Center for "Race," Culture and Social Justice
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Assistant Professorof RomanceLanguages and Literatures Hofstra University. . ' . .• ~· ,-
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Monday, December 3, 2018 2:55-4 :20 p.m. Leo A . Guthart Cultural Center Theater Axinn Library, First Floor, South Campus If we hope to see reform in the imm igra tion system that entails a dismantling of its connection to the industr ial prison complex - and the systematic, highly lucrative confinement of bodies, the majority of them Black and Brown - it is cruc ial that we research, document, and denounce the normalized, day-to day forms of institutiona l violence against the undocumented community_ This talk, given by Professor Valeria Luiselli and students in the course Black and Brown Confinement, seeks to inform students at Hofstra as we ll as the larger community about the connections between the so-called immigrat ion crisis and the rapid ly growing indust rial prison complex. ABOUT THE SPEAKER Valeria Luiselli is a novelistand nonfictionwriter;She is the authorof Faces,'n the Oowd, Sidewalks,The Sto,y of My Teeth, TellMe How It Ends, and the IO<thcomingLost Children Archive.Twicenominated for both the Kiri<us Prizeand the NBCCAward,she is a two-time
winner of a LosAngeles Times Book Prize, and a recipient of the National Book Foundation 5 Under35 award and the BearingWnness Fellowship from the Art for Justice Fund. Her work has appeared in The New Yorknmes, Granra,and McSweeneysOuarterlyConcem, among other publications,and has been translated into more than 20 languages_
This lecture is part of a project spo nsored by t he Center for "Race," Culture and Social Just ice's Faculty Summer Research Grant 2018.
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