Sujey Vega
Biographic Data
| ID | 152123 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sujey Vega |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sujey |
| FAMILY NAME | Vega |
| SIGNATURE | VEGA S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Arizona State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
A Chosen People, a Promised Land: Mormonism and Race in Hawai’i
Book Review| January 01 2020 A Chosen People, a Promised Land: Mormonism and Race in Hawai’i Hokulani K. Aikau. A Chosen People, a Promised Land: Mormonism and Race in Hawai’i. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2012. Sujey Vega Sujey Vega Reviewed by Sujey Vega is an associate professor of women and gender studies at Arizona State University. Her research includes interdisciplinary ethnographic and archival analysis of Latinos in the US…
Intersectional hermanas: LDS Latinas navigate faith, leadership and sisterhood
Race and the Making of the Mormon People
Max Perry Mueller's Race and the Making of the Mormon People successfully lays bare the problems with racism and conceptualizations of belonging that plague the history of Mormonism. Mueller complicates how race was initially imagined and later transformed. Unlike the national fervor of many toward chattel slavery and native genocide, Mormons conceptualized race differences through much more fluid possibilities. Readers might be astonished to lea…
Latino Heartland: Of Borders and Belonging in the Midwest
Protection Order Use Among Latina Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence
This mixed-methods study examines the impact of immigration status on the ability of Latina survivors of intimate partner violence (IPV) to file for and obtain a domestic violence protection order. Undocumented Latinas living in shelters are less likely to know what a protection order is or how to obtain one. At the same time, undocumented Latinas are more likely to believe that their partner would follow an order and that police would arrest the…
Latino Heartland: Of Borders and Belonging in the Midwest
Addresses the politics of immigration, in the everyday lives of one community National immigration debates have thrust both opponents of immigration and immigrant rights supporters into the news. But what happens once the rallies end and the banners come down? What is daily life like for Latinos who have been presented nationally as “terrorists, drug smugglers, alien gangs, and violent criminals”? Latino Heartland offers an ethnography of the Lat…
The Politics of Everyday Life: Mexican Hoosiers and Ethnic Belonging at the Crossroads of America
As state-based legislative measures continue to target undocumented immigrants in an all too familiar politics of belonging, the narratives of immigrants themselves remain marginalized. The following argues for the recuperation of voices elided by popular discourse and provides a space to explore the manifestations of belonging for Mexican residents. This type of belonging, what I am terming ethnic belonging, reconciles U.S. nationalism with ethn…
Neo-liberal restructuring and the poultry industry in Mexico. The north moves south and the south moves north
Race, Place, and Reform in Mexican Los Angeles: A Transnational Perspective, 1890-1940 - by Lewthwaite, Stephanie
Racism on Trial the Chicano Fight for JusticeIan F. Haney Lopez; Cambridge, MA: Belknap/Harvard University Press, 2003, 324 pages
In this book, Haney Lopez proposes and develops the notion of common sense racism in the context of the Chicano Movement in Los Angeles in 1968. Through the narration of the events the author expli
Protection Order Use Among Latina Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence
This mixed-methods study examines the impact of immigration status on the ability of Latina survivors of intimate partner violence (IPV) to file for and obtain a domestic violence protection order. Undocumented Latinas living in shelters are less likely to know what a protection order is or how to obtain one. At the same time, undocumented Latinas are more likely to believe that their partner would follow an order and that police would arrest the…
The Politics of Everyday Life: Mexican Hoosiers and Ethnic Belonging at the Crossroads of America
As state-based legislative measures continue to target undocumented immigrants in an all too familiar politics of belonging, the narratives of immigrants themselves remain marginalized. The following argues for the recuperation of voices elided by popular discourse and provides a space to explore the manifestations of belonging for Mexican residents. This type of belonging, what I am terming ethnic belonging, reconciles U.S. nationalism with ethn…
Intersectional hermanas: LDS Latinas navigate faith, leadership and sisterhood
Race and the Making of the Mormon People
Max Perry Mueller's Race and the Making of the Mormon People successfully lays bare the problems with racism and conceptualizations of belonging that plague the history of Mormonism. Mueller complicates how race was initially imagined and later transformed. Unlike the national fervor of many toward chattel slavery and native genocide, Mormons conceptualized race differences through much more fluid possibilities. Readers might be astonished to lea…
Racism on Trial the Chicano Fight for JusticeIan F. Haney Lopez; Cambridge, MA: Belknap/Harvard University Press, 2003, 324 pages
In this book, Haney Lopez proposes and develops the notion of common sense racism in the context of the Chicano Movement in Los Angeles in 1968. Through the narration of the events the author expli
Neo-liberal restructuring and the poultry industry in Mexico. The north moves south and the south moves north
Race, Place, and Reform in Mexican Los Angeles: A Transnational Perspective, 1890-1940 - by Lewthwaite, Stephanie
The Politics of Everyday Life: Mexican Hoosiers and Ethnic Belonging at the Crossroads of America
As state-based legislative measures continue to target undocumented immigrants in an all too familiar politics of belonging, the narratives of immigrants themselves remain marginalized. The following argues for the recuperation of voices elided by popular discourse and provides a space to explore the manifestations of belonging for Mexican residents. This type of belonging, what I am terming ethnic belonging, reconciles U.S. nationalism with ethn…
Latino Heartland: Of Borders and Belonging in the Midwest
Addresses the politics of immigration, in the everyday lives of one community National immigration debates have thrust both opponents of immigration and immigrant rights supporters into the news. But what happens once the rallies end and the banners come down? What is daily life like for Latinos who have been presented nationally as “terrorists, drug smugglers, alien gangs, and violent criminals”? Latino Heartland offers an ethnography of the Lat…
Latino Heartland: Of Borders and Belonging in the Midwest
Protection Order Use Among Latina Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence
This mixed-methods study examines the impact of immigration status on the ability of Latina survivors of intimate partner violence (IPV) to file for and obtain a domestic violence protection order. Undocumented Latinas living in shelters are less likely to know what a protection order is or how to obtain one. At the same time, undocumented Latinas are more likely to believe that their partner would follow an order and that police would arrest the…
Intersectional hermanas: LDS Latinas navigate faith, leadership and sisterhood
Race and the Making of the Mormon People
Max Perry Mueller's Race and the Making of the Mormon People successfully lays bare the problems with racism and conceptualizations of belonging that plague the history of Mormonism. Mueller complicates how race was initially imagined and later transformed. Unlike the national fervor of many toward chattel slavery and native genocide, Mormons conceptualized race differences through much more fluid possibilities. Readers might be astonished to lea…
A Chosen People, a Promised Land: Mormonism and Race in Hawai’i
Book Review| January 01 2020 A Chosen People, a Promised Land: Mormonism and Race in Hawai’i Hokulani K. Aikau. A Chosen People, a Promised Land: Mormonism and Race in Hawai’i. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2012. Sujey Vega Sujey Vega Reviewed by Sujey Vega is an associate professor of women and gender studies at Arizona State University. Her research includes interdisciplinary ethnographic and archival analysis of Latinos in the US…
Latin American and Latino Studies (7 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · History (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works)