{"title":"A tour de force of Mexican rhetoricity and racialization","authors":"N. M. Lozano","doi":"10.1080/00335630.2023.2165235","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Lisa Flores ’ book, Deportable and Disposable: Public Rhetoric and the Making of the “ Illegal ” Immigrant is a tour de force of Mexican/American history, rhetoricity, and racialization. Flores argues that racialization is rhetorical, which is to say performative, inter-sectional, and crafted in public discourse. Flores argues that racialization creates shared perceptions of Mexicans that take the form of body logics of race and mobility logics of borders (13). Body logics are the sightlines of race that tie racial categories to assumptions of inferiority and superiority. Mobility logics “ trace the varied racialized associations that prompt the sensing of race ” (13). The mobility logics connect the perceptions of bodies to the lived mobilities of everyday life","PeriodicalId":51545,"journal":{"name":"Quarterly Journal of Speech","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3000,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"11","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Quarterly Journal of Speech","FirstCategoryId":"98","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00335630.2023.2165235","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"COMMUNICATION","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Lisa Flores ’ book, Deportable and Disposable: Public Rhetoric and the Making of the “ Illegal ” Immigrant is a tour de force of Mexican/American history, rhetoricity, and racialization. Flores argues that racialization is rhetorical, which is to say performative, inter-sectional, and crafted in public discourse. Flores argues that racialization creates shared perceptions of Mexicans that take the form of body logics of race and mobility logics of borders (13). Body logics are the sightlines of race that tie racial categories to assumptions of inferiority and superiority. Mobility logics “ trace the varied racialized associations that prompt the sensing of race ” (13). The mobility logics connect the perceptions of bodies to the lived mobilities of everyday life
期刊介绍:
The Quarterly Journal of Speech (QJS) publishes articles and book reviews of interest to those who take a rhetorical perspective on the texts, discourses, and cultural practices by which public beliefs and identities are constituted, empowered, and enacted. Rhetorical scholarship now cuts across many different intellectual, disciplinary, and political vectors, and QJS seeks to honor and address the interanimating effects of such differences. No single project, whether modern or postmodern in its orientation, or local, national, or global in its scope, can suffice as the sole locus of rhetorical practice, knowledge and understanding.