She completely misses the boat on SB1070.
Mischaracterization of the law: “The new Arizona law generally known as SB 1070 is considered the strictest anti-immigrant legislation in the country and is explicitly intended to drive undocumented immigrants out of the state. One reason it has instigated a boycott is because to a whole lot of people, myself included, it appears to not only invite but require the police to engage in racial profiling.”
Uhm, no that is not what it says. The statute requires police not to engage in racial profiling. Sandra paid for quite a bit of education, but she still does not comprehend what she reads. I’d want my money back. A bit about Sandra:
Sandra Soto, Ph.D.Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies * Office: Tyndall 108 * Phone: 626-9150 * Email: sotos@email.arizona.edu * Office Hours: TBA
Sandra K. Soto is Director of Graduate Studies, Co-coordinator of the Chicana/Latina Studies Concentration, and affiliate faculty of English, Mexican American Studies, and Latin American Studies.
She holds a PhD in English from the University of Texas at Austin (with a focus in Ethnic and Third World Literature). Her interdisciplinary research agenda draws on Chicana/o and Latina/o literary and cultural studies, queer theory, and gender studies to offer innovative approaches to the overdetermined terrain of social relations, cultural representation, and knowledge production. Her book Reading Chican@ Like a Queer: The De-Mastery of Desire (University of Texas Press, 2010), replaces the race-based oppositional paradigm of Chicano literary studies with a less didactic, more flexible, framework geared for a queer analysis of the discursive relationship between racialization and sexuality. She is currently working on her second book tentatively titled Feeling Greater Mexico, which pursues unlikely connections between critical transnational studies and U.S. ethnic studies and focuses on the Mexican photographer Graciela Iturbide. Her teaching interests include Chicana/o and Latina/o literary and cultural studies, feminist theories, transnational feminisms, critical race studies, US Third World Feminism, and queer theory.
Anyone out there know what queer theory is? Gosh, I always found the Sandras y Panchos in my classes to be tiresome. And you know, I am Hispanic. I probably would have booed as well. Graduation time is not about her nor her politics. Someone should have told her that before she wrote her speech.
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Shoot, not everyone can read so here it is on video Sandra.
Then again, Ann atleast apologized for her boo boo in recognizing the wrong grads.
