Latina/o/x Criminology Panel 3: Inequalities Confronting Injustice on the Frontera (U.S.-Mexico) Border and a Declaration of a State of Emergency: A Pedagogical Standpoint of the U.S.-Mexico Border

Session Submission Type: Complete Thematic Panel

Abstract/Description

The focus of this panel discussion is to disseminate knowledge and information about society and life on the frontera (U.S.-Mexico borderlands). Mexican-American (Chicano/Tejano/Mestizo) instructors, who were born and/or grew up in the Rio Grande Valley (South Texas) and graduated from universities on the US-Mexican border, converge in explaining how to teach current issues about the U.S.-Mexico Border. Furthermore, the U.S.-Mexico border has the most dangerous cities in Mexico, but on the other side, America has its safest cities on record. As such, this panel will provide information debunking misconceptions that the media and politicians portray regarding on one of the most productive regions in America. Nevertheless, the Latinx xenophobic phenomenon will be analyzed in an effort to illuminate the fear Americans have on the frontera.

Sub Unit

• Area VII. Perceptions of Crime & Justice / 60. Fear of Crime and Perceived Risk

Division of Special Interest

• Division Session of Interest / Division on People of Color & Crime

Individual Presentations

• The Frontera (U.S-Mexico) Border: Latinx Realities and American Myths - Frank Anthony Rodriguez, North Carolina Central University; John Rodriguez, University of Texas at Arlington

• Drug Related Violence From Social Phenomena to Social Problem - Omar Camarillo, Eastern New Mexico University

• Brown in Blue: Auto-ethnographic Police Research on the U.S-Mexico Border - Eric Gamino, California State University, Northridge

• Migrant Children: Exposing Tales and Realities - Martin Guevara Urbina, Sul Ross State University

Discussants

• Omar Camarillo, Eastern New Mexico University

• Robert Duran, Texas A&M University

• Frank Anthony Rodriguez, North Carolina Central University