'Acting White'

‘Acting White’

In Racial “Triangulation” Revisited, Alexander elucidates the implications of racialization and the rigid role Latino workers have filled in the service industry. She explains the…

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Global Migration Film Festival -- Critique

Global Migration Film Festival — Critique

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) or UN Migration Agency held a Global Migration Film Festival in December 2016 and will be holding one in…

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American-ness

American-ness

The layers of privilege and racialization in the service industry through “front of the house” and “back of the house” positions illustrate how the privileged…

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A House Divided

A House Divided

In The Positionality of the Latino– America’s Migrant Worker, Dr. Isabella Alexander dissects the various components that go into classifying how positively or negatively certain…

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The Kitchen and the State

The Kitchen and the State

“The managers, they don’t have all those boxes to check [in reference to my survey]. They see race simple. American and not.” – Shirong (32,…

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How much is a human life worth?

How much is a human life worth?

Francesco Vacchiano’s article “On Frequent Flyers and Boat People: Notes on Europe, Crisis, and Human Mobility” raised many interesting points and critiques on the European…

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"If you're not American, then you're Mexican"-Shirong

“If you’re not American, then you’re Mexican”-Shirong

As a member of the Latinx community, I had so many different thoughts on the various points Dr. Alexander highlighted in her publication. There is…

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Invisible Refugees

Invisible Refugees

The article “On Frequent Flyers and Boat People: Notes on Europe, Crisis, and Human Mobility” draws attention to the growing divide between displaced peoples and…

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Front vs Back of House Work and "Whiteness"

Front vs Back of House Work and “Whiteness”

An interesting common thread between the two articles was “this idea of labor without citizenship, as well as an uncanny recurrence of imperial formations that…

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