Josue David Cisneros
Biographic Data
| ID | 3450818 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Josue David Cisneros |
| GIVEN NAMES | Josue David |
| FAMILY NAME | Cisneros |
| SIGNATURE | CISNEROS J D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4735-7288 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 49 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
American Magnitude
To understand and confront this destructive legacy, American Magnitude looks behind and before the present moment, examining how this idea of American magnitude arose and evolved across US American history, and tracing the central role that Latin America plays in constituting US American national identity. It widens the historical and geopolitical scope of analysis to understand American magnitude as a “hemispheric vision” and a “public feeling” …
Brown and Down
This article analyzes several memoirs written by racialized, queer, and undocumented migrant activist artists to understand how they narrate the social and affective condition of being “alien,” and the strategies through which that marginalization is negotiated, survived, and resisted. The dialectical notion of “brownness” drawn from the work of José Muñoz and scholars of “brown” and undocuqueer rhetoric is central to this analysis. They help sho…
Free to move, free to stay, free to return
This essay presents an abolitionist vision for the study of borders in the fields of Rhetoric and Critical Communication Studies. I argue that the critical study of border(ing) rhetorics should operate from the point of view of the freedom of movement and take as its telos the abolition of borders and bordering regimes, including those of mobility, land, community, and humanity. Several shifts are needed to center this telos in our work, includin…
Minor keywords of political theory
Migration as a Critical Standpointbeginning, at the center of [our] project.Thinking about the meaning of a political concept should at the same time be a means of thinking about, and of making possible ways of intervening in, the political realities of the present" (2018:1).In this spirit, we seek to unsettle and disrupt the consensus around the selection of which keywords may be counted as vital for theorizing power, and to intervene in the pol…
Looking back, looking forward
In preparation for the special panel at RSA, a number of things in Lisa Flores’s article spurred our thinking and discussion.1 Although we began communicating over email, corroborating overarching
Racial Presidentialities
Other| September 01 2017 Racial Presidentialities: Narratives of Latinxs in the 2016 Campaign J. David Cisneros J. David Cisneros J. David Cisneros is Assistant Professor of Communication at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2017) 20 (3): 511–524. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.20.3.0511 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Linke…
The New York Young Lords and the Struggle for Liberation
Book Review| December 01 2017 The New York Young Lords and the Struggle for Liberation The New York Young Lords and the Struggle for Liberation. By Darrel Wanzer-Serrano. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2015; pp. xiv + 229. $84.50 cloth; $29.95 paper; $29.95 ebook. J. David Cisneros J. David Cisneros University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2017) …
Marco Rubio’s prospective presidentiality
Senator Marco Rubio’s (R-FL) presidential prospects have been the subject of media speculation from the moment of his election to the Senate in 2010, and these discussions only intensified when Rubio was considered a potential candidate for vice-president in the 2012 election and then was an actual candidate in 2016. This essay analyzes these discourses—including comparisons between Rubio and Obama, discussion about Rubio’s appeal to Hispanic/Lat…
New Media, Old Racisms
This article examines the phenomenon of racist speech on social media, focusing on the controversy over racist tweets about the first Indian American Miss America, Nina Davuluri. The essay highlights tensions between "old" and "new" cultural logics about race. Specifically, it explores why such an "old" form of racist discourse, which explicitly imputes racial difference and exclusion, resurfaces on social media in the era of "new" or "color-blin…
The Border Crossed Us
The Border Crossed Us
"The Border Crossed Us explores efforts to restrict and expand notions of US citizenship as they relate specifically to the US-Mexico border and Latina/o identity. Borders and citizenship go hand in hand. Borders define a nation as a territorial entity and create the parameters for national belonging. But the relationship between borders and citizenship breeds perpetual anxiety over the purported sanctity of the border, the security of a nation, …
Rhetorics of Citizenship
A voluminous body of literature on citizenship exists within rhetorical studies. Rhetorical studies of citizenship examine numerous topics and contexts, from activist rhetoric to mainstream media
Latina/o discourse in vernacular spaces
Rock the Nation
Part historiography and part critical analysis, Rock the Nation highlights an alternative and forgotten history of rock music—a history in which Latina/os played an instrumental role. However, to s
Border Rhetorics
