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This presentation will explore the theoretical and historiographic contributions of ethnic studies in problematizing the in/capacitations and disablements central to the project of colonial racial capitalism. This will be accomplished through an analysis of the philosophical and affective dynamics of racial misrecognition as a precondition for political coalition, explored in Sony Coráñez Bolton's forthcoming book Dos X: Disability and Racial Dysphoria in Latinx and Filipinx American Cultures (Texas UP).
Speaker: Sony Coráñez Bolton, Associate Professor of English & Spanish and chair of Latinx and Latin American Studies, Amherst College.
Moderated by Jorge Sánchez Cruz, Lecturer on History and Literature, Harvard University.
Sony Coráñez Bolton is associate professor of English & Spanish and chair of Latinx and Latin American Studies at Amherst College. He is the author of Crip Colony: Mestizaje, US Imperialism, and the Queer Politics of Disability in the Philippines (Duke 2023). It demonstrates the ways that colonialism and disability are part of a unified ideological structure in Philippine mestizo politics. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Critical Ethnic Studies, Journal of Asian American Studies, Periphêrica, and Verge: Studies in Global Asias. He is currently finishing a second book project entitled Dos X (University of Texas Press) which concerns the intersections of Latinx and Filipinx culture, disability, history, and politics. It argues that racial misrecognition is an epistemology unto itself that helps to diagnose the ableist dimensions of racial capitalism.
Jorge Sánchez Cruz is a scholar of race, gender, and sexuality in Latin American, Latinx, and Caribbean literatures and cultures, particularly in how the afterlives of slavery and colonization condition minority populations. His work centers queer, trans*, indigenous, and undocumented theories and aesthetics. Previously, he was a visiting assistant professor of Spanish in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures. Before Harvard, he was a ACLS postdoctoral researcher in gender, sexuality, and women’s studies at the University of Pennsylvania.
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