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Apr
19
2019

Policing Life & Death: Race, Violence, and Resistance in Puerto Rico

When: Friday, April 19, 2019
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM CT

Where: Kresge Hall, 1-515, 1880 Campus Drive , Evanston, IL 60208 map it

Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students

Contact: Carlos Octavio Ballinas   (847) 467-3980

Group: The Latina and Latino Studies Program

Category: Academic

Description:

Lecture by Marisol LeBrón, Ph.D.,

Assistant Professor in the Department of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies at the University of Texas at Austin

 

In this talk, Marisol LeBrón will discuss her new book Policing Life and Death: Race, Violence, and Resistance in Puerto Rico. In the book, LeBrón traces the growth and consolidation of punitive governance in Puerto Rico from the late-twentieth century to the present moment. Punitive governance emerged as a way for the Puerto Rican state to manage the deep and ongoing crises stemming from the archipelago’s incorporation into the United States as a colonial territory. A structuring component of everyday life for many Puerto Ricans, police power has reinforced social inequality and worsened conditions of vulnerability in marginalized communities. Drawing from a range of sources, LeBrón provides examples of how Puerto Ricans negotiate and resist their subjection to increased levels of segregation, criminalization, discrimination, and harm. Policing Life and Death shows how Puerto Ricans are actively rejecting punitive solutions and working toward alternative understandings of safety and a more just future.

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