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(Re)Making the Immigrant Body: Rhetoric, Materiality, and Social Protest in 'La Gran Marcha' of March 25, 2006
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(Re)Making the Immigrant Body:
Rhetoric, Materiality, and Social Protest in “La Gran Marcha” of March 25, 2006
ABSTRACT:
From March to May of 2006, several million immigrants from
around the country engaged in organized protests. This essay examines La Gran Marcha of March 25, 2006, the largest of these demonstrations, which took place in Los Angeles. I use scholarship on material rhetoric to argue that the protest was a material rhetoric in two senses: the material bodies of protestors functioned rhetorically and the protestors’ demonstrations had material effects. More specifically, I argue that La Gran Marcha functioned to (re)make the immigrant body and the body of immigrants present, concrete, singular, and unruly. This essay thickens our understanding of the rhetoric of immigration by introducing the vernacular rhetoric of immigrants into modern immigration debates. Moreover, the essay challenges conventional social protest scholarship by focusing the study of protest on the embodied rhetoric itself rather than its content or intent.
KEYWORDS:
immigration, materiality, social protest
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| | Authors: Cisneros, Josue. |
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(Re)Making the Immigrant Body:
Rhetoric, Materiality, and Social Protest in “La Gran Marcha” of March 25, 2006
ABSTRACT:
From March to May of 2006, several million immigrants from
around the country engaged in organized protests. This essay examines La Gran Marcha
of March 25, 2006, the largest of these demonstrations, which took place in Los Angeles.
I use scholarship on material rhetoric to argue that the protest was a material rhetoric in
two senses: the material bodies of protestors functioned rhetorically and the protestors’
demonstrations had material effects. More specifically, I argue that La Gran Marcha
functioned to (re)make the immigrant body and the body of immigrants present, concrete,
singular, and unruly. This essay thickens our understanding of the rhetoric of
immigration by introducing the vernacular rhetoric of immigrants into modern
immigration debates. Moreover, the essay challenges conventional social protest
scholarship by focusing the study of protest on the embodied rhetoric itself rather than its
content or intent.
KEYWORDS:
immigration, materiality, social protest
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