Date of Award
8-8-2017
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
Modern & Classical Languages
First Advisor
Dr. Leslie Marsh
Second Advisor
Dr. William Nichols
Abstract
Racialized Latino subjects in The X-Files are representative of American paranoia surrounding immigration and multiculturalism, and the narratives of alien infiltration and infection are manifestations of these fears of Latino racial integration in the United States. A surge in nationalist and nativist sentiment in US media leads to negative bias against Latinos; metaphors of hybridization, colonization, pollution, infiltration, and contagion are used to code Latinos as threats to the nation. This thesis analyzes five episodes of The X Files featuring Latinos which demonstrate these cultural anxieties.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.57709/10250305
Recommended Citation
Aamer, Nadiyah, ""El chupacabra vive": Ansiedades sobre la latinidad en The X-Files." Thesis, Georgia State University, 2017.
doi: https://doi.org/10.57709/10250305