Theresa Burruel Stone (Department of English) publishes “Landscapes of (non)options”
Theresa Burruel Stone and coauthor Andrea del Carmen Vázquez published “Landscapes of (non)options: Chicana youth making a life within and against cycles of imperialism and policing” in an invited, special issue on Critical Issues in Latinx Education in the international journal Race, Ethnicity and Education. They read the multiplicities of nationalism, merit, migration, anti-Blackness, anti-Indigeneity, gendered violence, and desires for familial safety and stability across Chicana experiences, contending that U.S. Latinidad orients youth to state-supporting futures. They consider these postsecondary options through the lens of racial-settler capitalism to argue that the state seeks to make the children and grandchildren of demonized migrant populations useful within local and global cycles of capitalist accumulation through devaluing human life and dispossessing Indigenous lands. This scholarship speaks to contemporary political contexts as a contribution to educational research towards understanding the violences of schooling as interconnected with policing and the military at a moment when U.S. empire further escalates its violences against Latinxs and other vulnerable peoples.