Claudia Sadowski-Smith
Biographic Data
| ID | 810933 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Claudia Sadowski-Smith |
| GIVEN NAMES | Claudia |
| FAMILY NAME | Sadowski-Smith |
| SIGNATURE | SADOWSKI-SMITH C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Arizona State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Narratives of post-Soviet migration, neo-liberal precarity, and US migration literature
Introduction
The introduction to this special issue outlines comparative approaches to cultural representations of post/socialism in order to move beyond the term’s association with the Soviet Union, the unevenly aligned or nonaligned nations in Central/Eastern Europe (CEE), and the period between 1917 and 1990. The histories and afterlives of state socialisms, and socialist globalization in Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas, are at the center of ongoing…
The Rise of the Nostalgic Spy Thriller
This article examines the portrayal of German Democratic Republic (GDR) socialism in the TV series Deutschland, the first foreign-language show to premiere on a U.S. network. Paving the way for the globalization of Germany’s TV industry, the series exemplifies the rise of the nostalgic spy thriller. It employs the aesthetic and ideological codes of a genre rooted in the 1960s to evoke the time period and ideological certainties of the Cold War fr…
Conclusion
The New Immigrant Whiteness
The New Immigrant Whiteness examines representations of post-1980s migration from the former USSR to the United States as responses to the global extension of neoliberalism and as contributions to studies of immigration and whiteness. The book analyzes representations of the new diaspora in reality TV shows, parental memoirs of transnational adoption, fiction about irregular migration, and interviews with highly skilled and marriage immigrants. A…
Enemies of All Humankind
Book Review| March 01 2020 Enemies of All Humankind: Fictions of Legitimate ViolenceGendered Asylum: Race and Violence in U.S. Law and Politics Enemies of All Humankind: Fictions of Legitimate Violence. By Schillings, Sonja. Lebanon, NH: Dartmouth College Press. 2017. xi, 287 pp. Cloth, $95.00; paper, $40.00; e-book, $7.99.Gendered Asylum: Race and Violence in U.S. Law and Politics. By McKinnon, Sara L. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press. 2016. vii,…
Human Rights and Cultural Representations of Mexico-US Border Migration
Migration to the United States has long been understood as a concern of US national policy rather than as a human rights issue. After all, membership in the US nation is conferred by the US state; it is granted to children whose parents are citizens ( jus sanguinis ) or who were born on the territory of the United States ( jus soli ). The tightening of US immigration and refugee law in the last few decades has transformed a large portion of arriv…
Global migration meets TV format adaptation
This article examines representations of the post-Soviet diaspora on US Dancing with the Stars and Ukraine’s version of the US Bachelor to show how their use of diasporic performers conflicts with narratives of national cohesion that are essential to the adaptation of reality TV formats to new markets. The first season of Холостяк starred an emigrant from Odessa who is also a regular on the US version of the British franchise Dancing with the Sta…
Misplaced objects
Introduction
This special issue moves border studies in the humanities beyond their focus on the Mexico-US boundary as a privileged site for the emergence of transnational models of study. Articles on the Americas, Asia, and Europe draw attention to the transnational nature of national borders, explore border zones created by historical and contemporary expressions of US empire, and develop comparative models that focus on more than one national border or bor…
Inhuman Conditions
Book Review| January 01 2009 Inhuman Conditions: On Human Cosmopolitanism and Human Rights Inhuman Conditions: On Human Cosmopolitanism and Human Rights Pheng Cheah Claudia Sadowski-Smith Claudia Sadowski-Smith Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Literature Studies (2009) 46 (1): 203–205. https://doi.org/10.2307/25659709 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Claudia Sadowski-Sm…
Unskilled Labor Migration and the Illegality Spiral
This article explores the historical production of immigrant illegality in the United States as a set of interrelated yet distinct racial projects. The passage of nineteenth and twentieth century immigration legislation, which instituted requirements for immigrant identification, transformed unskilled labor movements from China and Europe into unauthorized or improperly documented immigration. This illegality was differently racialized. Excluded …
Race Mixture in Nineteenth-Century U.S. and Spanish American Fictions
Book Review| September 01 2006 Race Mixture in Nineteenth-Century U.S. and Spanish American Fictions: Gender, Culture, and Nation Building; Transamerican Literary Relations and the Nineteenth-Century Public Sphere; Hemispheric Imaginings: The Monroe Doctrine and Narratives of U.S. Empire Claudia Sadowski-Smith Claudia Sadowski-Smith Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2006) 78 (3): 624–627. https://doi.…
