American Dreams: DACA Dreamers, Trump as a Political and Social Event, and the Performative Practice of Storytelling in the Age of Secondary Orality

Description

In September 2017, the Trump administration announced its plan to rescind The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Program (DACA). Since then, program recipients, who have in recent years assumed the name "Dreamers," have fought back. This thesis explores how Dreamers use storytelling as a means of articulating individual and collective identity as a form of resistance in the sociopolitical climate that is Trump's America.

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1. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/1078
2. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2197&context=scripps_theses

Tags

DACA Dreamers

Storytelling

Donald Trump

Secondary Orality

Arts and Humanities

Politics and Social Change

Additional Fields

Identifer	oai:union.ndltd.org:CLAREMONT/oai:scholarship.claremont.edu:scripps_theses-2197
Date	01 January 2017
Creators	Herlinger, Emma
Publisher	Scholarship @ Claremont
Source Sets	Claremont Colleges
Detected Language	English
Type	text
Format	application/pdf
Source	Scripps Senior Theses
Rights	© 2017 Emma C. Herlinger, default