The paper traces the genealogy of social and legal inequalities in citizenship and in the racialization of immigrants in the U.S. that are constitutive of contemporary immigrant detention practices. Presenting a challenge to the exceptionalism which frames policy responses to 9/11 and the “war on terror,” the paper argues that contemporary detention policies emerge from an episodic history of immigrant detention, precipitated by a series of broadly defined national security crises over the last century—from fear of contagion, to the demonization of “foreign” ideologies, to international military conflicts and domestic “wars” on crime, drugs and terrorism. These “crises” have been invoked to reduce the rights and civil liberties of racialized immigrants and citizens in the detention process. Even before the “war on terror” began, the coordinates of race, noncitizenship and national crisis were mobilized by the government through the vehicle of detention to deny due procedural rights to racialized immigrants. Such policies, often practiced legally and extralegally, serve to highlight the broad formation of a near permanent lesser class of persons vulnerable to institutionalized inequalities in the United States.
Abstract
Music in the Age of Communication and Control
David Roberto Hernandez
This dissertation is a study of DIY electronic music from the mid-20th century to the present, with a particular focus on analog system design. It weaves together prominent figures such as Louis and Bebe Barron, David Tudor, and Gordon Mumma as well as lesser-known figures in the recent analog system rebirth. This study is conducted from the perspective that musicians must grapple with the conditions of industrialization, and therefore gain mastery over the infrastructure of communication in the so-called “information age.” Chapter 1 investigates the transmission of knowledge and creativity within the world of DIY electronic music. Chapter 2 is a meditation on the cultural climate within which this transmission has occurred. We have developed techniques of treating organisms, electronics, and acoustical spaces as analogs for each other, rather than as elements of a strict hierarchy.
This dissertation tries to deal critically with the common utilization of media literacy as skilled-based initiative or participatory culture building. It raises a number of questions about the process of participation and production that have often been ignored by a media literacy research. Based on work I did directly with two communities of youth Latina/os in weekly media workshops that had real community impact, I examine the participatory dynamics surrounding three video productions that responded to stereotypes and the topics of community service and immigration in corporate news media representations of the Latina/o community and the U.S.-Mexico border.
I look first at youth media participation in the context of afterschool and summer camp programs, and second at news media representations of the Latina/o population and the U.S.-Mexico border (2000-2012) as central to the configuration of the media landscape in the region. My aim in this context is to understand media literacy as a form of critical media participation that emphasizes the processes of production, critical thinking, power dynamics, and decision-making over the development of specific types of skills typically thought to be the core of “participatory culture.”
Exploring participants’ responses to the case studies through a framework of Participatory Action Research, I suggest that such efforts can help media educators achieve the pedagogical goal of enabling participants not only to develop critical thinking and question media representations or existing arrangements of power, but also to produce videos that reflect a deep appreciation for learning about media and the communities they live in
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