CANCELLED: Independence(s) Series: “What does Latinx, as a term, do, and for whom? Unpacking the foundations, and untapped limits, of Latinx Studies”

“What does Latinx, as a term, do, and for whom? Unpacking the foundations, and untapped limits, of Latinx Studies”

 

Dr. Salvador Vidal-Ortiz

American University

In this talk, Vidal-Ortiz will unpack the limits of the crossing by the X. He will explain the inclusion logics on the X’s use. By engaging on the history of the Latina/o studies, Vidal-Ortiz will show the potentiality of the X’s crossing, which is, still, not addressing race, racialization, and transnationalism.

Dr. Salvador Vidal-Ortiz is associate professor of sociology at American University, where he also teaches queer studies and Latinx studies for the Critical Race, Gender & Culture Studies Collaborative. He coedited The Sexuality of Migration: Border Crossings and Mexican Immigrant Men (NYU Press, 2009) and Queer Brown Voices: Personal Narratives of Latina/o LGBT Activism (University of Texas Press, 2015), co-authored Race and Sexuality (Polity Press, 2018), and co-edited in Spanish, “Trans-ing Knowledges” – on education and trans people in Argentina (Universidad Nacional de La Plata, 2018). He is currently working on his manuscript on Santería, race, gender and sexuality, tentatively titled: An Instrument of the Orishas: Racialized Sexual Minorities in Santería, and editing a Gender/Sexuality/Migration Handbook for Routledge/Taylor & Francis. Along with Katie Acosta and Jessica Fields, he tri-chaired the 2018 American Sociological Association’s Sexualities preconference “Sexualities, Race and Empire: Resistance in an Uncertain Time.” He was a Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence at College of the Holy Cross, in Gender, Sexuality, and 

Women’s Studies.