Border Rhetorics a collection of essays that undertakes a wide-ranging examination of the US-Mexico border as it functions in the rhetorical production of civic unity in the United States.A border is a powerful and versatile concept, variously invoked as the delineation of geographical territories, as a judicial marker of citizenship, and as an ideological trope for defining inclusion and exclusion. It has implications for both the empowerment an…
(Re)Bordering the Civic Imaginary
Though the drive to limit US citizenship often takes shape through the symbolic and material exclusion of “aliens,” immigrants also engage in rhetorical struggles over the limits of the US civic imaginary. This essay examines one such challenge to the bordering logics of US citizenship—La Gran Marcha, one of the largest immigration protests of 2006. Rather than see the protest as wholly “alien,” as it was conceived of by anti-immigrant forces, or…
Contaminated Communities
Popular rhetoric about immigration often operates by constructing metaphoric representations of immigrants that concretize the social "problem" and connote particular solutions. Scholars have identified discursive connections between the rhetoric of immigration and representations of other human problems such as crime or war. This essay identifies another metaphor present in popular media coverage of immigration, particularly visual images of imm…
Minor keywords of political theory
Migration as a Critical Standpointbeginning, at the center of [our] project.Thinking about the meaning of a political concept should at the same time be a means of thinking about, and of making possible ways of intervening in, the political realities of the present" (2018:1).In this spirit, we seek to unsettle and disrupt the consensus around the selection of which keywords may be counted as vital for theorizing power, and to intervene in the pol…
New Media, Old Racisms
This article examines the phenomenon of racist speech on social media, focusing on the controversy over racist tweets about the first Indian American Miss America, Nina Davuluri. The essay highlights tensions between "old" and "new" cultural logics about race. Specifically, it explores why such an "old" form of racist discourse, which explicitly imputes racial difference and exclusion, resurfaces on social media in the era of "new" or "color-blin…
Racial Presidentialities
Other| September 01 2017 Racial Presidentialities: Narratives of Latinxs in the 2016 Campaign J. David Cisneros J. David Cisneros J. David Cisneros is Assistant Professor of Communication at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2017) 20 (3): 511–524. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.20.3.0511 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Linke…
(Re)Bordering the Civic Imaginary
Though the drive to limit US citizenship often takes shape through the symbolic and material exclusion of “aliens,” immigrants also engage in rhetorical struggles over the limits of the US civic imaginary. This essay examines one such challenge to the bordering logics of US citizenship—La Gran Marcha, one of the largest immigration protests of 2006. Rather than see the protest as wholly “alien,” as it was conceived of by anti-immigrant forces, or…
Marco Rubio’s prospective presidentiality
Senator Marco Rubio’s (R-FL) presidential prospects have been the subject of media speculation from the moment of his election to the Senate in 2010, and these discussions only intensified when Rubio was considered a potential candidate for vice-president in the 2012 election and then was an actual candidate in 2016. This essay analyzes these discourses—including comparisons between Rubio and Obama, discussion about Rubio’s appeal to Hispanic/Lat…
Rhetorics of Citizenship
A voluminous body of literature on citizenship exists within rhetorical studies. Rhetorical studies of citizenship examine numerous topics and contexts, from activist rhetoric to mainstream media
Contaminated Communities
Popular rhetoric about immigration often operates by constructing metaphoric representations of immigrants that concretize the social "problem" and connote particular solutions. Scholars have identified discursive connections between the rhetoric of immigration and representations of other human problems such as crime or war. This essay identifies another metaphor present in popular media coverage of immigration, particularly visual images of imm…
(Re)Bordering the Civic Imaginary
Though the drive to limit US citizenship often takes shape through the symbolic and material exclusion of “aliens,” immigrants also engage in rhetorical struggles over the limits of the US civic imaginary. This essay examines one such challenge to the bordering logics of US citizenship—La Gran Marcha, one of the largest immigration protests of 2006. Rather than see the protest as wholly “alien,” as it was conceived of by anti-immigrant forces, or…
Border Rhetorics
Border Rhetorics a collection of essays that undertakes a wide-ranging examination of the US-Mexico border as it functions in the rhetorical production of civic unity in the United States.A border is a powerful and versatile concept, variously invoked as the delineation of geographical territories, as a judicial marker of citizenship, and as an ideological trope for defining inclusion and exclusion. It has implications for both the empowerment an…
