Margarita Aragon
Biographic Data
| ID | 81514 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Margarita Aragon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Margarita |
| FAMILY NAME | Aragon |
| SIGNATURE | ARAGON M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
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…
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…
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…
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
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…
Political science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Law (5 works) · History (4 works) · Race, History, and American Society (4 works) · Ethnology (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Psychology (3 works)