Carolyn Quetzal Vera: "Latin@s and Immigration"
Carolyn is a radical xicana activista-scholar from South Central Los Angeles. She is studying Ethnic Studies and Xican@ Studies. Her work is centered around social, epistemic and healing justice for communities of color in the United States and third world bodies abroad. Her family is from Quiche, Guatemala. She organizes around immigrant justice and the defense/preservation/revival of Ethnic Studies.
"To survive the Borderlands you must live sin fronteras be a crossroads.” -Gloria E. Anzaldùa |
Jordan Rodriguez:" From Al-Andalus to 9/11"
Jordan is a senior in the departments of Ethnic Studies and Philosophy at UC Berkeley. His research interest include modernity/coloniality, Latin American philosophy, Decoloniality, the application of Fanon's thought into philosophy & ethics, existentialism, and epistemology. Currently, he is beginning research on project that seeks to establish ethical imperatives building off Grosfoguel and Fanon's conception of racism as well as Fanon's phenomenological insights. He is also beginning research on the concept of "decolonial hope" through the works of decolonial religious philosophers Cornel West and Tariq Ramadan as well as other religious oriented decolonial thinkers. He is influenced by the works of Enrique Dussel, Nelson Maldonado-Torres, Ramon Grosfoguel, Lewis R Gordon, bell hooks, and Linda Alcoff.
Jordan also runs a blog titled "Decolonial Thinking" that aims to promote decolonial studies and the works of the modernity/coloniality group in a more accessible manner. http://decolonialthinking.blogspot.com/ |