. 1997. Critical White Studies
. Temple University Press
Reginald Horsman. “Race and Manifest Destiny: The Origins of American Racial Anglo-Saxonism
,” pp. 139-144
- Ramón Grosfoguel. 2004. “Race and Ethnicity or Racialized Ethnicities? Identities within Global Coloniality
.” Ethnicities3: 315–336
- Suyapa Portillo Villeda and Miguel Tinker Salas. 2021. “The Root Cause of Migration is Imperialism.” Jacobin, June. https://jacobinmag.com/2021/06/kamala-harris-centr…
Saskia Sassen. 1992. “Why Migration
?” Race, Poverty & the Environment2: 15-20
Prompt question: What role does colonialism/imperialism play in the racialization of the other and how the dominant group views the subjects?
- Film on Friday: Race: The Power of an Illusion, Episode Two
Week Seven: May 15-19: Constructing “Illegal” Immigration and Racial Boundary Making
- David Montejano. 2004. “Who is Samuel Huntington
? The Intelligence Failure of a Harvard Professor.” Texas Monthly, August 13.
- Mae Ngai. 2014. Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens in the Making of Modern America. Princeton, Chapter 1 (pp. 1-14)
- Links to an external site.
Nicholas de Genova. 2013. “Spectacles of Migrant ‘Illegality’: The Scene of Exclusion, The Obscene of Inclusion
- .” Ethnic and Racial Studies 36:7: 1180-1198
Film on Friday:
Al Jazeera: Who is to Blame for the ‘Broken’ US Immigration System?
Prompt question: What did the construction of “illegal” applied to people respond to? What additional barriers were imposed on people being classified as “illegal?” Please explain.
- Week Eight: May 22-26: Deportation Machines and Unintended Consequences
Mae Ngai. 2014. Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America.
Princeton University Press, Chapter 2 (pp. 56-90)
Douglas Massey. 2020. “The Real Crisis at the US-Mexico Border: A Humanitarian and not an Immigration Emergency
- .” Sociological Forum3: 787-805
Film on Friday:
Prompt question: Just how old is our deportation agenda? What are some of the more recent unintended consequences? Please explain.
Week Nine: (No Class May 29) May 31-June 2: The Carceral State—Immigration and Race
- Tanya Golash-Boza. 2016. “The Parallels between Mass Incarceration and Mass Deportation: An Intersectional Analysis
.” Journal of World-Systems Research2: 484-509
- Tanya Golash-Boza. 2017. “Structural Racism, Criminalization, and Pathways to Deportation for Dominican and Jamaican Men in the United States
- .” Social Justice 2-3: 137-162
Film on Friday: Lumpkin, GA: The Hidden Heart of the American Immigration Crackdown
Prompt question: What is the relationship to mass incarceration to mass deportation? What roles do race play?
Week Ten: June 5-9: Immigration, Race, Ethnicity, and Technology
- Michael Calderón-Zaks. 2022. “Technological Change before Globalization: Race and Declining Employment for Mexicans on Railroads, 1945-1970
.” Journal of World-Systems Research1(Winter/Spring): 77-97
Ruha Benjamin. 2019. “Assessing Risk, Automating Racism: A Health Care Algorithm Reflects Underlying Racism in Society
.” Science 366: 421-422
Payal Banerjee. 2006. “Indian Technology Workers in the United States: The H-1B Visa, Flexible Production, and the Racialization of Labor
.” Critical Sociology 2-3: 425-445
Prompt question: How do technological changes change or reinforce social relations along the lines of immigration, race and ethnicity?
- Film on Friday:
Democracy Now! One Bad Algorithm?
- Writing Rules/Guidelines, aka “Checklist
You can choose as few/many questions within that range to answer, so long as you reach the word count of 800-1000 words (words in titles and works cited not included).
- Write prompt question that you’re responding to as your title
Papers that don’t follow this rule automatically lose 10% of points
Your thesis is your response to the question
Cite facts and figures whenever you enter them in the text
- Citation Format: (author last name year: page number(s))
Write in your own words
Quotes should be no more than one sentence
- List all sources you cited in your Works Cited
Have at least two in-class reading sources if you only respond to one prompt, otherwise have at least three in-class reading sources for the entire paper. If you want, you can also add scholarly sources that are not on the syllabus on top of the quota for in-class reading sources.
Reference readings, not lectures. Prove that you read!
- Article format: Author last name, first name. Year. “Article Title.” Journal TitleNumber: page range of entire article
Example: Calderón-Zaks, Michael. 2022. “Technological Change before Globalization: Race and Declining Employment for Mexicans on Railroads, 1945-1970.” Journal of World-Systems Research1(Winter/Spring): 77-97.
Book format: Author last name, first name. Year. Title. Publisher home location: publisher.
- Example: Ngai, Mae. 2003. Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
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