Lecture by Steven Osuna, Ph.D.,
Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at California State University, Long Beach
This talk will discuss the development of a “transnational moral panic” over MS13 and the development of a racialized social marker: the marero. Through the development of social knowledge around this social marker, the marero has been labeled an alleged transnational security threat throughout North and Central America by the U.S. Government. It is a specter that embodies the race, class, and gendered anxieties produced by the contradictions of neoliberal racial capitalism.
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