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Right now, I’m working on a proposal for a new book. Based on my dissertation, the book Fear in the Desert: Policing Latinx and Indigenous People in the Arizona-Mexico Borderlands, 1964 to the Present<\/em>, will explore <\/span>the history of police violence in late twentieth-century Arizona. Latinx and Indigenous carceral history has been severely understudied by scholars. While historians have thoroughly examined mass incarceration and militarized policing in urban Black communities and Latinx communities in Texas and California, the past decade—including the conviction and presidential pardon of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio—reminds us that Southwestern Latinx and Indigenous historical actors are often neglected in carceral literature. The roots of carceral structures in the Southwest still need to be excavated. My project will also connect the experiences of Latinx borderlanders with those of transnational Indigenous nations like the Tohono O’odham in Arizona.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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