Margaret E Dorsey
Biographic Data
| ID | 1449424 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Margaret E Dorsey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Margaret E |
| FAMILY NAME | Dorsey |
| SIGNATURE | DORSEY M E |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Citizenship
Since the 1990s, citizenship has been transformed into an anthropological genre. Anthropologists have employed terms such as “transnational,” “insurgent,” and “patriotic” to describe the subjective, cultural, and political dimensions of citizenship. Anthropologists have also differentiated between formal and substantive, legal and cultural, and full and partial citizenship to theorize the disjunction between the promise of state‐granted rights an…
Latinx Communities Organize and Resist
Trump's Wall and the Dictator Aesthetic
Rasquache Aesthetics and the Unmonumental Border
Anthropology, Art, and the US-Mexico Border Wall
The Constitution Free Zone in the United States
Residents of South Texas live in a "Constitution free zone," as one of our informants explained. Court rulings have declared that the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution does not apply at checkpoints and spaces up to 100 miles north of the U.S.-Mexican border. This article draws upon Agamben's arguments about "states of exception" and Foucault's notion of the "carceral state" to show that border residents live in a state of legal exception, in w…
Beyond Surveillance and Moonscapes
This article argues that visual representations of the U.S.–Mexico border wall in the popular media, including Time Magazine and National Geographic, portray the border region as lifeless and desolate. These representations negate the possibility of viewing the border as a dynamic and diverse area that is verdant and home to communities and rich cultural histories. The article begins with an overview of popular representations of the U.S.–Mexico …
Senator Barack Obama and Immigration Reform
Senator Barack Obama played a key role in supporting bipartisan efforts led by Senators John McCain and Edward Kennedy to legislate “comprehensive immigration reform.” This new legislation calls for augmenting border security, enforcing employer sanctions for firms that hire “undocumented workers,” and creating a path to “earned” citizenship for workers already in the United States. The authors argue that Senator Obama uses a “both . . . and” rat…
The Significance of Supporting Ethnographic Research in the US
Borderland Music as Symbolic Forms of Nationalisms
In nationalism narratives females frequently function to justify, support, and frame the exploits of males, who "embody the essential virtues" of the national community.2 Authors often script the female character into the patriarchal archetypes of virgin (La Virgen de Guadalupe) and whore (La Malinche).3 Constructed and reified in these archetypes of passive or proactive, respectively, the former can be seen as maintaining the established order w…
Report From the Field
The Constitution Free Zone in the United States
Residents of South Texas live in a "Constitution free zone," as one of our informants explained. Court rulings have declared that the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution does not apply at checkpoints and spaces up to 100 miles north of the U.S.-Mexican border. This article draws upon Agamben's arguments about "states of exception" and Foucault's notion of the "carceral state" to show that border residents live in a state of legal exception, in w…
Beyond Surveillance and Moonscapes
This article argues that visual representations of the U.S.–Mexico border wall in the popular media, including Time Magazine and National Geographic, portray the border region as lifeless and desolate. These representations negate the possibility of viewing the border as a dynamic and diverse area that is verdant and home to communities and rich cultural histories. The article begins with an overview of popular representations of the U.S.–Mexico …
Rasquache Aesthetics and the Unmonumental Border
Borderland Music as Symbolic Forms of Nationalisms
In nationalism narratives females frequently function to justify, support, and frame the exploits of males, who "embody the essential virtues" of the national community.2 Authors often script the female character into the patriarchal archetypes of virgin (La Virgen de Guadalupe) and whore (La Malinche).3 Constructed and reified in these archetypes of passive or proactive, respectively, the former can be seen as maintaining the established order w…
Report From the Field
Borderland Music as Symbolic Forms of Nationalisms
In nationalism narratives females frequently function to justify, support, and frame the exploits of males, who "embody the essential virtues" of the national community.2 Authors often script the female character into the patriarchal archetypes of virgin (La Virgen de Guadalupe) and whore (La Malinche).3 Constructed and reified in these archetypes of passive or proactive, respectively, the former can be seen as maintaining the established order w…
The Significance of Supporting Ethnographic Research in the US
Senator Barack Obama and Immigration Reform
Senator Barack Obama played a key role in supporting bipartisan efforts led by Senators John McCain and Edward Kennedy to legislate “comprehensive immigration reform.” This new legislation calls for augmenting border security, enforcing employer sanctions for firms that hire “undocumented workers,” and creating a path to “earned” citizenship for workers already in the United States. The authors argue that Senator Obama uses a “both . . . and” rat…
Beyond Surveillance and Moonscapes
This article argues that visual representations of the U.S.–Mexico border wall in the popular media, including Time Magazine and National Geographic, portray the border region as lifeless and desolate. These representations negate the possibility of viewing the border as a dynamic and diverse area that is verdant and home to communities and rich cultural histories. The article begins with an overview of popular representations of the U.S.–Mexico …
The Constitution Free Zone in the United States
Residents of South Texas live in a "Constitution free zone," as one of our informants explained. Court rulings have declared that the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution does not apply at checkpoints and spaces up to 100 miles north of the U.S.-Mexican border. This article draws upon Agamben's arguments about "states of exception" and Foucault's notion of the "carceral state" to show that border residents live in a state of legal exception, in w…
Anthropology, Art, and the US-Mexico Border Wall
Latinx Communities Organize and Resist
Trump's Wall and the Dictator Aesthetic
Rasquache Aesthetics and the Unmonumental Border
Citizenship
Since the 1990s, citizenship has been transformed into an anthropological genre. Anthropologists have employed terms such as “transnational,” “insurgent,” and “patriotic” to describe the subjective, cultural, and political dimensions of citizenship. Anthropologists have also differentiated between formal and substantive, legal and cultural, and full and partial citizenship to theorize the disjunction between the promise of state‐granted rights an…
Sociology (9 works) · Citation (5 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Library science (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · History (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Media studies (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Latin American and Latino Studies (3 works)