3-0680 NEGOTIATING BELONGING AND EXCLUSION: THE ETHNO-RACIAL POLITICS OF MATERIALITY IN TRANSNATIONAL CONTEXTS

Thursday, November 17, 2011: 13:45-15:30

Abstract not available in preliminary program.

This session would be of particular interest to:
Practicing and Applied Anthropologists

Chair: Gilberto A Rosas (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

13:45

Being Mexican One Taco At a Time: Evaluating Mexican Identity Through Loncheras In Los Angeles

Juan Landeros (California State University, Los Angeles) and Toni A. Gonzalez (California State University, Los Angeles)

14:00

Corn’s Multiple National and Transnational Identities: Cultural Staple, International Commodity, Political Object, and Cosmological Source of Life

Erick Castellanos (Ramapo College)

14:15

In Search for Paradise: Japanese Immigrants Legal Fight for “whiteness” In the Dominican Republic

Yadira Perez Hazel ()

14:30

Objects/Things On Home Altars: Negotiating Mexicano Identity In San Antonio

Mary Durocher (Wayne State University)

14:45

The Race Defence: legacies of Past In Present Racist Discourse

Maria Teresa Milicia (University of Padova)

15:00

Discussion

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