Oscar Alfonso Mejía
Biographic Data
| ID | 6743206 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Oscar Alfonso Mejía |
| GIVEN NAMES | Oscar Alfonso |
| FAMILY NAME | Mejía |
| SIGNATURE | MEJÍA O A |
| AFFILIATIONS | California State University Los Angeles |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Migrant rhetoric as refuge ness
Deportable and Disposable
Lisa Flores's Deportable and Disposable discusses how public discourse reflects the constitution of Mexican identities, as they are racialized against U.S. nation-state xenophobia and economic needs. The book analyzes racialization in the early twentieth century, illustrating how Mexican migrants became “perpetually returnable,” “temporary, cheap labor,” understood as “deportable and disposable,” while racialized into “illegality” (4). Flores exp…
Visual slippage
I analyze Los Punks: We Are All We Have (2016) for three themes that characterize the (im)migrant family, the savage Latinx adolescent, and the colonial hero constructed in represented urban environments. The recorded space in the documentary denotes cultural authenticity while attempting to transform Latinx performances into assimilationist archetypes of Othered (im)migrant subjects. I argue that visual slippage in (im)migrant representation for…
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Deportable and Disposable
Lisa Flores's Deportable and Disposable discusses how public discourse reflects the constitution of Mexican identities, as they are racialized against U.S. nation-state xenophobia and economic needs. The book analyzes racialization in the early twentieth century, illustrating how Mexican migrants became “perpetually returnable,” “temporary, cheap labor,” understood as “deportable and disposable,” while racialized into “illegality” (4). Flores exp…
Visual slippage
I analyze Los Punks: We Are All We Have (2016) for three themes that characterize the (im)migrant family, the savage Latinx adolescent, and the colonial hero constructed in represented urban environments. The recorded space in the documentary denotes cultural authenticity while attempting to transform Latinx performances into assimilationist archetypes of Othered (im)migrant subjects. I argue that visual slippage in (im)migrant representation for…
Migrant rhetoric as refuge ness
Sociology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · History (2 works) · History (2 works) · Latin American and Latino Studies (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works)