Tuesday, Oct. 21

Topics: labor and migration

Read:

• Alicia Camacho, “Migrant Melancholia: Emergent Narratives of the Border Crossing,” in Migrant Imaginaries: Latino Cultural Politics in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands (2008) [DOWNLOAD]
• Andrew Gardner, “Rumour and Myth in the Labour Camps of Qatar,” Anthropology Today (Dec. 2012) [DOWNLOAD]

Oct 21 – Research Questions due

Thursday. Oct. 23

Film: Sleep Dealer (2009)

Recommended:

• An interview with Alex Rivera (the filmmaker) at Crossed Genres

 

Videos we watched in class:

1) Alex Rivera’s Border’s Trilogy, Part 1 – Families visiting each other at the border fence

2) La Bestia song (with English translations of lyrics)

3) Opening credits of the telenova “El Alma Herida”