CGS 112 Chapter Notes - Chapter Article Notes : Heterosexuality, Race Traitor, Mental Disorder
19 Jul 2018
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Cgs 112 article notes looking like a lesbian: sexual monitoring at the us-mexico. "up until as recently as 1990, lesbian immigrants were excludable and deportable from the united. States" (77) (78) gay people allowed to be barred from entering the us because they were considered to be mentally unstable. Intuitions are focused on strict interpretations of sexuality. "her hair was cut shorter than some women"s": constructing. " sig(cid:374)ifi(cid:272)a(cid:374)t (cid:374)u(cid:373)(cid:271)ers of i(cid:373)(cid:373)igra(cid:374)t (cid:373)e(cid:374) (cid:272)a(cid:373)e to ins atte(cid:374)tio(cid:374) o(cid:374) the (cid:271)asis of se(cid:454)ual criminalization" (80) Lesbian sexuality is not as policed as gay sexuality, so therefore not as criminalized and harder to track through records. "immigration-service techniques, which involved atomizing and evaluating her appearance, documents, and speech, also echoed and extended the historical processes whereby latina bodies became racialized and sexualized in the context of imposing the us-mexico border" (84) Multiple checkpoints (85) being scrutinized for everything, even where you were coming from, when, what you were wearing, what"s in your suitcase.
