1165 - Latinx Politics: Rights, Resistance, and Race in the Trump Era

Session Submission Type: Paper Session 100min

Description

Social scientists have long demonstrated that laws, policies, and political rhetoric convey clear messages about how government views particular groups of people. By extending and retracting rights, benefits, and protections, the state controls access to tangible social goods and shapes popular notions of belonging and deservingness. At the same time, these actions set the stage for targeted groups—often racial and ethnic minorities—to react with various forms of civic and political engagement. Given the Trump administration’s active dehumanization, criminalization, and racialization of Latinx people, this panel invites papers that advance our understanding of how, why, and to what ends Latinx groups engage formally and informally within civic and political spheres in the Trump era. Papers may adopt a national, state, or local-level analytical lens and are encouraged to center on particular groups, organizations, or community actions to help elucidate Latinxs’ promotion of social justice through civic and political engagement. Papers with intersectional and comparative approaches are especially encouraged.

Sub Unit

• Section on Latina/o Sociology / Latinx Politics: Rights, Resistance, and Race in the Trump Era

Session Organizers

• Elizabeth M. Aranda, University of South Florida

• Angela S. Garcia, University of Chicago

Individual Presentations

• “A City of Puentes, Not Paredes”: Latina/o Activism and the Struggle for Sanctuary - Gilda Laura Ochoa, Pomona College

• Oppositional Consciousness, Threat, and the Paradox of Latino Social Movement Participation - Greg Prieto, University of San Diego

• “Type of Movement We Gon' Need A Change:” Youth Politics of Intersectionality and Political Quilting - Uriel Serrano, University of California, Santa Cruz

Discussant

• Juan Manuel Pedroza, University of California, Santa Cruz