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America has been penetrated. An alien population has come to stain the fabric of the red, white, and blue dress of our Mother America. A disease, a sickness, a biological threat to the white nation state instills a fear of the unfamiliar and unknown. The call of our times is to vaccinate and sterilize our society to match our conception of the ideal race.
White victimization in the United States has been disturbingly successful at reducing the mobility and freedom of migrant workers in an effort to maintain the white nation-state. This sexualization of the American nation state creates the ultimate goal of protection from the racialized migrant body through any means, perpetuating endless violence.
Rowe 2004 (Aimee Carrillo Rowe is a professor of Communications and Cultural Studies at California State University. Author of several books on geopolitics and power relations. "Whose "America"? The Politics of Rhetoric and Space in the Formation of U.S. Nationalism" THE RADICAL HISTORIAN’S ORGANIZATION, INC. Spring of 2004.)
The discourse of white victimization is one of the most successful moves by the Right
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of the nation as white female body in need of white male protection.
The white body undergoes "Anglo Anxiety" in which the nation state’s fears are twisted and directed towards racialized migrants in the form of state sanctioned violence. This fear is used to justify endless domination and incapacitation of Latin American migrant workers mobility and freedom, all the while constructing the white American "citizen" as the victim in need of protection
Rowe 2004 (Aimee Carrillo Rowe is a professor of Communications and Cultural Studies at California State University. Author of several books on geopolitics and power relations. "Whose "America"? The Politics of Rhetoric and Space in the Formation of U.S. Nationalism" THE RADICAL HISTORIAN’S ORGANIZATION, INC. Spring of 2004.)
For instance, ideological, economic, and state forms of control collude within the
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produce those very borders as one-way turnstiles for white "Americans."
In the borderlands, the United States suppresses mobility and exerts oppressive and absolute control over the racialized migrant body while the white "American citizen" walks free. The state has transformed a single region into a multilayered racialized "space", blurring the distinction between the private and public sphere, resulting in utter immobility and oppression.
Rowe 2004 (Aimee Carrillo Rowe is a professor of Communications and Cultural Studies at California State University. Author of several books on geopolitics and power relations. "Whose "America"? The Politics of Rhetoric and Space in the Formation of U.S. Nationalism" THE RADICAL HISTORIAN’S ORGANIZATION, INC. Spring of 2004.)
Scholars in my own ?eld of communication studies are turning their attention to work emerging
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susceptible to public and private forms of abuse, must be rendered visible.
The nation state describes itself as being comprised of "white citizens" against a backdrop of migrant workers. This contrast marginalizes and restricts the mobility and freedom of migrant workers by reducing them to the Other to be compared to- thus restricting the migrant worker’s access to freedom, government, and political processes.
Rowe 2004 (Aimee Carrillo Rowe is a professor of Communications and Cultural Studies at California State University. Author of several books on geopolitics and power relations. "Whose "America"? The Politics of Rhetoric and Space in the Formation of U.S. Nationalism" THE RADICAL HISTORIAN’S ORGANIZATION, INC. Spring of 2004.)
The white nation constructed within these popular texts needs its brown borders in order to
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of anti-immi- gration discourse legitimating such differentiated forms of belonging.
Racism is not only at the core of exclusion and subjugation to violence and domination, but implicates all knowledge production. Any struggle against racism must be without concessions or surcease.
Memmi 99 Albert Memmi, Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Paris, 1999 (Racism, Published by the University of Minnesota Press, ISBN 0816631654, p. 163-165)
The struggle against racism will be long, difficult, without intermission, without remission
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. True, it is a wager, but the stakes are irresistible.
And thus, Spencer and I advocate increasing economic engagement towards Mexico through a critical examination of racialized dominance in the borderlands.
A rigorous critical examination allows for us to rearticulate and reconceptualize the borderlands and the migrant workers within that defined space. Only this methodology allows for us to historically contextualize the whiteness and state sanctioned oppression of migrant workers so embedded in the "space" of the borderlands.
Rowe 2004 (Aimee Carrillo Rowe is a professor of Communications and Cultural Studies at California State University. Author of several books on geopolitics and power relations. "Whose "America"? The Politics of Rhetoric and Space in the Formation of U.S. Nationalism" THE RADICAL HISTORIAN’S ORGANIZATION, INC. Spring of 2004.)
Racial and ethnic demographic shifts within the U.S. population, particularly in
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site of highly contested meanings with tremendous consequences for those who occupy it.
Our act of critical pedagogy is crucial to understanding how knowledge bases and power structures exist and operate, as well as crucial to shedding light upon the oppressed and developing responsible social engagement.
Giroux 2013 Henry Giroux in a Jan. 20th 2013 interview with José María Barroso Tristán:, accessible here (http://www.globaleducationmagazine.com/critical-interview-henry-giroux/)
HG: First, I think it is best to think of critical pedagogy as
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with them to the classroom, and the diverse experiences and identities they inhabit
The affirmative’s critical examination and historical specificity are crucial to denaturalizing the concept of Mexican migrant "illegality" within discourse and debate
Genova 4, Nicholas De. "The Legal Production of Mexican/Migrant "Illegality"" 2004. Colombia University. http://www.nicholasdegenova.net/resources/De+Genova+-+Legal+Production+of+Mexican+Illegality.pdf.
Due to the critical function of deportation in the maintenance of the ’’revolvingdoor’’¶
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thereby naturalizing a notion of what it means to transgress¶ that law.
Our historical examination creates a social responsibility vital to the formation of a radical democracy in which the rampant inequalities the migrant workers face can be confronted.
Giroux 2013 Henry Giroux in a Jan. 20th 2013 interview with José María Barroso Tristán:, accessible here (http://www.globaleducationmagazine.com/critical-interview-henry-giroux/)
The first step would be to see education as a crucial foundation for creating the
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that is both critical and hopeful, a language of critique and possibility.