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Book Talk: Marisol LeBron, Against Muerto Rico

Join us to celebrate the new book by FMST/CRES Professor Marisol LeBrón – Against Muerto Rico: Lessons from the Verano Boricua – with discussant Camilla Hawthorne, UCSC SOC/CRES.

In Against Muerto Rico, Prof. LeBrón approaches the 2019 Verano Boricua protests – the largest in Puerto’s Rico’s modern history, when the populace mobilized to force the resignation of governor Ricardo Rosselló – from a sociological standpoint, exploring what she considers the six most significant political lessons of the rebellion and the ongoing struggle against the forces of death in Puerto Rico: (1) the struggle must be intersectional; (2) the criollo elite are a murderous class; (3) debt is death, protest is life; (4) protests are sites of pleasure; (5) la policía ≠ el pueblo; and (6) the diaspora must be a part of the struggle for Puerto Rico’s future.

Apr 7, 2022 04:30 PM in Pacific Time (US and Canada)