C R Lugo-Lugo
Biographic Data
| ID | 13551 |
|---|---|
| NAME | C R Lugo-Lugo |
| GIVEN NAMES | C R |
| FAMILY NAME | Lugo-Lugo |
| SIGNATURE | LUGO-LUGO C R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Washington State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5097-0684 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 19 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Science, Medicine, and Monsters in Today’s American Popular Imaginary
In this article, we maintain that the current distrust in science and medicine displayed by many Americans can be traced through twenty-first century popular culture texts, especially those dealing with monsters. As other scholars have noted, during stressful socio-cultural, historical, and (now) global moments, monsters tend to “(re)emerge” in popular narratives (Kellner, 2011), becoming an embodiment of the unease that these moments elicit (Lev…
Managing life and managing death
The medicalisation of threats, immigration as contagion, and White supremacy in an age of terror
The 6 January 2021 events must be analysed within a broader context than the phenomenon of Trumpism. The attempted coup that brought together (former) members of the military, White supremacist organisations, and regular citizens has a rich genealogy. We trace this genealogy to the events of 11 September 2001 and the homeland security state built in their wake, even as its reach extends further into U.S. history. Post-9/11 discourse became a mech…
The Essential Crowd
During the spring of 2020, public messaging in the United States regarding COVID-19 conveyed the idea that pandemics and viral infections strike people from 'all walks of life' and that 'diseases know no borders'. Corporations and media outlets disseminated the message that 'we are all in this together'. While there might be some truth in these messages, they have also been challenged as existing social inequalities have been exposed by the impac…
Social Death in the Times of a Pandemic
Certain populations’ very humanity is represented as something that one becomes or achieves, that one must earn because it cannot just be.–Lisa Marie CachoIn May 2020, the United States was approac
Fears of Contagion and Militarized Responses to Disaster After 9/11
The boundaries of nation states ... are increasingly permeable by all kinds of flaws. Nothing can bring back the hygienic shields of colonial boundaries.The age of globalization is the age of univers
Feminism after 9/11
This book is about social phenomena that directly acknowledge the structures and ideologies emerging after September 11, 2001. It considers how these structures and ideologies manage, control, and con
Containing (Un)American Bodies in Arizona
Bare Biceps and American (In)Security
Bare Biceps and American (In)Security: Post-9/11 Constructions of Safe(ty), Threat, and the First Black First Lady Carmen R. Lugo-Lugo (bio) and Mary K. Bloodsworth-Lugo (bio) [The] stigmatization of African American women becomes thought and practice for each new generation of white Americans. Unfavorable images of black women, like other tainted racial images in the typical white mind, are significant for the survival of the dominant ideology. …
Containing (Un)American Bodies
From September 11
Under US leadership, political structures in the post-9/11 world have developed and deployed rhetorical techniques aimed at identifying, excluding, and prosecuting specific bodies. In this paper, we analyze governmental and cultural rhetoric in the United States during 2006 on the issues of immigration (including immigration policies and proposed reform) and same-sex marriage (including bans to same-sex marriage via constitutional amendments), an…
Animated Representations of Blackness
Black as Brown
Citizenship and the Browning of Terror
From now on it can never be the same as before ‘cause the place I'm from doesn't exist anymore. —Immortal Technique Today, at the start of a new century, we are again engaged in a war unlike any ou
So you are a mestiza
This paper intends to open a dialogue about the use of two specific labels in the US (i.e. 'Chicanas' and 'Latinas'), with a special emphasis on how they are used in the US academy as both markers and identities. More specifically, this paper explores recent trends in the US academy by which women of Latin American descent are lumped together under the rubric Latinas, and in many cases assumed to be equivalent to Chicanas. Arguing that academia m…
Fluid Borders
"The War on Terror"and Same-sex Marriage
National Performances
The Madonna Experience
I wanna conquer the world," stated Madonna Louise Veronica Cicconne in a Behind the Music performance. "See, I get what I want. . . . I do what I want with my life. . . . Absolutely no regrets. . . . I'm really good at provoking. . . . I'm really good at getting people's attention." When I was growing up in Puerto Rico, where the word "feminism" had to struggle for a place in the national lexicon, Madonna was an icon of teenage female rebellion, …
Black as Brown
So you are a mestiza
This paper intends to open a dialogue about the use of two specific labels in the US (i.e. 'Chicanas' and 'Latinas'), with a special emphasis on how they are used in the US academy as both markers and identities. More specifically, this paper explores recent trends in the US academy by which women of Latin American descent are lumped together under the rubric Latinas, and in many cases assumed to be equivalent to Chicanas. Arguing that academia m…
Citizenship and the Browning of Terror
From now on it can never be the same as before ‘cause the place I'm from doesn't exist anymore. —Immortal Technique Today, at the start of a new century, we are again engaged in a war unlike any ou
Bare Biceps and American (In)Security
Bare Biceps and American (In)Security: Post-9/11 Constructions of Safe(ty), Threat, and the First Black First Lady Carmen R. Lugo-Lugo (bio) and Mary K. Bloodsworth-Lugo (bio) [The] stigmatization of African American women becomes thought and practice for each new generation of white Americans. Unfavorable images of black women, like other tainted racial images in the typical white mind, are significant for the survival of the dominant ideology. …
