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SUMMARY:Blackness in Mexico
DESCRIPTION:The Baton Foundation will host a lecture about the efforts underway in Mexico to recognize African-descendant Mexicans as a distinct cultural group. This program is free to the public\, but registration is required. \nAbout the Book\nThrough historical and ethnographic research\, Blackness in Mexico (University Press of Florida\, 2023)\, delves into the ongoing movement toward recognizing Black Mexicans as a cultural group within a nation that has long viewed the non-Black Mestizo as the archetypal citizen. Anthony Jerry focuses on this process in Mexico’s Costa Chica region in order to explore the relational aspects of citizenship and the place of Black people in how modern citizenship is imagined. \nJerry’s study of the Costa Chica shows the political stakes of the national project for Black recognition; the shared but competing interests of the Mexican government\, activists\, and townspeople; and the ways that the state and NGOs are working to make “Afro-Mexican” an official cultural category. He argues that the demand for recognition by Black communities calls attention to how the Mestizo has become an intuitive point of reference for identifying who qualifies as “other.” Jerry also demonstrates that while official recognition can potentially empower African descendants\, it can simultaneously reproduce the same logics of difference that have brought about their social and political exclusion. \nOne of few books to center Blackness within a discussion of Mexico or to incorporate a focus on Mexico into Black studies\, this book ultimately argues that the official project for recognition is itself a methodology of mestizaje\, an opportunity for the government to continue to use Blackness to define the national subject and to further the Mexican national project. PURCHASE BOOKS HERE. \nAbout the Author\nAnthony Russell Jerry is an assistant professor of Anthropology at the University of California\, Riverside. His research interests are Blackness\, citizenship\, subject-making\, and Black entrepreneurship in the “Americas.” Professor Jerry is the founder and director of the Cultural Media Archive and The Empathy Archive–online platforms designed to promote racial literacy and social and emotional learning through empathy and awareness. He holds a Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign\, an MA in applied anthropology from San Diego State University\, and an MBA from the Anderson Graduate School of Management at University of California\, Riverside. \nRegister Here for Zoom Lecture
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SUMMARY:The Rage of Innocence
DESCRIPTION:The Baton Foundation will host a lecture about the day-to-day brutalities endured by Black youth growing up under constant police surveillance and the persistent threat of physical and psychological abuse. This program is free to the public\, but registration is required.\nAbout the Book\nDrawing upon twenty-five years of experience representing young people in Washington\, D.C.’s juvenile courts\, Kristin Henning confronts America’s irrational and manufactured fears of Black youth and makes a compelling case that the nation’s obsession with policing and incarcerating Black America begins with Black children.\n\nUnlike White youth\, who are afforded the freedom to test boundaries and figure out who they are and who they want to be\, Black youth are seen as a threat to White America and denied the privilege of healthy adolescent development. Weaving together powerful narratives and persuasive data\, Henning examines the criminalization of Black adolescent play and sexuality\, the demonization of Black fashion\, hair\, and music\, and the discriminatory impact of police in schools.\n\nThe Rage of Innocence: How America Criminalizes Black Youth (Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group\, 2021)\, lays bare the long-term consequences of racism and trauma that Black children experience at the hands of police and their vigilante surrogates and explains how discriminatory and aggressive policing has socialized a generation of Black teenagers to fear and resent the police.\nAbout the Author\nKristin Henning is the Blume Professor of Law and Director of the Juvenile Justice Clinic and Initiative at Georgetown. Professor Henning has been representing children accused of crime for more than 26 years and was the lead attorney for the Juvenile Unit of the D.C. Public Defender Service. She is currently the Director of the Mid-Atlantic Region of the Gault Center.\n\nProfessor Henning worked closely with the McArthur Foundation’s Juvenile Indigent Defense Action Network to develop the Juvenile Training Immersion Program (JTIP)\, a national training curriculum for youth defenders\, and is the co-founder of several initiatives to combat racial inequities in the juvenile and criminal legal systems\, including the Ambassadors for Racial Justice program and a Racial Justice Toolkit for defenders. Professor Henning trains state actors across the country on the impact of racial bias in the courts and the traumatic effects of policing in communities of color.\n\nProfessor Henning writes extensively about race\, adolescence\, and policing\, and her book\, The Rage of Innocence\, was featured on the front page of The New York Times Book Review. She has served on the Board of Directors for the Center for Children’s Law and Policy\, was a Reporter for the ABA’s Juvenile Justice Standards Task Force and is an Advisor to ALI’s Restatement on Children and the Law project. In addition\, she has received many awards including a 2023 Embracing the Legacy Award from the RFK Community Alliance\, a 2022 Women of Distinction Award from the American Association of University Women\, the 2021 Juvenile Leadership Prize from the Juvenile Law Center\, and the Robert E. Shepherd\, Jr. Award for Excellence in Juvenile Defense by the Gault Center. Professor Henning earned her B.A. from Duke University\, her J.D. from Yale Law School\, and her LLM in Advocacy from Georgetown Law.\nRegister Here for Zoom Lecture
URL:https://thebatonfoundation.org/event/the-rage-of-innocence/
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