Twenty-First-Century Chicana/o Border Writing
Research Article| October 01 2006 Twenty-First-Century Chicana/o Border Writing Claudia Sadowski-Smith Claudia Sadowski-Smith Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (2006) 105 (4): 717–743. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-2006-009 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Claudia Sadowski-Smith; Twenty-First-Century Chicana/o Border Writing. Sout…
Canada-US border narratives and US hemispheric studies
This article analyzes recent English-language narratives about the Canada–US border, which help to move US inter-American considerations beyond their current emphasis on the Latin American–US relationship and which also help redirect Canadian studies from its internally oriented focus toward a larger, hemispheric perspective. In this fiction, the Canada–US frontier symbolizes Canada's internal diversity, its declining economic, political, and cul…
Theorizing the hemisphere Inter-Americas work at the intersection of American, Canadian, and Latin American studies
This article advocates an 'inter-Americas studies' perspective that bridges the institutionalized fields of American, Canadian, and Latin American studies, which have traditionally provided separate means for studying the hemisphere. Since they encompass comparative orientations, Canadian and Latin American studies in particular have the potential to move existing work on the hemisphere beyond the currently dominant post-national assumptions of A…
Andrea O’Reilly Herrera, The Pearl of the Antilles
The Pearl of the Antilles tells the story of five generations of Cuban women in a narrative that moves from prerevolutionary Cuba (part one) to the 1980s United States (part two). Alluding to its allegorical treatment of Cuban history, the novel’s title refers both to the island itself and to a term of endearment for one of its main characters, Rosa, who is married to a domineering and unfaithful husband. In interwoven narratives, anecdotes, and …
Globalization on the Line
The essays in Globalization on the Line criticize the almost exclusive emphasis on the ethnically constituted trans-nation, whose function as an instrument of de-nationalization has become signified i
The Fence and the River
Book Review| March 01 2002 The Fence and the River: Culture and Politics at the U.S.-Mexico Border By Claire F. Fox. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 1999. x, 188 pp. Cloth, $47.95; paper, $18.95. Claudia Sadowski-Smith Claudia Sadowski-Smith Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2002) 74 (1): 185–187. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-74-1-185 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedI…
Post-Coup Politics in the Gambia
Four years ago in these pages, following the disputed 1996 presidential election in the Gambia, the late John Wiseman characterized the "democratization process" in that small West African country as a "moldy loaf." 1 Soldier-turned-civilian president Colonel Yahya Jammeh, who had taken power in a bloodless 1994 coup, engineered the 1996 election to ensure himself victory. Jammeh's decision to stand again for the presidency in 2001, the kind of c…
Contesting Globalisms
US Border Theory, Globalization, and Ethnonationalisms in Post-Wall Eastern Europe
Diaspora 8:1 1999 US Border Theory, Globalization, and Ethnonationalisms in Post-Wall Eastern Europe1 Claudia Sadowski-Smith Michigan State University In April 1999, the simultaneous involvement ofthe United States in three apparently unrelated events illustrated important shifts in geopolitical realities. A decade after the fall of the Berlin Wall, which prefigured dramatic geopolitical changes in the countries of the former "Evil Empire," a US-…
Post-Coup Politics in the Gambia
Four years ago in these pages, following the disputed 1996 presidential election in the Gambia, the late John Wiseman characterized the "democratization process" in that small West African country as a "moldy loaf." 1 Soldier-turned-civilian president Colonel Yahya Jammeh, who had taken power in a bloodless 1994 coup, engineered the 1996 election to ensure himself victory. Jammeh's decision to stand again for the presidency in 2001, the kind of c…
Unskilled Labor Migration and the Illegality Spiral
This article explores the historical production of immigrant illegality in the United States as a set of interrelated yet distinct racial projects. The passage of nineteenth and twentieth century immigration legislation, which instituted requirements for immigrant identification, transformed unskilled labor movements from China and Europe into unauthorized or improperly documented immigration. This illegality was differently racialized. Excluded …
Theorizing the hemisphere Inter-Americas work at the intersection of American, Canadian, and Latin American studies
This article advocates an 'inter-Americas studies' perspective that bridges the institutionalized fields of American, Canadian, and Latin American studies, which have traditionally provided separate means for studying the hemisphere. Since they encompass comparative orientations, Canadian and Latin American studies in particular have the potential to move existing work on the hemisphere beyond the currently dominant post-national assumptions of A…