"The War on Terror"and Same-sex Marriage
The medicalisation of threats, immigration as contagion, and White supremacy in an age of terror
The 6 January 2021 events must be analysed within a broader context than the phenomenon of Trumpism. The attempted coup that brought together (former) members of the military, White supremacist organisations, and regular citizens has a rich genealogy. We trace this genealogy to the events of 11 September 2001 and the homeland security state built in their wake, even as its reach extends further into U.S. history. Post-9/11 discourse became a mech…
Fears of Contagion and Militarized Responses to Disaster After 9/11
The boundaries of nation states ... are increasingly permeable by all kinds of flaws. Nothing can bring back the hygienic shields of colonial boundaries.The age of globalization is the age of univers
Fluid Borders
The Madonna Experience
I wanna conquer the world," stated Madonna Louise Veronica Cicconne in a Behind the Music performance. "See, I get what I want. . . . I do what I want with my life. . . . Absolutely no regrets. . . . I'm really good at provoking. . . . I'm really good at getting people's attention." When I was growing up in Puerto Rico, where the word "feminism" had to struggle for a place in the national lexicon, Madonna was an icon of teenage female rebellion, …
The Madonna Experience
I wanna conquer the world," stated Madonna Louise Veronica Cicconne in a Behind the Music performance. "See, I get what I want. . . . I do what I want with my life. . . . Absolutely no regrets. . . . I'm really good at provoking. . . . I'm really good at getting people's attention." When I was growing up in Puerto Rico, where the word "feminism" had to struggle for a place in the national lexicon, Madonna was an icon of teenage female rebellion, …
National Performances
"The War on Terror"and Same-sex Marriage
Fluid Borders
Black as Brown
Citizenship and the Browning of Terror
From now on it can never be the same as before ‘cause the place I'm from doesn't exist anymore. —Immortal Technique Today, at the start of a new century, we are again engaged in a war unlike any ou
So you are a mestiza
This paper intends to open a dialogue about the use of two specific labels in the US (i.e. 'Chicanas' and 'Latinas'), with a special emphasis on how they are used in the US academy as both markers and identities. More specifically, this paper explores recent trends in the US academy by which women of Latin American descent are lumped together under the rubric Latinas, and in many cases assumed to be equivalent to Chicanas. Arguing that academia m…
Containing (Un)American Bodies
From September 11
Under US leadership, political structures in the post-9/11 world have developed and deployed rhetorical techniques aimed at identifying, excluding, and prosecuting specific bodies. In this paper, we analyze governmental and cultural rhetoric in the United States during 2006 on the issues of immigration (including immigration policies and proposed reform) and same-sex marriage (including bans to same-sex marriage via constitutional amendments), an…
Animated Representations of Blackness
Bare Biceps and American (In)Security
Bare Biceps and American (In)Security: Post-9/11 Constructions of Safe(ty), Threat, and the First Black First Lady Carmen R. Lugo-Lugo (bio) and Mary K. Bloodsworth-Lugo (bio) [The] stigmatization of African American women becomes thought and practice for each new generation of white Americans. Unfavorable images of black women, like other tainted racial images in the typical white mind, are significant for the survival of the dominant ideology. …
Containing (Un)American Bodies in Arizona
Feminism after 9/11
This book is about social phenomena that directly acknowledge the structures and ideologies emerging after September 11, 2001. It considers how these structures and ideologies manage, control, and con
Fears of Contagion and Militarized Responses to Disaster After 9/11
The boundaries of nation states ... are increasingly permeable by all kinds of flaws. Nothing can bring back the hygienic shields of colonial boundaries.The age of globalization is the age of univers
Social Death in the Times of a Pandemic
Certain populations’ very humanity is represented as something that one becomes or achieves, that one must earn because it cannot just be.–Lisa Marie CachoIn May 2020, the United States was approac
The medicalisation of threats, immigration as contagion, and White supremacy in an age of terror
The 6 January 2021 events must be analysed within a broader context than the phenomenon of Trumpism. The attempted coup that brought together (former) members of the military, White supremacist organisations, and regular citizens has a rich genealogy. We trace this genealogy to the events of 11 September 2001 and the homeland security state built in their wake, even as its reach extends further into U.S. history. Post-9/11 discourse became a mech…
The Essential Crowd
During the spring of 2020, public messaging in the United States regarding COVID-19 conveyed the idea that pandemics and viral infections strike people from 'all walks of life' and that 'diseases know no borders'. Corporations and media outlets disseminated the message that 'we are all in this together'. While there might be some truth in these messages, they have also been challenged as existing social inequalities have been exposed by the impac…
Managing life and managing death
Science, Medicine, and Monsters in Today’s American Popular Imaginary
In this article, we maintain that the current distrust in science and medicine displayed by many Americans can be traced through twenty-first century popular culture texts, especially those dealing with monsters. As other scholars have noted, during stressful socio-cultural, historical, and (now) global moments, monsters tend to “(re)emerge” in popular narratives (Kellner, 2011), becoming an embodiment of the unease that these moments elicit (Lev…
Political science (17 works) · Law (13 works) · Politics (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Political economy (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · History (4 works)