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On this #litreview, Yvette Borja and Ronnie, a Tucson mutual aid organizer, discuss "La Calle: Spatial Conflicts and Urban Renewal in a Southwest City" by Lydia Otero. They discuss how urban renewal is a euphemism for gentrification, break down how Tucson elites attempted to whiten the city's history, and emphasize the deep history of racial segregation of the city.
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Yvette Borja and guest Meghna Sridhar discuss Theft is Property! by Robert Nichols. They discuss how and why land can't be neatly divided as US property law suggests, the usefulness of understanding racism as long-standing patterns of group-differentiated vulnerability, and the links between the Black radical tradition and indigenous relationships with/stewardship of their lands.   
Read Robert Nichols' article prelude to Theft is Property! here: https://criticaltheory.northwestern.edu/mellon-project/critical-theory-in-the-global-south/sub_projects/theft-is-property,-nichols.pdf 
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Yvette Borja discusses "Black and Blur" by Fred Moten with art history PhD student Jasmine Magaña. They break down Fred Moten's focus on Blackness as "fugitivity," track the humanities' shift from a postcolonial to a decolonial framework, and share the importance of sitting with the "not in between."
Read "The Undercommons" by Fred Moten here: https://www.akpress.org/the-undercommons.html 
Read "Stolen Life" by Fred Moten here: https://www.dukeupress.edu/stolen-life
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Yvette Borja interviews Tucson mutual aid organizer Ronnie about Laura Gomez's book Inventing Latinos: A New Story of American Racism. They discuss the malleability of Latinx identity and the privileges that has afforded them in the U.S., share what the Latinx community can learn about the limitations of citizenship from the Black community, and break down the myth of mestizaje.
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Yvette Borja discusses "Family Abolition: Capitalism and the Communizing of Care" by M.E. O'Brien author, scholar, and preacher Dr. Courtney Bryant. They work through the connections between prison and police abolition and the capitalist nuclear family unit, note how communities of color have always operated outside of this nuclear family unit ideal, and imagine how familial and loving relationships would look different without coercion embedded within them. 
Order Courtney Bryant's book "Erotic Defiance, Womanism, and Resistance" here: https://www.fortresspress.com/store/product/9781506478692/Erotic-Defiance
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Yvette Borja and Adriana Obols, PhD student of modern art in Latin America, discuss the book "Paper Cadavers: The Archives of Dictatorship" by Kirsten Weld. They discuss how archival practices were central to post-war Guatemalan civil society's attempts to hold war criminals to account while also being indispensable to the nation-state's targeting and surveillance of leftists in the capital. 
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