Hector Amaya
Biographic Data
| ID | 906431 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hector Amaya |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hector |
| FAMILY NAME | Amaya |
| SIGNATURE | AMAYA H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southern California |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 39 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Violences, displacements, and responses: Exploring settler colonialism in North and Central America
White supremacy, settler angst, and Latine immigration to the US
Following the 2019 mass shooting in El Paso, Texas, this article examines the manifesto written by the perpetrator, Patrick Crusius. I use critical discourse analysis to reveal some of the racial contours of white nationalist protestation, which I connect to the erasure of indigeneity by settler colonialism. I also use a moral, economic framework to discuss Crusius and other white nationalists' deployment of affective structures to justify their …
On human and technological boundaries
In the Spring of 2023, a group of academics that included me and other colleagues in communication studies were having lunch at the University of Southern California.We were welcoming a Chinese colleague visiting from Germany and our group included a couple of anthropologists and a sociologist.The conversation veered toward complex cases of digital life and identity, a subject matter quite common in the discipline of communication studies.One of …
Book notes: Trafficking: Narcoculture in Mexico and the United States
English- and Spanish-Language Media
This chapter explores ethno-territoriality and erasure in relation to the linguistic marginalization of Spanish-language media (SLM) though media deregulation and technological convergence. It provides examples of political, legal, and media practices that resulted in the exclusion of Latino political goals, media, and political value. For instance, the removal of Spanish-language television as part of ethno nationalism marks the omission of Span…
Conclusion: The Ethics of Nation
This concluding chapter argues that the disjunctures brought about by immigration are not unique to the United States. They are common to most western European nations, as well as Canada, Australia, and Japan. Like the United States, nations with European ethno-racial identities (which include Canada and Australia) have given increased space to nativist political forces and have allowed legal expressions of xenophobia to taint the otherwise liber…
Mediating Belonging, Inclusion, and Death
This chapter critiques the act of giving posthumous citizenship to the deceased Latinas/os soldiers in the U.S. immigration law. Placing the mediation of these events against the backdrop of liberalism as well as the notions of consent and voluntarism, the chapter argues that giving posthumous citizenship to the soldiers was an illiberal practice, whereby the deceased people's personal biographies was being substituted for fantastic narratives of…
Trafficking: Narcoculture in Mexico and the United States
In Trafficking Hector Amaya examines how the dramatic escalation of drug violence in Mexico in 2008 prompted new forms of participation in public culture in Mexico and the United States. He contends that, by becoming a site of national and transnational debate about the role of the state, this violence altered the modes publicness could take, transforming assumptions about freedom of expression and the rules of public participation. Amaya examine…
Citizenship Excess: Latino/as, Media, and the Nation
My writing group at the University of Virginia must be singled out for providing me with their
Iced: Videogames in the Battle Between the Citizen and the Human
ICED, which stands for “I Can End Deportation,” is a videogame released in 2008 by the human rights organization Breakthrough. The game places the player in the social and legal environments faced by undocumented immigrants in contemporary New York. This article presents ICED as a type of popular solution to the challenge of using videogames for meaningful social criticism and analyzes its mode of production as the key source for this popular pot…
Owning a Voice: Broadcasting Policy, Spanish Language Media, and Latina/o Speech Rights
Using the sale of Univision in 2007 to a consortium of private equity firms as our case study, this article demonstrates how the regulation of Spanish-language broadcasting has codified exclusionary definitions of media diversity and naturalized English-language citizens as the primary members of the televisual public sphere in the United States. We situate the regulation of Spanish-language broadcasting within the troubled history of media diver…
Citizenship, diversity, law and Ugly Betty
The Role of Mexico's Plural in Latin American Literature and Political Culture: From Tlatelolco to the 'Philantropic Ogre' - by King, J
Racialized Documentary Reception of Ken Burns' Jazz
This essay investigates the critical reception of the documentary Jazz: The Story of America's Music , directed by Ken Burns and shown on PBS in 2001. Although studies on reception are now common regarding television, the reception of documentary is an underexplored area. Typically, documentary theory has placed an emphasis on truth and epistemology; only recently have there been inquiries on audiences. Expanding on the latter contributions, the …
Latino Immigrants in the American Discourses of Citizenship and Nationalism During the Iraqi War
Some of the first Marines to die in Iraq in 2003 were non-citizen Latinos who were given posthumous citizenship. I examine these unusual occurrences and use them to understand the location of Latino immigrants in American society. I argue that the ethnic and class character of the parties involved (Latinos, legislators, and journalists) put in motion parts of the national machinery that helped legislators and journalists monitor symbolic membersh…
