"Low-Intensity Reinforcements: Cholos, Chúntaros, and the “Criminal” Abandonments of the New Frontier"

Tuesday, March 27 at 4:30pm to 6:30pm

A.D. White House, Guerlac Room

Gilberto's scholarship emerges from his ethnographic research on the production of criminalities in the Mexico-US borderlands, particularly on a population of criminalized youth and their vexing practices. His interests range from questions of state and governance, to race, difference, and power, to migrations and borders. He has published in Latino Studies, Social Text, Identities, and other venues. His book will be out in June with Duke University Press, titled Barrio Libre: Criminalizing States and Delinquent Refusals of the New Frontier.

Sponsored by Latino Studies Program; co-sponsored by the Institute for the Social Sciences, Society for the Humanities, Department of Anthropology.