Brown Lives Matters: Racialization, Police Violence and the US Latino/a/x Community

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