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Radical Reads: Immigration and Borders

May 11, 2021 at 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
| Zoom

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Join us on Tuesday, May 11 from 3-4:30 p.m. to discuss immigration and borders.

Please read or listen to the following prior to our discussion (all are free and publicly available). Don’t worry if you don’t have time to read or listen to everything; you’re still welcome to attend and contribute!

  • Read: Borderlands/La Frontera, Preface and Chapter 1
  • Read: Melting the Ambiguity and Power of ICE
  • Read: Confronting the Long Arc of U.S. Border Policy
  • Read: Beyond Borders Caucus Manifesto
  • Read: Black Immigrants’ Lives Matter: Disrupting the Dialogue on Immigrant Detention
  • Watch/Listen: Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and Racist Nationalism

Links to all of these resources are available on BMCC Reads’ site:
https://openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu/bmccreads/5-11-rad-reads-immigration-and-borders/

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Radical Reads is a monthly discussion group that uses readings, podcasts, and other media to engage the BMCC community in current social, political, and economic issues through a critical, abolitionist lens.. See future readings that are planned.

For more information, contact Joanna Thompson at jothompson@bmcc.cuny.edu or Jean Amaral at  jamaral@bmcc.cuny.edu.


Details
Date:
May 11
Time:
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Event categories:
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Open to:
BMCC Students, Faculty, Staff