Episode 147 of TBR Podcast is live now! Don’t miss Dr. Michael Lechuga discussing his book, "Visions of Invasion: Alien Affects, Cinema, and Citizenship in Settler Colonies."
Listen: https://shorturl.at/huCS6
Transcript: https://shorturl.at/pqz79
Keywords: indigenous methodologies, anti-colonial rhetorics, migration, cultural studies, settler colonialism
Dr. Michael Lechuga is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication & Journalism at the University of New Mexico. He researches and teaches Rhetoric, Migration, Settler Colonial Studies, and Cultural Studies. He explores how migrants from Mexico and Central America are subjected by the US’s austere migration control structures and political attitudes. His current research focuses on the role that technology plays in border security mechanisms, the ways colonial logics map race onto bodies, and the political possibilities for reestablishing our deep cultural connections land.
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