Historicizing “Terrortory” from the Bay to LA: Violence as Socialization in Contemporary Settler Colonial California

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Abstract

Historicizing California within Native conceptions of time and place, this work connects an ethnographic study of a college preparation program for Latine youth in the San Francisco Bay Area and the current ICE raids in Los Angeles. It considers Latine youths’ vulnerability to the settler logics of elimination and coercive exploitation by engaging Brayboy and Chin’s (2020) “terrortory” as an analytic. It examines how U.S. settler schooling and society comprise of possessive and aesthetic orientations to land and water, socializing non-Black and non-Indigenous Mexican-origin youth away from relationality with land and one another. This work argues that as settlers/arrivants living on Indigenous lands, we must embrace land beyond possession and aesthetic to engage in belonging that exceeds settler empire.

Author

• Theresa Burruel Stone, Sonoma State University