The University of Arizona Press
Join this special evening to celebrate the book release of UNDOCUMENTS with a reading a discussion with its author John-Michael Rivera.
When: Wednesday, March 31, 2021, 6:30 p.m. MST
This online event is part of our Spring 2021 Event Series. This event is free via Zoom, but registration is required.
While grappling with anxiety and the physical and mental health consequences of the way the United States treats immigrant bodies, John-Michael Rivera documents and scrutinizes what it means to seek opportunities in America. With a focus on the poetics of Latinx documentality itself, this book is concerned with the complicated and at times contradictory ways peoples of Greater Mexico have been documented and undocumented within systems of colonial knowledges, and how these peoples have been rendered as specters of the bureaucratic state. Rivera takes us through the painful, anxiety-ridden, and complex nature of what it means to be documented or undocumented, and the cruelty married to each of these states of being.
Author Rivera will read from his new book. University of Arizona Press author Frederick Luis Aldama will moderate the event.
UNDOCUMENTS is part of the University of Arizona Press Latinx Pop Culture Series, co-edited by Frederick Luis Aldama and Arturo J. Aldama.
Latinx Pop Culture is a series that aims to shed light on all aspects of Latinx cultural production and consumption as well as the Latinx presence globally in popular cultural phenomena in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
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