Week Four: Luibhéid

1.     The question of an individual or community’s relationship to the state, and the regulation of women’s sexuality.

2.     Federal, state, individual and First Nations

3.     The project of immigration before 1891.  Pamphlets and propaganda for the colonization of this land.  For a recent take on this (which does NOT address the “people” of this land in any meaningful way) see Bernard Baiylin’s The Barbarous Years:  The Peopling of British North America:  The Conflict of Civilizations, 1600-1675

4.     Early Developments (1875-1890):  1., Federal Control, 2., “selective immigration” and 3., “the regulation of women’s sexuality” p. 3

5.     The Family!  All through out this piece, but especially the definition of the family as being a male father, a female mother and their coupled offspring; coded sexuality as heterosexual and procreative, and finally gendered women through the idea of deviation form norms, and dependency on males for mobility p. 3

6.     Immigration and the construction of whiteness.  “Immigration control was a key institution to renegotiate whiteness.” p. 6

7.     The Immigration Act of 1891 and federal control, list of undesirable traits, and focus on domesticity and dependency pp. 8-9

8.     Attribution of sexual vice and corruption to immigrants p. 14

9.     The Immigration Act of 1917 pp. 14-5

10.  “Responses to undocumented:  drawn to US because of globalization, demand for cheep labor, and increased fear by US citizens about the impact on cultural institutions and norms” p. 24-5

11.  Power based personal violence!  And the Immigration Marriage Fraud Amendment p. . 24-5

12.  Inspection of immigrants:  sexuality, blood, property, ability to engage in activism and community pp. 25-6

13.  “Penalizing anyone unable or unwilling to conform.” p. 28.  Conform to what?  Relate to Lowe.

14.  NB:  many acts are names and described in this piece.  Try to keep those as a running list of knowledge demands, and as a resource for future scholarship.