This essay examines how the concepts of enclaves, satellites (Squires), and undercommons (Harney and Moten) intersect in ways that create space for fugitivity, anticolonial thinking, and futurity. Enclaves and satellites can function as a place of hiding to protect radical gestures, ideas, and activism, whereas the undercommons work as spaces to upend institutions, organizations, and cultures. Using the “brown” commons (José Esteban Muñoz) as examples, I argue that, in conversation, the brown commons and undercommons work rhetorically through fugitivity and futurity (as inspiration, connection, and hopefulness) to create spaces of refuge, rupture, and precariousness. In this study, various art forms from Colombian and Chilean artists illustrate how refuge, rupture, and precariousness rhetorically function in public spaces as well as enclaves or satellites; provide the kind of in-between cracks of nourishment, growth, and feeling/being alive geared toward futurity; but can also reinforce anti-Blackness through erasure. In the end, I argue that the undercommons as a theoretical framework informing the brown commons might resist some of this anti-Blackness that resides within latinidad across the Américas.

Book Review| June 01 2014 Border Rhetorics: Citizenship and Identity on the US-Mexico Frontier Border Rhetorics: Citizenship and Identity on the US-Mexico Frontier. Edited by D. Robert DeChaine. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2012; pp. 273. $34.95 paper. Stacey K. Sowards Stacey K. Sowards University of Texas at El Paso Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2014) 17 (2): 363–367. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.17.2.0363 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Stacey K. Sowards; Border Rhetorics: Citizenship and Identity on the US-Mexico Frontier. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 June 2014; 17 (2): 363–367. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.17.2.0363 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveMichigan State University PressRhetoric and Public Affairs Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. © 2014 Michigan State University Board of Trustees. All rights reserved.2014 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.