Rodriguez-Bozzetto, Renata

Since the economic crisis from 2007, an extensive debate matching unemployment and immigration has been central to conservative discourses. Although progressive organizations have been critical of the SB1070 law in Arizona for its pervasive racial profiling content, some individuals seem to ignore the strong history of legislation, cultural apparatus and social norms that were made to support white supremacy within the history of United States. As immigration comes to the American debate, various politics adopted by the United States towards South American countries have been ignored. My objective with this research is to take a closer look at the artistic representations that, through mass media communications, have allowed the formation and solidification of “ethnosexual frontiers”1. By taking an interdisciplinary academic approach, I hope to make evident how the conceptualization of the “immigrant body” is fundamental to the establishment of fears that perpetuate segregation within American culture.