Nicholas De Genova’s doctoral dissertation, entitled Working the Boundaries, Making the Difference: Race and Space in Mexican Chicago, explores socio-cultural processes implicated in the mutually constitutive productions of racialized difference and urban space in the experiences of Mexican migrant factory workers in Chicago. De Genova’s research posits a Mexican Chicago as a standpoint of critique from which to interrogate the U.S. nation-state, political economy, racialized citizenship, and immigration law. His article “Race, Space, and the Re-invention of Latin America in Mexican Chicago” is forthcoming in Latin American Perspectives (1998), and a photo essay entitled “The Junkyard of Futures Past” will appear in Anthropology and Humanism (December 1997). De Genova has previously published another photo essay called “Split-Level Bedlam: Chicago at the End of the Twentieth Century” in Public Culture (Fall 1996). He has also published on the politics of rap music and popular cultural criticism in Transition (Fall 1995), and his essay “Gangster Rap and Nihilism in Black America: Some Questions of Life and Death” appeared in Social Text (Fall 1995).
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