For the crit/cult Lisa Flores' most recent book, Deportable & Disposable on rhetoric of "illegal immigration". Flores has been a leading voice on anti-racism in rhetoric and crit/cult theory, taking leadership roles in various ways to push Comm Studies and rhetoric into more substantive, material positions that align with intellectual commitments of crit/cult theory. How are they following cases in her book defines Why Theory Matters?

CASES:

Emergence of "illegal alien"Careful work on how Mexicans distinct from Euro imms and Asian immsSee Omi & Winant on "racial projects" p. 25Get into racial performatives (Ehlers) p. 28+

Emergence of "wetback" as 4^th tropeCollapses body logics & mobility, crisis is bodies flooding over border (see Cisneros!)Gave the corporeality needed to "see race"

Zoot suit riots, 1943"Blackened violence" in similarity to lynchingSee p. 59 for excellent parsing herWhite violence as distinct, sanctioned, in service of nationGet into affective economies (Massumi) p. 61-2

Bracero Program (1942-1966)Happy Slave Happy Contract LaborerRacial "good news" feature control, temporary Sets tone for "contract labor" to be solution to imm issues - beware the happy promise