Albert Ponce Ph.D.  

Professor of Political Science, Co-Coordinator Social Justice Studies  

    

In his lecture Dr. Ponce excavates the constitutive nature of race, law, and violence and its development in producing the racialized disposability and coloniality of migrants & Black, Indigenous and people of color in the United States.  By analyzing how the production of racialized subjectivities places people outside of law’s protections, specifically for labor and spatial control, Resisting Racial Violence articulates how these historical and contemporary processes play out in the courts and in the streets building the possibilities for a decolonial future.  Yet, the terrain of contestation is situated in the struggle for ideas and in the practice of those targeted for state-sanctioned racial violence.  Theorizing racial violence illuminates the ways in which it is embedded in the very social fabric of the United States occluding its ubiquity.  This lecture contributes to the development of centering the everyday lives of migrants and racialized people who seek to reclaim their humanity while instantiating the possibility for emerging from the conditions of coloniality and towards a future beyond neoliberal domination.  This movement towards decolonizing race is a call for a full humanity and the abolition of white supremacy.