Cassaundra Rodríguez
Biographic Data
| ID | 3649782 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cassaundra Rodríguez |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cassaundra |
| FAMILY NAME | Rodríguez |
| SIGNATURE | RODRIGUEZ C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nevada, Las Vegas |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1456-0458 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 54 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The affective bargain: How the Latino children of immigrants create joy, love, and pride through mariachi
Contested Americans: Mixed-Status Families in Anti-Immigrant Times
Reveals the impossible choices and downright terror mixed-status families often face for their loved ones Living in a mixed-status immigrant family might mean that your grandmother could be deported at any moment, your son could be arrested at work, or your mother’s deportation hearing is postponed—again. Such uncertainty and fear are the reality of life for mixed-status families—those that include both undocumented immigrants and US citizens. In…
Controlling images of immigrants in the mainstream and Black press: The discursive power of the “illegal Latino
Latino/a Citizen Children of Undocumented Parents Negotiating Illegality
Objective: The objective of this study is to examine how citizen young adults with undocumented parents manage parental illegality.Background: These citizen young adults are part of mixed-status families, which consist of members with different immigration statuses and often include U.S. citizen and undocumented immigrant family members. With 16 million people in mixed-status families, scholars are beginning to capture their unique experiences, b…
Fueling White Injury Ideology: Public Officials' Racial Discourse in Support of Arizona Senate Bill 1070
In a seemingly post-racial moment in 2010, Arizona's Senate Bill (SB) 1070 was under fire and challenged as racially discriminatory. While the 2010 immigration bill was popular among white Arizonians, critics charged that SB 1070 could facilitate the racial profiling of all Latinos/as in state law enforcement officers' efforts to check the legal status of those they suspect are undocumented. Analyzing 70 recordings from the Arizona house floor, p…
Different Game, Different Frame: Black Counterdiscourses and Depictions of Immigration in Atlanta's African-American and Mainstream Press
This article compares the discourse on immigration found in Atlanta's African-American press (Atlanta Daily World) to that found in Atlanta's mainstream press (Atlanta Journal-Constitution). The Daily World's black counterdiscourse situates immigration within a racial frame, discussing Latinos and immigrants interchangeably and casting African Americans as deserving yet excluded citizens. Immigrants appear in the Daily World as either allies in t…
Experiencing ‘Illegality’ as a Family? Immigration Enforcement, Social Policies, and Discourses Targeting Mexican Mixed‐Status Families
Mexican mixed‐status families have been front and center in embroiled national debates about the place of undocumented immigrants and their citizen family members in this country. These families face unique obstacles, including possible family fragmentation caused by deportation, challenges to birthright citizenship, and they are often targeted by anti‐immigrant elected officials and political pundits that perpetuate a racialized discourse that c…
Transatlantic Feminisms: Women and Gender Studies in Africa and the Diaspora
Provides an interdisciplinary collection of original feminist research on women's lives in Africa and the African diaspora. Demonstrating the power and value of transcontinental connections and exchanges between feminist thinkers, this collection of fifteen essays addresses the need for global perspectives on gender, ethnicity, race and class. Core themes of the book include the evolution of black feminism; black feminist political leadership; th…
Mexican Americans and the Question of Race
Experiencing ‘Illegality’ as a Family? Immigration Enforcement, Social Policies, and Discourses Targeting Mexican Mixed‐Status Families
Mexican mixed‐status families have been front and center in embroiled national debates about the place of undocumented immigrants and their citizen family members in this country. These families face unique obstacles, including possible family fragmentation caused by deportation, challenges to birthright citizenship, and they are often targeted by anti‐immigrant elected officials and political pundits that perpetuate a racialized discourse that c…
Controlling images of immigrants in the mainstream and Black press: The discursive power of the “illegal Latino
Latino/a Citizen Children of Undocumented Parents Negotiating Illegality
Objective: The objective of this study is to examine how citizen young adults with undocumented parents manage parental illegality.Background: These citizen young adults are part of mixed-status families, which consist of members with different immigration statuses and often include U.S. citizen and undocumented immigrant family members. With 16 million people in mixed-status families, scholars are beginning to capture their unique experiences, b…
Fueling White Injury Ideology: Public Officials' Racial Discourse in Support of Arizona Senate Bill 1070
In a seemingly post-racial moment in 2010, Arizona's Senate Bill (SB) 1070 was under fire and challenged as racially discriminatory. While the 2010 immigration bill was popular among white Arizonians, critics charged that SB 1070 could facilitate the racial profiling of all Latinos/as in state law enforcement officers' efforts to check the legal status of those they suspect are undocumented. Analyzing 70 recordings from the Arizona house floor, p…
Transatlantic Feminisms: Women and Gender Studies in Africa and the Diaspora
Provides an interdisciplinary collection of original feminist research on women's lives in Africa and the African diaspora. Demonstrating the power and value of transcontinental connections and exchanges between feminist thinkers, this collection of fifteen essays addresses the need for global perspectives on gender, ethnicity, race and class. Core themes of the book include the evolution of black feminism; black feminist political leadership; th…
Mexican Americans and the Question of Race
Different Game, Different Frame: Black Counterdiscourses and Depictions of Immigration in Atlanta's African-American and Mainstream Press
This article compares the discourse on immigration found in Atlanta's African-American press (Atlanta Daily World) to that found in Atlanta's mainstream press (Atlanta Journal-Constitution). The Daily World's black counterdiscourse situates immigration within a racial frame, discussing Latinos and immigrants interchangeably and casting African Americans as deserving yet excluded citizens. Immigrants appear in the Daily World as either allies in t…
Experiencing ‘Illegality’ as a Family? Immigration Enforcement, Social Policies, and Discourses Targeting Mexican Mixed‐Status Families
Mexican mixed‐status families have been front and center in embroiled national debates about the place of undocumented immigrants and their citizen family members in this country. These families face unique obstacles, including possible family fragmentation caused by deportation, challenges to birthright citizenship, and they are often targeted by anti‐immigrant elected officials and political pundits that perpetuate a racialized discourse that c…
Fueling White Injury Ideology: Public Officials' Racial Discourse in Support of Arizona Senate Bill 1070
In a seemingly post-racial moment in 2010, Arizona's Senate Bill (SB) 1070 was under fire and challenged as racially discriminatory. While the 2010 immigration bill was popular among white Arizonians, critics charged that SB 1070 could facilitate the racial profiling of all Latinos/as in state law enforcement officers' efforts to check the legal status of those they suspect are undocumented. Analyzing 70 recordings from the Arizona house floor, p…
Latino/a Citizen Children of Undocumented Parents Negotiating Illegality
Objective: The objective of this study is to examine how citizen young adults with undocumented parents manage parental illegality.Background: These citizen young adults are part of mixed-status families, which consist of members with different immigration statuses and often include U.S. citizen and undocumented immigrant family members. With 16 million people in mixed-status families, scholars are beginning to capture their unique experiences, b…
Controlling images of immigrants in the mainstream and Black press: The discursive power of the “illegal Latino
Contested Americans: Mixed-Status Families in Anti-Immigrant Times
Reveals the impossible choices and downright terror mixed-status families often face for their loved ones Living in a mixed-status immigrant family might mean that your grandmother could be deported at any moment, your son could be arrested at work, or your mother’s deportation hearing is postponed—again. Such uncertainty and fear are the reality of life for mixed-status families—those that include both undocumented immigrants and US citizens. In…
The affective bargain: How the Latino children of immigrants create joy, love, and pride through mariachi
Political science (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Immigration (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Criminology (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Migration, Health and Trauma (4 works)