Introduction
This special issue moves border studies in the humanities beyond their focus on the Mexico-US boundary as a privileged site for the emergence of transnational models of study. Articles on the Americas, Asia, and Europe draw attention to the transnational nature of national borders, explore border zones created by historical and contemporary expressions of US empire, and develop comparative models that focus on more than one national border or bor…
Introduction
The introduction to this special issue outlines comparative approaches to cultural representations of post/socialism in order to move beyond the term’s association with the Soviet Union, the unevenly aligned or nonaligned nations in Central/Eastern Europe (CEE), and the period between 1917 and 1990. The histories and afterlives of state socialisms, and socialist globalization in Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas, are at the center of ongoing…
Global migration meets TV format adaptation
This article examines representations of the post-Soviet diaspora on US Dancing with the Stars and Ukraine’s version of the US Bachelor to show how their use of diasporic performers conflicts with narratives of national cohesion that are essential to the adaptation of reality TV formats to new markets. The first season of Холостяк starred an emigrant from Odessa who is also a regular on the US version of the British franchise Dancing with the Sta…
Contesting Globalisms
US Border Theory, Globalization, and Ethnonationalisms in Post-Wall Eastern Europe
Diaspora 8:1 1999 US Border Theory, Globalization, and Ethnonationalisms in Post-Wall Eastern Europe1 Claudia Sadowski-Smith Michigan State University In April 1999, the simultaneous involvement ofthe United States in three apparently unrelated events illustrated important shifts in geopolitical realities. A decade after the fall of the Berlin Wall, which prefigured dramatic geopolitical changes in the countries of the former "Evil Empire," a US-…
Globalization on the Line
The essays in Globalization on the Line criticize the almost exclusive emphasis on the ethnically constituted trans-nation, whose function as an instrument of de-nationalization has become signified i
The Fence and the River
Book Review| March 01 2002 The Fence and the River: Culture and Politics at the U.S.-Mexico Border By Claire F. Fox. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 1999. x, 188 pp. Cloth, $47.95; paper, $18.95. Claudia Sadowski-Smith Claudia Sadowski-Smith Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2002) 74 (1): 185–187. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-74-1-185 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedI…
Post-Coup Politics in the Gambia
Four years ago in these pages, following the disputed 1996 presidential election in the Gambia, the late John Wiseman characterized the "democratization process" in that small West African country as a "moldy loaf." 1 Soldier-turned-civilian president Colonel Yahya Jammeh, who had taken power in a bloodless 1994 coup, engineered the 1996 election to ensure himself victory. Jammeh's decision to stand again for the presidency in 2001, the kind of c…
Andrea O’Reilly Herrera, The Pearl of the Antilles
The Pearl of the Antilles tells the story of five generations of Cuban women in a narrative that moves from prerevolutionary Cuba (part one) to the 1980s United States (part two). Alluding to its allegorical treatment of Cuban history, the novel’s title refers both to the island itself and to a term of endearment for one of its main characters, Rosa, who is married to a domineering and unfaithful husband. In interwoven narratives, anecdotes, and …
Theorizing the hemisphere Inter-Americas work at the intersection of American, Canadian, and Latin American studies
This article advocates an 'inter-Americas studies' perspective that bridges the institutionalized fields of American, Canadian, and Latin American studies, which have traditionally provided separate means for studying the hemisphere. Since they encompass comparative orientations, Canadian and Latin American studies in particular have the potential to move existing work on the hemisphere beyond the currently dominant post-national assumptions of A…
Canada-US border narratives and US hemispheric studies
This article analyzes recent English-language narratives about the Canada–US border, which help to move US inter-American considerations beyond their current emphasis on the Latin American–US relationship and which also help redirect Canadian studies from its internally oriented focus toward a larger, hemispheric perspective. In this fiction, the Canada–US frontier symbolizes Canada's internal diversity, its declining economic, political, and cul…
Race Mixture in Nineteenth-Century U.S. and Spanish American Fictions
Book Review| September 01 2006 Race Mixture in Nineteenth-Century U.S. and Spanish American Fictions: Gender, Culture, and Nation Building; Transamerican Literary Relations and the Nineteenth-Century Public Sphere; Hemispheric Imaginings: The Monroe Doctrine and Narratives of U.S. Empire Claudia Sadowski-Smith Claudia Sadowski-Smith Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2006) 78 (3): 624–627. https://doi.…