Latina/o discourse in vernacular spaces
Rock the Nation
Part historiography and part critical analysis, Rock the Nation highlights an alternative and forgotten history of rock music—a history in which Latina/os played an instrumental role. However, to s
The Border Crossed Us
The Border Crossed Us
"The Border Crossed Us explores efforts to restrict and expand notions of US citizenship as they relate specifically to the US-Mexico border and Latina/o identity. Borders and citizenship go hand in hand. Borders define a nation as a territorial entity and create the parameters for national belonging. But the relationship between borders and citizenship breeds perpetual anxiety over the purported sanctity of the border, the security of a nation, …
Rhetorics of Citizenship
A voluminous body of literature on citizenship exists within rhetorical studies. Rhetorical studies of citizenship examine numerous topics and contexts, from activist rhetoric to mainstream media
New Media, Old Racisms
This article examines the phenomenon of racist speech on social media, focusing on the controversy over racist tweets about the first Indian American Miss America, Nina Davuluri. The essay highlights tensions between "old" and "new" cultural logics about race. Specifically, it explores why such an "old" form of racist discourse, which explicitly imputes racial difference and exclusion, resurfaces on social media in the era of "new" or "color-blin…
Racial Presidentialities
Other| September 01 2017 Racial Presidentialities: Narratives of Latinxs in the 2016 Campaign J. David Cisneros J. David Cisneros J. David Cisneros is Assistant Professor of Communication at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2017) 20 (3): 511–524. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.20.3.0511 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Linke…
The New York Young Lords and the Struggle for Liberation
Book Review| December 01 2017 The New York Young Lords and the Struggle for Liberation The New York Young Lords and the Struggle for Liberation. By Darrel Wanzer-Serrano. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2015; pp. xiv + 229. $84.50 cloth; $29.95 paper; $29.95 ebook. J. David Cisneros J. David Cisneros University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2017) …
Marco Rubio’s prospective presidentiality
Senator Marco Rubio’s (R-FL) presidential prospects have been the subject of media speculation from the moment of his election to the Senate in 2010, and these discussions only intensified when Rubio was considered a potential candidate for vice-president in the 2012 election and then was an actual candidate in 2016. This essay analyzes these discourses—including comparisons between Rubio and Obama, discussion about Rubio’s appeal to Hispanic/Lat…
Looking back, looking forward
In preparation for the special panel at RSA, a number of things in Lisa Flores’s article spurred our thinking and discussion.1 Although we began communicating over email, corroborating overarching
Free to move, free to stay, free to return
This essay presents an abolitionist vision for the study of borders in the fields of Rhetoric and Critical Communication Studies. I argue that the critical study of border(ing) rhetorics should operate from the point of view of the freedom of movement and take as its telos the abolition of borders and bordering regimes, including those of mobility, land, community, and humanity. Several shifts are needed to center this telos in our work, includin…
Minor keywords of political theory
Migration as a Critical Standpointbeginning, at the center of [our] project.Thinking about the meaning of a political concept should at the same time be a means of thinking about, and of making possible ways of intervening in, the political realities of the present" (2018:1).In this spirit, we seek to unsettle and disrupt the consensus around the selection of which keywords may be counted as vital for theorizing power, and to intervene in the pol…
American Magnitude
To understand and confront this destructive legacy, American Magnitude looks behind and before the present moment, examining how this idea of American magnitude arose and evolved across US American history, and tracing the central role that Latin America plays in constituting US American national identity. It widens the historical and geopolitical scope of analysis to understand American magnitude as a “hemispheric vision” and a “public feeling” …
Brown and Down
This article analyzes several memoirs written by racialized, queer, and undocumented migrant activist artists to understand how they narrate the social and affective condition of being “alien,” and the strategies through which that marginalization is negotiated, survived, and resisted. The dialectical notion of “brownness” drawn from the work of José Muñoz and scholars of “brown” and undocuqueer rhetoric is central to this analysis. They help sho…
Sociology (15 works) · Political science (13 works) · Law (12 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · Latin American and Latino Studies (8 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Politics (8 works) · Rhetoric and Communication Studies (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Linguistics (5 works)