The Latinx Project Present a Book Talk on How Migrant Suffering Sustains White Democracy, 10/30

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Friday, October 30, from 6 to 7:05 PM

Cristina Beltrán, Ph.D., works at the intersection of Latinx politics and political theory. She is an associate professor and director of graduate studies in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University. From 2001 until 2011, she taught in the Political Science Department at Haverford College; in 2013-14, she was a resident member at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J., and in 2019 she was an advanced seminar member at the School for Advanced Research in Santa Fe, N.M.

Her work has appeared in Political Theory, the Du Bois Review, Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies, Political Research Quarterly, and various edited volumes. She is currently the co-editor of Theory & Event, a peer-reviewed journal that publishes work by scholars working at the intersections of political theory, cultural theory, political economy, aesthetics, philosophy, and the arts. She is also an occasional guest on MSNBC.

Her forthcoming book Cruelty as Citizenship: How Migrant Suffering Sustains White Democracy explores the American right’s deep antipathy toward nonwhite migrants from Mexico and Latin America and examines why acts of cruelty against migrants are so gratifying (and even pleasurable) for many in the Republican Party. Other book projects include Uncertain Identities: Aesthetics, Affect, and the Shifting Politics of Race, a two-volume collection of essays that explores a variety of topics including Latino conservatism, sovereignty and desire, the aesthetics of representation, and the multiracial challenge of working ethically at the intersection of race and political theory.

You can register for this talk here.

You can find out more about the Latinx Project here.