媒介与社会性别8PassingLinesImmigrationandSexuality

Click to edit Master title style,Click to edit Master text styles,Second level,Third level,Fourth level,Fifth level,6/14/2016,#,Passing Lines:Immigration and SexualityProfessor Brad EppsHarvard University,媒介与社会性别精品课程专题演讲,Border Crossing Sign:Prohibido(Prohibited),“Boat People to United States,Anti-Immigration Cartoon,Anti-Immigration propaganda,Line,1)a long,narrow mark,band,boundary,or border(as in“borderline,which also means:“barely acceptable in quality or as belonging to a category),2)a horizontal row of written or printed words,3)the words of an actors part in a play or film(usually plural:lines),4)a false or exaggerated account or story:He feeds me a line about his past.,To pass,1)to change,from one state or condition to,another,2,)to cross;to leave,behind or on one,side(as with a border),3),to go,unnoticed;to,fit,in,4),to be,accepted,as,or taken,for,:His Chinese is so good that he,could pass for a native of,China;her color is so dark she could pass for Black.,The phrase“passing lines is a play on words that signals the quite serious play of people as they moveor attempt to moveacross geopolitical borders as well as the discursive and bodily acts by which one person“relates to another not as an other but as fundamentally the same or,perhaps more accurately,as“almost the same,but not quite.,Mimicry,1),the action or art of imitating,someone or something,typically in order to entertain or ridicule,but also in order simply to resemble,to hide,camouflage,or pass,2),the close external resemblance,of an animal or plant(or part of one)to another animal,plant,or inanimate,object(often in order to hunt or to escape being hunted),Parezco ilegal?Do I look illegal?,Green card,a,permit allowing a foreign national to live,and work,permanently in the,United States,Recent cover for Nella Larsons novel,Passing,Newspaper clipping of Dr.Albert C.Johnston,who passed for white,Lost Boundaries,1949 film starring Mel Ferrer,Race Passing:a study by Kathleen Pfeiffer of the ambiguities of racial identity in American culture,Poster for,Europa,Euro,pa(1990 German film directed by Agnieska Holland about a young Jew who passes as Aryan in Nazi Germany),Deborah becomes Jake:Snapshot from photo essay that chronicles a female-to-male transition and interprets transgender identities through narratives of racial passing,Profiling,1)The act of making a“profile,that is to say,of making an outline of something,especially a persons face,as seen from one side,2)In police and legal terms,a form of stereotypical identification,often used to detain and interrogate,as in:People wearing Muslim dress are often profiled in airports in the United States.,Immigrants Rights:We are human,Intersectionality,The complex coexistence and“crisscrossing of two or more signs of identity(from“intersection,a point or line common to surfaces that cross each other),Ningn ser humano es ilegal(No human being is illegal),Queer,queerness,1)strange,odd,different,bent,2)(informal,usually,offensive)homosexual,3),anyone who does not abide by,fit into,or accept the norms of heterosexuality or heteronormativity,(this can include heterosexual people who have multiple sexual partners,or who refuse marriage,or who refuse to have children,or who prefer to live alone,etc.,etc.),Miscegenation,The“intermixing of people considered to be of different racial types(first used in the mid-19th century:formed irregularly from Latin miscere to mix+genus race+-ation).In the United States miscegenation was once considered a criminal offense.,Chinese Immigrants in Detention Centers(19,th,Century),“Pacific Chivalry:1869 Cartoon that criticizes the“un-chivalrous or discourteous treatment of Chinese immigrants,March in support of Immigrants Rights,For a World without Imperialism and Restrictive Borders;for Humanity as Humanity,