Racialized Geographies: Structural Violence at the U.S – Mexico Border
Racialized Geographies: Structural Violence at the U.S – Mexico Border The Race and Ethnic Studies Institute (RESI) invites you to attend our upcoming colloquia on Tuesday, September 27 at 12PM CDT in Rudder Tower 501, featuring Dr. Maria Cristina Morales from the University of Texas at El Paso. Dr. Morales will unpack how the U.S.-Mexico […]
Racialized Geographies: Structural Violence at the U.S – Mexico Border
The Race and Ethnic Studies Institute (RESI) invites you to attend our upcoming colloquia on Tuesday, September 27 at 12PM CDT in Rudder Tower 501, featuring Dr. Maria Cristina Morales from the University of Texas at El Paso. Dr. Morales will unpack how the U.S.-Mexico border is a racialized geography where violence towards Brown individuals surfaced through inscribed messages on their bodies aimed to repress certain groups, fear and insecurity exacerbated by militarization, and processes that entrap the most vulnerable to this liminal locality.
The U.S.-Mexico border is a racialized geographic region with mostly Brown impoverished communities on the U.S-side and Brown communities from a developing nation on the other. As a testament to the subjugated status of this border, in the 2000s the legacies of conquest surfaced through the Mexican drug war with drug cartels fighting over control of the corridor to the North, weapons smuggling from the U.S. into Mexico, and the militarization in Mexico. The urban unrest that followed, particularly in the Mexican-side of the border, spearheaded wide-spread violence. The objective of Dr. Morales’ presentation is to begin to examine how liminal localities (i.e. U.S.-Mexico border), interlocks with processes of racialization and in turn how these intersections shape exposures to violence.
Join us in person and get to learn more about Dr. Morales’ research on Tuesday, September 27th. Registration is now open and space is limited. Use this link to register: bit.ly/3LvSJUQ