Next of Kin

Rodríguez, Richard T.

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“…Furthermore, when the family becomes the cornerstone of social justice movements without an analysis of heteronormativity, it harms migrants of color, particularly those who are queer, as documented by the Audre Lorde Project, also based in New York and allied with FFF (Audre Lorde Project 2004). At the same time, scholarship on the political use of families in Chicano nationalism instructs us about the place of la familia as the centerpiece of its resistance to the pathological representations of Mexican and Mexican American culture, as a site of privileging reproductive kinship, and as a catalyst for alternative formulations of kinship and desire (Rodríguez 2009;Zinn 1975).…”

Section: Why Families? Criminality and Illegible Kinshipsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“Don’t Deport Our Daddies”

Gupta

2013

Gender & Society

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New York based Families For Freedom (FFF) is among a handful of organizations that directly organize deportees and their families. Analyzing the organization's resignification of criminalized men of color as caregivers, I argue that current deportation policies and practices reorganize care work and kinship while tying gender and sexuality to national belonging. These policies and practices severely compromise the ability of migrant communities to socially reproduce themselves. Furthermore, the convergence of criminalization and immigration enforcement renders the kinship ties of deportable men illegible, and justifies their separation from their loved ones. Since FFF publicly supports men with criminal convictions, it reveals that its members become targets of deportation precisely because they do not and cannot conform to heteronormative prescriptions.

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Section: Why Families? Criminality and Illegible Kinshipsmentioning

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“Don’t Deport Our Daddies”

Gupta

2013

Gender & Society

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“…To quote Rodríguez, "shooting the patriarch" symbolizes "the now-common move in Chicano/a and other ethnic studies scholarship to heavy-handedly render cultural nationalism the enemy that inherently generates sexism and homophobia." 18 In Urban Triage James Kyung-Jin Lee offers a different, but related, way to read unforgiveable characters, the younger generations that leave them, and the places they leave behind. As he suggests, literature works in the age of multiculturalism to "teach us how to abandon people."…”

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“If I Turn into a Boy, I Don't Think I Want Huevos”

Cacho¹

2012

GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies

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Dad loved paydays, and after a beer or two, he play-wrestled with me and Corin, then tickled us till we screamed. But the problem was you never knew what would make him mad. One minute he was laughing and playing. Next thing you know, bam! He's lashing across our legs with a doubled belt. I don't even remember what started it."Qué chinga! Son-na-va-biche! Marci, I -am -sick -andtired -of -you -and Corin -and your -pinche -mierda!"He liked to yell at us while he hit us. "I've -told -you -time -and -again not to do this!" -Carla Mari Trujillo, What Night Brings Marci Cruz is the eleven-year-old queer Chicana/Mexican American protagonist of Carla Trujillo's novel What Night Brings (2003). 1 The domestic violence in Marci's home is a "time and again" recurring scene that escalates in intensity as the novel progresses, always provoked by only "this." "This" is Marci's queer female masculinity, her gender nonconformity and sexual nonnormativity; "this" is the noncompliant, defiant behavior of her sister, Corin. "This" is both children refusing "time and again" to be the good girls they are being raised to be. As Marci indicates, she and Corin are not protected by the economic security Eddie's paycheck should bring. When economic stability frames how child abuse is narrated, it complicates reading the violent insistence of patriarchal authority in working-class families of color as an unfortunate, but understandable, consequence of racism and exploitation.

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L atino/a Theory

Aldama¹

2010

The Encyclopedia of Literary and Cultural Theory

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Latino/a theory covers a massive range of disciplinary pursuits and explorations. Given that we are and have been active shapers of all facets of our North American reality, such scholarly impulses seek to make visible the culture, history, and presence of Latino/as in the US. This essay will map the territory that makes up contemporary or “postclassical” theories of Latino/a cultural production that build on and extend classical Latino/a studies theory.

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Next of Kin

Cited by 123 publications

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“Don’t Deport Our Daddies”

“Don’t Deport Our Daddies”

“If I Turn into a Boy, I Don't Think I Want Huevos”

L atino/a Theory

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