Amexica: de Mexico, por la frontera y al norte. Exploring the axis of 21st century Mexican and U.S. identities through printed and visual millenial rhetorical mediums

Thomas, Kaitlin Elizabeth (2018). Amexica: de Mexico, por la frontera y al norte. Exploring the axis of 21st century Mexican and U.S. identities through printed and visual millenial rhetorical mediums. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

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Abstract

This dissertation delves into re-casted, re-negotiated, and emergent U.S. and Latino perspectives that are resulting from trans-border cultural and national fusion and undocumented Mexican immigration to the U.S. between the years 2000-2015. Five cultural products-- newspaper headlines, literature, music, political cartoons, and memes-- as produced by Mexican individuals on one side of the U.S.-Mexican Border and undocumented individuals on the other, who are part of the millennial generation, are considered against fossilized notions of gender, race, class, and national identity to determine if and how millennial Mexicans and millennial undocumented individuals are leveraging specific cultural tokens to be tools of defiance and to promulgate a re-writing of self.

Type of Work:	Thesis (Doctorates > Ph.D.)
Award Type:	Doctorates > Ph.D.
Supervisor(s):	Supervisor(s) Email ORCID James, Conrad UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Lough Professor, Francis UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
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College/Faculty:	Colleges (2008 onwards) > College of Arts & Law
School or Department:	School of Languages, Cultures, Art History and Music, Department of Modern Languages
Funders:	None/not applicable
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races J Political Science > JV Colonies and colonization. Emigration and immigration. International migration P Language and Literature > PC Romance languages
URI:	http://etheses.bham.ac.uk/id/eprint/8476

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