Writer, scholar, and thinker, of borders, their people, and mobile subjects; socially awkward anthropologist; novel-writing; taco expert; Chair of UIUC LLS.
Champaign and El Paso
Joined June 2023
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Just to clarify, undertaking research involves READING books and articles, not simply turning to ai or google.
Gilberto Rosas retweeted
Given the renewed demonization of migrants and asylum seekers by the new administration, I remind you of my book on the mass shooting in El Paso, family separation, and resistance
Gilberto Rosas retweeted
The Onion, like two weeks ago
ALT Judge Gives Trump Administration 3 Days To Return Her From El Salvador Prison
Given the renewed demonization of migrants and asylum seekers by the new administration, I remind you of my book on the mass shooting in El Paso, family separation, and resistance
Gilberto Rosas retweeted
This is so brilliant. The literacy rate
in Pal❤️💚🖤 is 97.8%. The literacy rate in the U.S. is 79% (generously).
LITERACY is the difference between a population fighting for their liberation vs. a population subjecting themselves to fas ci sm
Gilberto Rosas retweeted
Congrats to our 2024 AES Senior Book Prize Honorable Mention! 🎉🎉🎉
Unsettling: The El Paso Massacre, Resurgent White Nationalism, and the US-Mexico Border, by Gilberto Rosas @edgesgr
You can read the prize committee's summary here:
americanethnologist.org/awar…
Gilberto Rosas retweeted
"It is Nelson, not the AAUP, who has politicized the question of #academicfreedom by objecting to its extension to faculty &students who, for principled reasons, might support academic boycotts in the name of those systematically denied it."
- Joan Scott
chronicle.com/article/the-aa…
Gilberto Rosas retweeted
@JDVance1 at the National Conservatism Conference:
"The professors are the enemy."
#NatCon
Gilberto Rosas retweeted
It's really wild how politicians are taking off with a whole theory and motive to a crime when even Toronto police are like "hold your horses there bruh"
In 2022, two kids were stabbed at a local school and not one politician said a thing. But those kids were Muslim, so yeah. 🤷🏽♀️
Gilberto Rosas retweeted
More people were killed by US Customs and Border Patrol in 2022 than died at the Berlin Wall in its entire 28-year existence.
Here’s my latest publication
@AmericanAnthro @Latinx_Studies @UIUCAnthro @elpasomatters @JHUPress
@HBorderlands @jennrnajera @Korazao
On the Edges of Fascism and Other Unsettling Possibilities publicbooks.org/on-the-edges… via @publicbooks
On #Trump’s latest dehumanizing rhetoric, and the “new Lloronx,” see
press.jhu.edu/books/title/12…
#ElPasomatters
#LatinxStudies
#AmericanStudies
#Alla
#BorderStudies
#BorderNews
@JHUPress @HBorderlands
