Over the last sixty years, the relationship between the United States and Latin America has been marred by ideological conflict, imbalances of power, and economic disparity. It also contributes to the race and migration literature by suggesting the need for an intersectional approach to studying “illegality.” This article shows the gravity of “illegality” as it extends across legal status, nativity, race, and generation status. Both immigrant and Mexican American women experience feelings of belonging and exclusion but face more exclusion associated with an anti-immigrant sentiment. “Racializing illegality” unfolds within institutional contexts that include the workplace, criminal justice system, educational institutions, and health care settings. Findings suggest a form of discrimination that is intersectional and imbued within an anti-immigrant climate. Drawing on 60 interviews with Mexican-origin women in Houston, Texas, this research explores how documented and Mexican American women are racialized, the institutional contexts in which this process occurs, and how women’s racialized experiences relate to feelings of belonging and exclusion. Still, less is known about how “illegality” complicates racialized experiences, and even less is known about how gender and class further complicate this process. An introduction of the remaining essays in this #RhetoricSoWhite forum concludes the introduction.īy shedding light on how Mexicans are racialized, scholars have brought racism to the forefront of migration research.
Kendi's work on antiracism, and anchoring my analysis in Paula Chakravartty et al.'s “#CommunicationSoWhite,” I make an honest effort to diagnose aspects of rhetoric's racism problem and suggest some of the attitudinal and material shifts that will be necessary to challenge the whiteness of rhetorical studies. Drawing inspiration and guidance from Ibram X. Racism need not imply that evildoers in pointy hoods are pulling the strings of the journal and field indeed, the assumption that racism is rooted in the bad thoughts and deeds of intentional individuals is part of the problem and is further evidence of the field's ignorance on the subject. This introductory essay makes the case that rhetorical studies as a field and the Quarterly Journal of Speech as the journal of record for that field are racist.
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