Visiting Scholars Program Lecture Series: Rock Throwing, State Violence, and the Question of Resistance

Karma Chavez is Bobby & Sherri Patton Professor of Mexican American & Latina/o Studies and Chair, Mexican American & Latina/o Studies. Their scholarship is primarily informed by queer of color theory & women of color feminism. Their work emphasizes the rhetorical practices of groups marginalized within existing power structures, but they also attend to rhetoric produced by powerful institutions & actors about marginalized folks & the systems that oppress them (e.g., immigration system, prisons).