"Mexican, Not Latino": A T-shirt as an Artifact of Creative Subversion. Issue 1 (February 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Puebla, César A. Cisneros
• Is Part Of: International review of qualitative research. Volume 12:Issue 1(2019)
• Page Start: 36
• Page End: 41
• Publication Date: 2019-02
• Subjects: authoritarianism -- discursive terrorism -- culture -- Mexican identity -- indigenous; Qualitative research -- Periodicals; Social sciences -- Research -- Periodicals; Social justice -- Periodicals; Qualitative research; Social justice; Social sciences -- Research; Periodicals; Electronic journals; 001.42
• DOI: 10.1525/irqr.2019.12.1.36
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1940-8447

Abstract

In this brief piece, I introduce "state terrorism" and "accumulation by dispossession" as a framework to represent Donald Trump as a specific personification of a large group of past and current presidents who have led or actually are leading some nations in a particular way. It is formulated as a demand to study the daily life using qualitative methodologies and create new ways of producing useful knowledge to actively transform our societies. A T-shirt is depicted as an artifact of creative subversion in the context of a permanent dialogue between Mexicans and Americans on public themes such as a wall on the border.