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Latino/a Mobility in California History

Genevieve Carpio, Javier Cienfuegos, Ivonne Gonzalez, Karen Lazcano, Katherine Lee Berry, Joshua Mandell, Christofer Rodelo, Alfonso Toro, Authors

This comment was written by Christofer Rodelo on 29 Oct 2014.

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Embodying Representation

Ivonne's response, and in particular her second question, brings to light the discrepancies between cultural productions like film and novel in representing ethno-racial subjects. One clear distinction in how racialized people are portrayed is the construction of the body. As the extensive scholarship on embodiment has shown, our understandings of identity are necessarily informed by corporeal acts. We see the bodies of Arturo and Camilla differently from what is described in the printed text what is acted out in the feature film. The book allows for a racialized body described by internal rumination and external assumptions, while the film is solely the external gaze of the actors and viewers. It would benefit our conversations on representation to place embodiment as a crucial locus of ethno-racial formation, not only for this week but for all narratives we discuss.

For further reading on embodiment, particularly as it pertains to technology and media, see Maria Fernandez's work on cyberfeminism and racism. 
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