Crossing the U.S.-Mexico Border: Looking at Migrants through the Lens of Race, Class, and Gender
BOOK:
"The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail" by Jason de León (2015)
BACKGROUND IMAGE: Backpacks left by migrants crossing the Sonoran Desert in Arizona feature in exhibition called “State of Exception/Estado de Excepción” at Parsons School of Design.
Megan Lagapa
UC Davis 2020
Summer Session II
ANT 139AN
EXHIBIT: "Border" at
Oakland Museum, California
-Nov 2019-
ACADEMIC ARTICLE:
"'We Didn't Cross the Border, the Border Crossed Us': Artists' Images of the US-Mexico Border and Immigration" (2020)
CHAPTER:
"Class Consciousness in a Complicated Setting: Race, Immigration Status, Nationality, and Class on the US-Mexico Border" (2012)
ACADEMIC ARTICLE:
"The Making of Mexican Illegality: Immigration Exclusions Based on Race, Class Status, and Gender" (2018)
BOOK:
"Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions" by Valeria Luiselli (2017)
ACADEMIC ARTICLE:
"Imagining the border and Southern spaces: Cinematic explorations of race and gender" (2004)