Margarita Rigal Aragón
Biographic Data
| ID | 2295101 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Margarita Rigal Aragón |
| GIVEN NAMES | Margarita Rigal |
| FAMILY NAME | Aragón |
| SIGNATURE | ARAGÓN M R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Birkbeck, University of London |
| ORCID | 0009-0008-0510-3435 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Subjects to be dealt with
In this article, I will examine the category ‘subject to be dealt with’, which was established by the 1913 Mental Deficiency Act. Designed to demonstrate the legislation's respect for individual liberty, the boundaries of the category established the grounds on which authorities had the responsibility to act upon those deemed to be ‘mentally defective’. In essence, ‘subject to be dealt with’ became the supposedly rational, measured qualifying cat…
Constructions of Racial Savagery in Early Twentieth-Century US Narratives of White Civilization
This article examines the constructions of Black “degeneracy” through which white Americans rationalized Jim Crow terror. Ruminations on African Americans’ supposed downward trajectory, I argue, drew relational meaning from a range of colonial discourses. Claims that African Americans were deteriorating outside the bonds of enslavement were articulated within wider transnational imperialist discourses circulating in this period that imagined that…
Deep-seated Abnormality
This article examines the construction of 'unfit' black masculinity in institutional and medical discourses of the American military during World War II. Examining the military medical literature on 'maladjustment' in context of the armed forces practice of segregation, I argue that by ignoring the impact of segregation, military psychiatrists reproduced linkages between blackness and 'defect.' Despite the absence of direct assertions of racial h…
Cervantes y el relato detectivesco
La figura de Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra se ha tornado en un personaje universal e inconmensurable, creador y padre no solo de inolvidables personajes como Don Quijote, sino también como padre de la novela occidental moderna. De modo similar, el escritor norteamericano Edgar Allan Poe es considerado el padre de la narración policíaca y uno de los maestros del relato corto. Si bien es el iniciador de género policíaco «moderno», con frecuencia se …
The Mexican’ and ‘The Cancer in the South’
This article explores the flexible manner in which discourses of anti-black racism were employed within congressional debates on the proposed restriction of Mexican immigration at the end of the 1920s. I examine how both sides of this debate placed Mexicans within a particular historical narrative of race and nation, positioned in relation to a range of other populations, including Chinese and Japanese immigrants, Native Americans, Filipinos and …
Civil rights and beyond
At a moment when social justice activism in the U.S. confronts an increasingly ominous political landscape, reflecting on the struggles of the past becomes acutely relevant. Mapping the complex rel
Brooklyn's promised land
In 1835, less than a decade after slavery was outlawed in New York, an African American entrepreneur bought thirty-two lots of what had been Dutch farmland in the still rural outskirts of Brooklyn
A General Separation of Colored and White
This article uses archival research to explore important differences in the discursive and institutional positioning of Mexican American and African American men during World War II. Through the focal point of the riots that erupted in Los Angeles and other major cities in the summer of 1943, I examine the ways in which black and Mexican "rioters" were imagined in official and popular discourses. Though both groups of youth were often constructed…
The difference that ‘one drop’ makes
Poe y la anticipación científica
El objetivo del presente artículo es poner de relieve la importancia que la ciencia y la pseudo-ciencia tienen en la obra del escritor estadounidense Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849). Se revisa, para ello, prácticamente la totalidad de sus escritos, no solo el grupo de relatos tradicionalmente considerados como de anticipación científica («Hans Pffaall» [1835], «The Baloon Hoax» y «Mellonta Tauta»), y que le han conducido a ganarse el título de «pione…
A General Separation of Colored and White
This article uses archival research to explore important differences in the discursive and institutional positioning of Mexican American and African American men during World War II. Through the focal point of the riots that erupted in Los Angeles and other major cities in the summer of 1943, I examine the ways in which black and Mexican "rioters" were imagined in official and popular discourses. Though both groups of youth were often constructed…
The difference that ‘one drop’ makes
Poe y la anticipación científica
El objetivo del presente artículo es poner de relieve la importancia que la ciencia y la pseudo-ciencia tienen en la obra del escritor estadounidense Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849). Se revisa, para ello, prácticamente la totalidad de sus escritos, no solo el grupo de relatos tradicionalmente considerados como de anticipación científica («Hans Pffaall» [1835], «The Baloon Hoax» y «Mellonta Tauta»), y que le han conducido a ganarse el título de «pione…
A General Separation of Colored and White
This article uses archival research to explore important differences in the discursive and institutional positioning of Mexican American and African American men during World War II. Through the focal point of the riots that erupted in Los Angeles and other major cities in the summer of 1943, I examine the ways in which black and Mexican "rioters" were imagined in official and popular discourses. Though both groups of youth were often constructed…
Brooklyn's promised land
In 1835, less than a decade after slavery was outlawed in New York, an African American entrepreneur bought thirty-two lots of what had been Dutch farmland in the still rural outskirts of Brooklyn
The Mexican’ and ‘The Cancer in the South’
This article explores the flexible manner in which discourses of anti-black racism were employed within congressional debates on the proposed restriction of Mexican immigration at the end of the 1920s. I examine how both sides of this debate placed Mexicans within a particular historical narrative of race and nation, positioned in relation to a range of other populations, including Chinese and Japanese immigrants, Native Americans, Filipinos and …
Civil rights and beyond
At a moment when social justice activism in the U.S. confronts an increasingly ominous political landscape, reflecting on the struggles of the past becomes acutely relevant. Mapping the complex rel
Cervantes y el relato detectivesco
La figura de Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra se ha tornado en un personaje universal e inconmensurable, creador y padre no solo de inolvidables personajes como Don Quijote, sino también como padre de la novela occidental moderna. De modo similar, el escritor norteamericano Edgar Allan Poe es considerado el padre de la narración policíaca y uno de los maestros del relato corto. Si bien es el iniciador de género policíaco «moderno», con frecuencia se …
Deep-seated Abnormality
This article examines the construction of 'unfit' black masculinity in institutional and medical discourses of the American military during World War II. Examining the military medical literature on 'maladjustment' in context of the armed forces practice of segregation, I argue that by ignoring the impact of segregation, military psychiatrists reproduced linkages between blackness and 'defect.' Despite the absence of direct assertions of racial h…
Constructions of Racial Savagery in Early Twentieth-Century US Narratives of White Civilization
This article examines the constructions of Black “degeneracy” through which white Americans rationalized Jim Crow terror. Ruminations on African Americans’ supposed downward trajectory, I argue, drew relational meaning from a range of colonial discourses. Claims that African Americans were deteriorating outside the bonds of enslavement were articulated within wider transnational imperialist discourses circulating in this period that imagined that…
Subjects to be dealt with
In this article, I will examine the category ‘subject to be dealt with’, which was established by the 1913 Mental Deficiency Act. Designed to demonstrate the legislation's respect for individual liberty, the boundaries of the category established the grounds on which authorities had the responsibility to act upon those deemed to be ‘mentally defective’. In essence, ‘subject to be dealt with’ became the supposedly rational, measured qualifying cat…
Sociology (8 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · History (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Race, History, and American Society (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Ethnology (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · History (4 works)