The (Im)Materiality of Race: The Representation and Circulation of Brownness in the Liberal Media and Domingo Martinez’s The Boy Kings of Texas

  • Magda García
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Abstract

“Twenty-first Century Literary Border Formations: Neoliberalism and Domingo Martínez’s The Boy Kings of Texas,” Magda García, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Garcia examines Domingo Martinez’s 2012 memoir, The Boy Kings of Texas, arguing that the book presents us the racialized neoliberal subject perfected.

Keywords

American Community Survey Intimate Terrorism Material Context Border Culture Queer Woman 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Magda García
    • 1
  1. 1.University of CaliforniaSanta BarbaraUSA

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