Dylan Rodriguez

Dylan Rodríguez, professor and chair of the Department of Ethnic Studies at UC Riverside, is a guest lecturer for the Department of American Studies. He presents, "Inhabiting the Impasse: Racial Genocide and the Logic of Evisceration," on Wednesday, Feb. 27, with a brown bag at 1 p.m. in the Student Union Building's Santa Ana room A; and the lecture at 3 p.m. in SUB Acoma rooms A & B.

How does historical logic of racial genocide permeate the most familiar systems of state violence, cultural production, institutionalized knowledge, liberation struggle and social identity? How do ordinary people (including scholars) inhabit racial genocide—make sense of it, narrate it, suffer it and revolt against it? In this talk,How do the historical logics of racial genocide permeate our most familiar systems of state violence, cultural production, institutionalized knowledge, liberation struggle, and social identity? How do ordinary people (including scholars) inhabit racial genocide—make sense of it, narrate it, suffer it, and revolt against it?

In this talk, Rodríguez examines how the genocidal and proto-genocidal logics of social liquidation, cultural extermination, physiological evisceration, and racist terror become normalized features of everyday life in different historical periods, up to and including the "post-civil rights" and "post-racial" moments. examines how genocidal and proto-genocidal logic of social liquidation, cultural extermination, physiological evisceration and racist terror become normalized features of everyday life in different historical periods, up to and including the "post-civil rights" and "post-racial" moments.

Rodríguez is a founding member of Critical Resistance: Beyond the Prison Industrial Complex and the Critical Ethnic Studies Association. He has working in/alongside various social movements and activist collectives.

Additional sponsors include Women's Studies and the American Studies Graduate Student Association. For more information, contact Antonio Tiongson.

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