Week Four: Roque Ramírez

1.     selective inclusion p. 162

2.     cultural citizenship p. 162

3.     How do “cultural works provide the means to materially renegotiate citizenship and the importance of reconceiving the very meaning of citizenship itself.”  p. 164

4.     “Sexiles” p. 164

5.     “the negotiation and relations between immigrant and nonimmigrant Latino queers have taken place on two social fields, one political and the other cultural.  Their efforts to mark identity, visibility, and space on these fields speak precisely to the notion of cultural citizenship, of collective membership always in contestation.”  p. 164

6.     “El Corazón revolved around violence, shame, and stigma on the body.  The everyday violence of poverty was present, but so were the gendered ways through which the state and its forces of repression instilled fear in the general population.”  P. 169

7.     violence and the body (military heteronormativity) p. 170-1

8.     “That both the male and female bodies were ‘exposed’ to community reflection in the play afforded those audiences in the Mission District an opportunity to reconsider the violence of Central American revolutionary history and struggle through the lenses of gender and sexuality.”  p. 176

9.     this art “was a product of cultural and political crossings” p. 176

10.  “use of cultural productions to challenge public discourses of criminalization, of ‘aliens’ invading the land of rightful (white) citizens.” p. 176

11.  What is the relationship of spirit and visibility, and “collective actions for visibility and space” and their relationship to “social space”  p. 177

12.  The “social space of language” p. 182-3

13.  “Cultural productions can be sites of resistance, alternative ways to engage the ideological state apparatus’s forms of exclusion and marginalization.” p. 183 

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