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“Anti-Asian Violence” in Conditions of (U.S.) Domestic Warfare: Toward an Abolitionist Rethinking of Coalition, Intersection, and Justice

Dylan Rodríguez is a teacher, writer, and scholarly activist. He was named to the inaugural class of Freedom Scholars in 2020 and recently served as President of the American Studies Association (2020-2021).  He has worked as a Professor at the University of California, Riverside since 2001, and was the faculty-elected Chair of the UCR Division of the Academic Senate (2016-2020). Prior to his Senate leadership, he was the Chair of the Department of Ethnic Studies (2009-2016). Dylan’s work addresses the normalized proliferation of oppressive violence in everyday state, cultural, and social formations.  He conceptualizes abolitionist and other forms of movement as part of the historical, collective genius of rebellion, survival, and radical futurity. He is the author of three books, most recently White Reconstruction: Domestic Warfare and the Logic of Racial Genocide (Fordham University Press, 2021), and is co-editor of Critical Ethnic Studies: A Reader (Duke University Press, 2016).  Dylan can be reached by email at dylanrodriguez73@gmail.com as well as on Twitter (@dylanrodriguez), Instagram (dylanrodriguez73), and Facebook (www.facebook.com/dylanrodriguez73).