Looking Suspicious: The Racialization of Crime
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Graduate Center of The City University of New York
This panel will explore the ways in which crime, criminal justice, and its corresponding systems target AfroLatin@s while simultaneously rendering them invisible. While the disproportionate numbers of Black and Latino men and women in the criminal justice system has been well documented, statistics tend to treat them as discrete populations. We will call attention to the dearth of available data adequately documenting the AfroLatin@ experience, and explore how the failure to count both race and ethnicity serves to conceal racializing practices in policing, detention, judicial, and criminal justice processes. Our conversation will also consider how socioeconomic factors and heavy surveillance push Afrolatin@s into prisons in the first place.
Graduate Center of The City University of New York
This panel will explore the ways in which crime, criminal justice, and its corresponding systems target AfroLatin@s while simultaneously rendering them invisible. While the disproportionate numbers of Black and Latino men and women in the criminal justice system has been well documented, statistics tend to treat them as discrete populations. We will call attention to the dearth of available data adequately documenting the AfroLatin@ experience, and explore how the failure to count both race and ethnicity serves to conceal racializing practices in policing, detention, judicial, and criminal justice processes. Our conversation will also consider how socioeconomic factors and heavy surveillance push Afrolatin@s into prisons in the first place.
Luis Barrios is a Board Certified Forensic Examiner and a professor of Latina@ psychology and criminology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, and of psychology at the CUNY Graduate Center. He is co-author of The Almighty Latin King & Queen Nation: Street Politics and the Transformation of a New York City Gang; and co-editor of Otras naciones: Jóvenes, Transnacionalismo y Exclusión and Gangs and Society: Alternative Perspective. An Episcopalian priest, Luis is a former prisoner of conscience from the School of the Americas Watch (SOAW) movement and Co- Executive Director of the Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization (IFCO) and Pastors for Peace.
Carmen Perez is the Executive Director of The Gathering for Justice, a social justice organization dedicated to building a national movement to end child incarceration while addressing social unrest through the use of nonviolent direct action. Carmen travels across the nation and internationally promoting peace, interconnectedness and alternatives to incarceration and violence, while collaborating in national policy presentations. She has organized cultural, spiritual and educational events, and provides support to individuals incarcerated in juvenile halls and inside prisons. She has been the recipient of numerous awards and honors for her work in the fields of juvenile justice, gender responsive programming, mentorship and prison reform.
Edward-Yemíl (Eddie) Rosario is Associate Director for the Correctional Association’s Prison Visiting Project (PVP). He has worked in various capacities over the past 20 years to bring about social change within historically marginalized communities, including 10 years as project director of “Developing Justice,” a community-based reentry program. He holds a BS degree in Applied Psychology from New York University and attended graduate school at Columbia University’s School of Social Work. Eddie’s own experiences as a formerly incarcerated person have contributed to his passion for systemic change and advocacy of social policies that create opportunities for those seeking to move their lives in a positive direction.
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Daniel ‘Nane’ Alejandrez is the founder and Executive Director of Santa Cruz Barrios Unidos and chairman of the National Coalition of Barrios Unidos, a national organization with chapters in more than 30 cities around the country, which addresses issues of youth violence in the U.S. He is also the coordinator for the Warrior’s Circle Rights of Passage for Youth. His work combines analysis of the root causes of crime and violence with concrete programs that offer youth positive alternatives. Nane is the recipient of numerous honors, including the National Fellowship of Reconciliation, the Martin Luther King Jr. Award, and the SANKOFA Lifetime Achievement Award.
Ulpiano Sergio Reyes, better known as Mellow Man Ace, and also known as Lord Sha'mel Allah, is an American rapper. He is best known for his hit single "Mentirosa." He is the younger brother of Sen Dog from the acclaimed rap group Cypress Hill. Over the past three years Mellow Man Ace has performed and lectured to incarcerated youth and adults via the Jail Guitar Doors program, and Camp Miller for jailed youth in Malibu, California. As a former street gang member himself, Mellow Man Ace was an affiliate of the 89th St Family Swans Gang in South Central Los Angeles from 1984 through 1988.
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