Brown Lives Matters: The Long History of Police Violence against Latino/a/x People

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This course examines three main social processes in the history of oppression and violence as well as resistance Latino/a/x People in the US: namely, (1) how national and local organizations -such as the immigration apparatus, law enforcement agencies, the criminal justice system, and the Media – have historically criminalized Latino/a/x communities; (2) how processes of racialization - and the conflation of structural and cultural characteristics to specific groups – have been historically used to manufacture recognizable social forms of identities to justify the criminalization, detention, killing, search, surveillance, and sterilization of brown and black bodies; and (3) the ways in which Latino/a/x communities have organized to contest these practices and ideologies. To examine these historical dynamics, this course review theories of policing, power, oppression and resistance case studies, and peer review articles.