Twenty-First-Century Chicana/o Border Writing
Research Article| October 01 2006 Twenty-First-Century Chicana/o Border Writing Claudia Sadowski-Smith Claudia Sadowski-Smith Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (2006) 105 (4): 717–743. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-2006-009 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Claudia Sadowski-Smith; Twenty-First-Century Chicana/o Border Writing. Sout…
Unskilled Labor Migration and the Illegality Spiral
This article explores the historical production of immigrant illegality in the United States as a set of interrelated yet distinct racial projects. The passage of nineteenth and twentieth century immigration legislation, which instituted requirements for immigrant identification, transformed unskilled labor movements from China and Europe into unauthorized or improperly documented immigration. This illegality was differently racialized. Excluded …
Inhuman Conditions
Book Review| January 01 2009 Inhuman Conditions: On Human Cosmopolitanism and Human Rights Inhuman Conditions: On Human Cosmopolitanism and Human Rights Pheng Cheah Claudia Sadowski-Smith Claudia Sadowski-Smith Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Literature Studies (2009) 46 (1): 203–205. https://doi.org/10.2307/25659709 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Claudia Sadowski-Sm…
Introduction
This special issue moves border studies in the humanities beyond their focus on the Mexico-US boundary as a privileged site for the emergence of transnational models of study. Articles on the Americas, Asia, and Europe draw attention to the transnational nature of national borders, explore border zones created by historical and contemporary expressions of US empire, and develop comparative models that focus on more than one national border or bor…
Misplaced objects
Global migration meets TV format adaptation
This article examines representations of the post-Soviet diaspora on US Dancing with the Stars and Ukraine’s version of the US Bachelor to show how their use of diasporic performers conflicts with narratives of national cohesion that are essential to the adaptation of reality TV formats to new markets. The first season of Холостяк starred an emigrant from Odessa who is also a regular on the US version of the British franchise Dancing with the Sta…
Human Rights and Cultural Representations of Mexico-US Border Migration
Migration to the United States has long been understood as a concern of US national policy rather than as a human rights issue. After all, membership in the US nation is conferred by the US state; it is granted to children whose parents are citizens ( jus sanguinis ) or who were born on the territory of the United States ( jus soli ). The tightening of US immigration and refugee law in the last few decades has transformed a large portion of arriv…
Conclusion
The New Immigrant Whiteness
The New Immigrant Whiteness examines representations of post-1980s migration from the former USSR to the United States as responses to the global extension of neoliberalism and as contributions to studies of immigration and whiteness. The book analyzes representations of the new diaspora in reality TV shows, parental memoirs of transnational adoption, fiction about irregular migration, and interviews with highly skilled and marriage immigrants. A…
Enemies of All Humankind
Book Review| March 01 2020 Enemies of All Humankind: Fictions of Legitimate ViolenceGendered Asylum: Race and Violence in U.S. Law and Politics Enemies of All Humankind: Fictions of Legitimate Violence. By Schillings, Sonja. Lebanon, NH: Dartmouth College Press. 2017. xi, 287 pp. Cloth, $95.00; paper, $40.00; e-book, $7.99.Gendered Asylum: Race and Violence in U.S. Law and Politics. By McKinnon, Sara L. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press. 2016. vii,…
Introduction
The introduction to this special issue outlines comparative approaches to cultural representations of post/socialism in order to move beyond the term’s association with the Soviet Union, the unevenly aligned or nonaligned nations in Central/Eastern Europe (CEE), and the period between 1917 and 1990. The histories and afterlives of state socialisms, and socialist globalization in Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas, are at the center of ongoing…
The Rise of the Nostalgic Spy Thriller
This article examines the portrayal of German Democratic Republic (GDR) socialism in the TV series Deutschland, the first foreign-language show to premiere on a U.S. network. Paving the way for the globalization of Germany’s TV industry, the series exemplifies the rise of the nostalgic spy thriller. It employs the aesthetic and ideological codes of a genre rooted in the 1960s to evoke the time period and ideological certainties of the Cold War fr…
Narratives of post-Soviet migration, neo-liberal precarity, and US migration literature
Political science (19 works) · Law (16 works) · Sociology (12 works) · History (10 works) · Politics (10 works) · Law (7 works) · Geography (6 works) · Latin American and Latino Studies (6 works) · Narrative (6 works) · Political economy (6 works)