Latina/o Performance in the Everyday: Immigration, Affective Connections, and Latinidad Post-9/11.

Using autobiographical performance, I examine the application process for permanent residency in the United States post-911 as a cultural performance. Specifically, I draw upon my experience as a third generation Mexican American married to an Egyptian. I use our narratives of performing and embodying "authentic," desired, and ideal citizenship as a way to critically examine strategies of making do and uses of hidden and public transcripts as means for resistance and possibility. I also make connection between our respective larger cultural histories of (im)migration as a way to began to theorize the affective politics and performances of Otherness and create more complex understandings of Latinidad or mestizaje. I negotiate my role as Chicana Other/Academic complete with own family history of immigration, performing ideal citizenship post-911, a time in which immigration by both Latina/os and Arabs has come under attack once again. Dr. Calafell is an assistant professor at the University of Denver School of Communication Studies. Some of her recent essays have appeared in Critical Studies in Media Communication, Text and Performance Quarterly, and the Communication Review. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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