The militarization of the U.S.-Mexico border, criminalization of immigrants and migrants, and hum... more The militarization of the U.S.-Mexico border, criminalization of immigrants and migrants, and humanitarian emergency surrounding the border has negatively impacted students and schools. Responding to the impact of U.S. border politics on education, we taught a week-long institute for local teachers to learn about the histories and lived experiences connecting the Central American, Mexican, and U.S. borders. During the institute we asked participants-who were predominantly white K-12 teachers-to reflect on their learning experiences in personal journals. The aim of this study was to investigate the racial politics of emotion when confronting border issues in a classroom setting. Taking an interdisciplinary approach to our analysis, we conducted qualitative content analysis and close readings of twentyone teacher's journals to determine patterns in the emotional response's teachers had to the histories, testimonies, audio, and visual accounts to which they were exposed through readings and seminars. The results of our analysis reveal that emotions were used by participants to maintain racial boundaries and reinforce race-based notions of national belonging, but also to challenge injustice both in and beyond classroom settings. The findings have significant implications about the impact that ethnic studies programs and critical race theory curriculum may have on teacher education.
As part of the reflexive approach on the diversity of research practices in the field of American... more As part of the reflexive approach on the diversity of research practices in the field of American Studies, the organizers of the 2016 AFEA conference, “America in the Works,” invited Michael Denning not only to give a keynote speech entitled “Decolonizing the Ear: The Transcolonial Reverberations of Vernacular Phonograph Music,” but to present, along with nine current graduate students, the research and methodology of the Working Group on Globalization and Culture, which he coordinates at Yale University.
This article explores the ecological and social processes by which some species become invasive a... more This article explores the ecological and social processes by which some species become invasive and the prominent environmental and commercial role they play as such. The deliberate introduction of non-native species to novel environments is as old as the history of human migration but in recent years their accelerated movement globally made strikingly visible the impact of these nonhuman occupations of the natural world. Methods for dealing with the problem of invasive species highlight the intercon-nections among degraded ecologies, the social transformation of local environments, and processes of globalization. The example of the Asian carp demonstrates how the natural world intrudes on human infrastructure and landscapes, exceeding the uses to which humans endeavor to put it, occupying and altering the organic and built environment alike.
The militarization of the U.S.-Mexico border, criminalization of immigrants and migrants, and hum... more The militarization of the U.S.-Mexico border, criminalization of immigrants and migrants, and humanitarian emergency surrounding the border has negatively impacted students and schools. Responding to the impact of U.S. border politics on education, we taught a week-long institute for local teachers to learn about the histories and lived experiences connecting the Central American, Mexican, and U.S. borders. During the institute we asked participants-who were predominantly white K-12 teachers-to reflect on their learning experiences in personal journals. The aim of this study was to investigate the racial politics of emotion when confronting border issues in a classroom setting. Taking an interdisciplinary approach to our analysis, we conducted qualitative content analysis and close readings of twentyone teacher's journals to determine patterns in the emotional response's teachers had to the histories, testimonies, audio, and visual accounts to which they were exposed through readings and seminars. The results of our analysis reveal that emotions were used by participants to maintain racial boundaries and reinforce race-based notions of national belonging, but also to challenge injustice both in and beyond classroom settings. The findings have significant implications about the impact that ethnic studies programs and critical race theory curriculum may have on teacher education.
As part of the reflexive approach on the diversity of research practices in the field of American... more As part of the reflexive approach on the diversity of research practices in the field of American Studies, the organizers of the 2016 AFEA conference, “America in the Works,” invited Michael Denning not only to give a keynote speech entitled “Decolonizing the Ear: The Transcolonial Reverberations of Vernacular Phonograph Music,” but to present, along with nine current graduate students, the research and methodology of the Working Group on Globalization and Culture, which he coordinates at Yale University.
This article explores the ecological and social processes by which some species become invasive a... more This article explores the ecological and social processes by which some species become invasive and the prominent environmental and commercial role they play as such. The deliberate introduction of non-native species to novel environments is as old as the history of human migration but in recent years their accelerated movement globally made strikingly visible the impact of these nonhuman occupations of the natural world. Methods for dealing with the problem of invasive species highlight the intercon-nections among degraded ecologies, the social transformation of local environments, and processes of globalization. The example of the Asian carp demonstrates how the natural world intrudes on human infrastructure and landscapes, exceeding the uses to which humans endeavor to put it, occupying and altering the organic and built environment alike.
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