Dying American or The Violence of Citizenship: Latinos in Iraq
Performing Acculturation: Rewriting the Latina/o Immigrant Self
This is an autoethnography that explores Latino immigration as a radical rewriting of the self and as a performance of acculturation. Given the significant changes to the social and cultural environment, the immigrant must engage in a reflexive process of transformation that can secure our integration and increase our changes of success. Fuelling this transformation is the realization that we are no longer subjects of ethical treatment and that i…
Introduction: Breast cancer and the perils of health literacy
Additional informationNotes on contributorsHector Amaya ** Corresponding author: Southwestern University, Department of Communication, PO Box 770, Georgetown, TX 78627‐0770, USA. Email: [email protected] * Corresponding author: Southwestern University, Department of Communication, PO Box 770, Georgetown, TX 78627‐0770, USA. Email: [email protected]
Photography as technology of the self: Matuschka's art and breast cancer
After undergoing a mastectomy in 1991, Matuschka began photographing her nude body, and in these images she often highlighted the scar on her torso. Other women have acted in a similar fashion and have produced representations of their bodies after mastectomies. In this article the role the activity of photography plays in the process of self‐formation of Matuschka is investigated. Borrowing from Michel Foucault's technologies of the self, photog…
Citizenship Excess: Latino/as, Media, and the Nation
My writing group at the University of Virginia must be singled out for providing me with their
Dying American or The Violence of Citizenship: Latinos in Iraq
Performing Acculturation: Rewriting the Latina/o Immigrant Self
This is an autoethnography that explores Latino immigration as a radical rewriting of the self and as a performance of acculturation. Given the significant changes to the social and cultural environment, the immigrant must engage in a reflexive process of transformation that can secure our integration and increase our changes of success. Fuelling this transformation is the realization that we are no longer subjects of ethical treatment and that i…
Owning a Voice: Broadcasting Policy, Spanish Language Media, and Latina/o Speech Rights
Using the sale of Univision in 2007 to a consortium of private equity firms as our case study, this article demonstrates how the regulation of Spanish-language broadcasting has codified exclusionary definitions of media diversity and naturalized English-language citizens as the primary members of the televisual public sphere in the United States. We situate the regulation of Spanish-language broadcasting within the troubled history of media diver…
Latino Immigrants in the American Discourses of Citizenship and Nationalism During the Iraqi War
Some of the first Marines to die in Iraq in 2003 were non-citizen Latinos who were given posthumous citizenship. I examine these unusual occurrences and use them to understand the location of Latino immigrants in American society. I argue that the ethnic and class character of the parties involved (Latinos, legislators, and journalists) put in motion parts of the national machinery that helped legislators and journalists monitor symbolic membersh…
Photography as technology of the self: Matuschka's art and breast cancer
After undergoing a mastectomy in 1991, Matuschka began photographing her nude body, and in these images she often highlighted the scar on her torso. Other women have acted in a similar fashion and have produced representations of their bodies after mastectomies. In this article the role the activity of photography plays in the process of self‐formation of Matuschka is investigated. Borrowing from Michel Foucault's technologies of the self, photog…
White supremacy, settler angst, and Latine immigration to the US
Following the 2019 mass shooting in El Paso, Texas, this article examines the manifesto written by the perpetrator, Patrick Crusius. I use critical discourse analysis to reveal some of the racial contours of white nationalist protestation, which I connect to the erasure of indigeneity by settler colonialism. I also use a moral, economic framework to discuss Crusius and other white nationalists' deployment of affective structures to justify their …
Iced: Videogames in the Battle Between the Citizen and the Human
ICED, which stands for “I Can End Deportation,” is a videogame released in 2008 by the human rights organization Breakthrough. The game places the player in the social and legal environments faced by undocumented immigrants in contemporary New York. This article presents ICED as a type of popular solution to the challenge of using videogames for meaningful social criticism and analyzes its mode of production as the key source for this popular pot…
Introduction: Breast cancer and the perils of health literacy
Additional informationNotes on contributorsHector Amaya ** Corresponding author: Southwestern University, Department of Communication, PO Box 770, Georgetown, TX 78627‐0770, USA. Email: [email protected] * Corresponding author: Southwestern University, Department of Communication, PO Box 770, Georgetown, TX 78627‐0770, USA. Email: [email protected]
Photography as technology of the self: Matuschka's art and breast cancer
After undergoing a mastectomy in 1991, Matuschka began photographing her nude body, and in these images she often highlighted the scar on her torso. Other women have acted in a similar fashion and have produced representations of their bodies after mastectomies. In this article the role the activity of photography plays in the process of self‐formation of Matuschka is investigated. Borrowing from Michel Foucault's technologies of the self, photog…
Latino Immigrants in the American Discourses of Citizenship and Nationalism During the Iraqi War
