Brown-Skinned Outlaws: An Ideographic Analysis of “Illegal(s)”

Abstract

Situated within a contemporary context of U.S. immigration politics, this essay seeks to track the term illegal as utilized in public discourse to understand how the public has codified and employed it; more specifically, the essay investigates the social implications of the grammatical shift of the term illegal from an adjective to a noun. I track the plural use of the word <illegal= in public discourse before, during, and after the 2006 protests and argue that a clear and solidified ideograph of

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