Myra Mendible
Biographic Data
| ID | 94611 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Myra Mendible |
| GIVEN NAMES | Myra |
| FAMILY NAME | Mendible |
| SIGNATURE | MENDIBLE M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Florida Gulf Coast University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Cultural Disenfranchisement and the Politics of Stigma
This article focuses attention on the pivotal role that stigmatization processes play on both legal and discursive fronts, that is, in justifying restrictive policies affecting ethnic minorities and in framing reactionary discourses in support of such measures. It argues that racial stigmatization is the key component in ongoing efforts to exclude Black and Latino citizens from full cultural citizenship in the United States, setting the groundwor…
Introduction
This Special Issue of Humanities comes at a time when the viability of the humanities are challenged on numerous fronts. [...]
American Shame
On any given day in America’s news cycle, stories and images of disgraced politicians and celebrities solicit our moral indignation, their misdeeds fueling a lucrative economy of shame and scandal. Shame is one of the most coercive, painful, and intriguing of human emotions. Only in recent years has interest in shame extended beyond a focus on the subjective experience of this emotion and its psychological effects. The essays collected here consi…
American shame
Literature as activism
This article provides a brief overview of Philippine writer Ninotchka Rosca's literary career, tracing her commitment to political advocacy and suggesting the ways that this commitment shapes her creative choices. It focuses special attention on State of War, Rosca's debut novel, as it best dramatizes a productive interplay between literary and political devices
Scarlet-Letter Politics
This essay considers the politics of racial shaming as deployed against Barack Obama, arguing that it targeted "black" and "foreign" bodies as threats to the "American" body politic
Imagining Cuba
This chapter aims to describe a course through the treacherous waters, to make sense of the passionate polarities that have divided Cubans on the island from Cubans in Miami for decades. It explores the formative role that storytelling plays, hoping to reclaim at least one voice in a chorus of voices silenced by the very people who presume to speak for and all Cuban exiles. Cubans from Cubans on the island on such issues as the US embargo, the ch…
From Bananas to Buttocks
Introduction: Embodying Latinidad: An Overview (Myra Mendible) * Section One. Case Studies: Silent and Classic Film Era *1. Film Viewing in Latino Communities, 1896-1934: Puerto Rico as Microcosm (Clara E. Rodriguez) *2. Lupe Velez: Queen of the B's (Rosa Linda Fregoso) *3. Lupe Velez Regurgitated: Cautionary, Indigestion-Causing Ruminations on Mexicans in American Toilets Perpetrated While Covetously Screening Veronica (William A. Nericcio) * Se…
Dominance and Submission in Postmodern War Imagery
High Theory/Low Culture
Literature as activism
This article provides a brief overview of Philippine writer Ninotchka Rosca's literary career, tracing her commitment to political advocacy and suggesting the ways that this commitment shapes her creative choices. It focuses special attention on State of War, Rosca's debut novel, as it best dramatizes a productive interplay between literary and political devices
High Theory/Low Culture
Dominance and Submission in Postmodern War Imagery
From Bananas to Buttocks
Introduction: Embodying Latinidad: An Overview (Myra Mendible) * Section One. Case Studies: Silent and Classic Film Era *1. Film Viewing in Latino Communities, 1896-1934: Puerto Rico as Microcosm (Clara E. Rodriguez) *2. Lupe Velez: Queen of the B's (Rosa Linda Fregoso) *3. Lupe Velez Regurgitated: Cautionary, Indigestion-Causing Ruminations on Mexicans in American Toilets Perpetrated While Covetously Screening Veronica (William A. Nericcio) * Se…
Imagining Cuba
This chapter aims to describe a course through the treacherous waters, to make sense of the passionate polarities that have divided Cubans on the island from Cubans in Miami for decades. It explores the formative role that storytelling plays, hoping to reclaim at least one voice in a chorus of voices silenced by the very people who presume to speak for and all Cuban exiles. Cubans from Cubans on the island on such issues as the US embargo, the ch…
Scarlet-Letter Politics
This essay considers the politics of racial shaming as deployed against Barack Obama, arguing that it targeted "black" and "foreign" bodies as threats to the "American" body politic
Literature as activism
This article provides a brief overview of Philippine writer Ninotchka Rosca's literary career, tracing her commitment to political advocacy and suggesting the ways that this commitment shapes her creative choices. It focuses special attention on State of War, Rosca's debut novel, as it best dramatizes a productive interplay between literary and political devices
American Shame
On any given day in America’s news cycle, stories and images of disgraced politicians and celebrities solicit our moral indignation, their misdeeds fueling a lucrative economy of shame and scandal. Shame is one of the most coercive, painful, and intriguing of human emotions. Only in recent years has interest in shame extended beyond a focus on the subjective experience of this emotion and its psychological effects. The essays collected here consi…
American shame
Introduction
This Special Issue of Humanities comes at a time when the viability of the humanities are challenged on numerous fronts. [...]
Cultural Disenfranchisement and the Politics of Stigma
This article focuses attention on the pivotal role that stigmatization processes play on both legal and discursive fronts, that is, in justifying restrictive policies affecting ethnic minorities and in framing reactionary discourses in support of such measures. It argues that racial stigmatization is the key component in ongoing efforts to exclude Black and Latino citizens from full cultural citizenship in the United States, setting the groundwor…
Political science (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Politics (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · History (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Literature (3 works)