Some of the first Marines to die in Iraq in 2003 were non-citizen Latinos who were given posthumous citizenship. I examine these unusual occurrences and use them to understand the location of Latino immigrants in American society. I argue that the ethnic and class character of the parties involved (Latinos, legislators, and journalists) put in motion parts of the national machinery that helped legislators and journalists monitor symbolic membersh…
Dying American or The Violence of Citizenship: Latinos in Iraq
Performing Acculturation: Rewriting the Latina/o Immigrant Self
This is an autoethnography that explores Latino immigration as a radical rewriting of the self and as a performance of acculturation. Given the significant changes to the social and cultural environment, the immigrant must engage in a reflexive process of transformation that can secure our integration and increase our changes of success. Fuelling this transformation is the realization that we are no longer subjects of ethical treatment and that i…
Racialized Documentary Reception of Ken Burns' Jazz
This essay investigates the critical reception of the documentary Jazz: The Story of America's Music , directed by Ken Burns and shown on PBS in 2001. Although studies on reception are now common regarding television, the reception of documentary is an underexplored area. Typically, documentary theory has placed an emphasis on truth and epistemology; only recently have there been inquiries on audiences. Expanding on the latter contributions, the …
Citizenship, diversity, law and Ugly Betty
The Role of Mexico's Plural in Latin American Literature and Political Culture: From Tlatelolco to the 'Philantropic Ogre' - by King, J
Owning a Voice: Broadcasting Policy, Spanish Language Media, and Latina/o Speech Rights
Using the sale of Univision in 2007 to a consortium of private equity firms as our case study, this article demonstrates how the regulation of Spanish-language broadcasting has codified exclusionary definitions of media diversity and naturalized English-language citizens as the primary members of the televisual public sphere in the United States. We situate the regulation of Spanish-language broadcasting within the troubled history of media diver…
Iced: Videogames in the Battle Between the Citizen and the Human
ICED, which stands for “I Can End Deportation,” is a videogame released in 2008 by the human rights organization Breakthrough. The game places the player in the social and legal environments faced by undocumented immigrants in contemporary New York. This article presents ICED as a type of popular solution to the challenge of using videogames for meaningful social criticism and analyzes its mode of production as the key source for this popular pot…
Citizenship Excess: Latino/as, Media, and the Nation
My writing group at the University of Virginia must be singled out for providing me with their
English- and Spanish-Language Media
This chapter explores ethno-territoriality and erasure in relation to the linguistic marginalization of Spanish-language media (SLM) though media deregulation and technological convergence. It provides examples of political, legal, and media practices that resulted in the exclusion of Latino political goals, media, and political value. For instance, the removal of Spanish-language television as part of ethno nationalism marks the omission of Span…
Conclusion: The Ethics of Nation
This concluding chapter argues that the disjunctures brought about by immigration are not unique to the United States. They are common to most western European nations, as well as Canada, Australia, and Japan. Like the United States, nations with European ethno-racial identities (which include Canada and Australia) have given increased space to nativist political forces and have allowed legal expressions of xenophobia to taint the otherwise liber…
Mediating Belonging, Inclusion, and Death
This chapter critiques the act of giving posthumous citizenship to the deceased Latinas/os soldiers in the U.S. immigration law. Placing the mediation of these events against the backdrop of liberalism as well as the notions of consent and voluntarism, the chapter argues that giving posthumous citizenship to the soldiers was an illiberal practice, whereby the deceased people's personal biographies was being substituted for fantastic narratives of…
Trafficking: Narcoculture in Mexico and the United States
In Trafficking Hector Amaya examines how the dramatic escalation of drug violence in Mexico in 2008 prompted new forms of participation in public culture in Mexico and the United States. He contends that, by becoming a site of national and transnational debate about the role of the state, this violence altered the modes publicness could take, transforming assumptions about freedom of expression and the rules of public participation. Amaya examine…
Book notes: Trafficking: Narcoculture in Mexico and the United States
On human and technological boundaries
In the Spring of 2023, a group of academics that included me and other colleagues in communication studies were having lunch at the University of Southern California.We were welcoming a Chinese colleague visiting from Germany and our group included a couple of anthropologists and a sociologist.The conversation veered toward complex cases of digital life and identity, a subject matter quite common in the discipline of communication studies.One of …
Violences, displacements, and responses: Exploring settler colonialism in North and Central America
White supremacy, settler angst, and Latine immigration to the US
Following the 2019 mass shooting in El Paso, Texas, this article examines the manifesto written by the perpetrator, Patrick Crusius. I use critical discourse analysis to reveal some of the racial contours of white nationalist protestation, which I connect to the erasure of indigeneity by settler colonialism. I also use a moral, economic framework to discuss Crusius and other white nationalists' deployment of affective structures to justify their …
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