Armed & Angry: Fascism on the Borderlands | Johanna Fernández

The Jackson Chair presents Dr. Johanna Fernández, who will provide a lecture titled Armed & Angry: Fascism on the Borderlands.  

The lecture will be held on October 10th, 2024, in Armstrong Browning Library, 710 Speight Ave. Waco, Texas 76706, in the Treasure Room from 3:30 - 5:00 pm. 

Dr. Johanna Fernández will discuss how Latinos are at the center of a battle in the public square about who we are and what our relationship is to the nation. Risking senseless violence against some of the oldest residents of the territory we now call the United States, Nativist leaders have cast Latinos as an existential threat to the nation, one that must be controlled and contained. Bound up in the politics of immigration and the American southern border, Latinos are now a battle ax in the ideological offensive of Nativist forces. This talk addresses the historical roots, contemporary dimensions, and grave dangers for democracy of anti-Latino violence in the United States.