The University of Arizona Press
Date: Friday, November 8, 2024
Time: 6-8 p.m., PDT
Where: ASU California Center, 1111 S. Broadway Suite 100, Los Angeles, CA
Rafael Martínez will launch his book Illegalized: Undocumented Youth Movements in the United States, on Friday, November 8, at the Arizona State University (ASU) California Center. Martinez will be in convesation with Jennifer Najera, Associate Professor in Ethnic Studies, University of California, Riverside (UCR). Books will be available for purchase and the author will sign books; the event is free and open to the public. The book launch is presented by ASU College of Integrative Sciences and Arts, UCR English Department, Global Latinidades Project, and UCR Ethnic Studies Department.
About the book:
Illegalized: Undocumented Youth Movements in the United States takes readers on a journey through the history of the rise of undocumented youth social movements in the United States in the twenty-first century. The book follows the documentation trail of undocumented youth activists spanning over two decades of organizing. Each chapter carefully analyzes key organizing strategies used by undocumented youth to produce direct forms of activism that expose and critique repressive forms of state control and violence. This inquiry is particularly generative in relation to how immigrant bodies are erased, contained, and imagined as “aliens” or “illegal.”
