Spatial and Discursive Violence in the U.S. Southwest

In this webinar, Drs. Sanchez and Pita will discuss their book titled Spatial and Discursive Violence in the U.S. Southwest (Duke University Press, 2021). The book critically examines the participation of Chicana/os in the dispossession of Indigenous populations before being dispossessed themselves with the U.S. invasion of the Southwest. Their work takes on an important political task, both in terms of Chicana/os’ relationship to the past but also to their positioning in the present.