The University of Arizona Press
Date: Thursday, December 5, 2024
Time: 5 p.m., PST
Where: University Library Community Room, 5151 State University Dr, Cal State Los Angeles, CA
Rafael Martínez will speak about his book Illegalized: Undocumented Youth Movements in the United States at California State University, Los Angeles. He will present his visionary approach to crafting counter archives that elevate decolonial and anti-neoliberal knowledge. Martínez is an assistant professor in the Southwest Borderlands Initiative at Arizona State University whose work focuses on immigrant rights, mixed-status families, and Latinx cultural and historical productions in the Southwest borderlands.
This in-person event is free and open to the public, and it is sponsored by the Department of Chicana(o) & Latina(o) Studies and the Cal State Family Dreamers Resource Center.
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.”
