Aftershocks of Disaster: Puerto Rico Before and After the Storm

About

Yarimar Bonilla is a political anthropologist specializing in questions of sovereignty citizenship and race across the Americas. She has tracked these issues across a broad range of sites and practices including: postcolonial politics in the French Caribbean the role of digital protest in the Black Lives Matter movement the politics of the Trump presidency the Puerto Rican statehood movement and her current research for which she was named a 2018 Carnegie Fellow on the political economic and social aftermath of hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico. Marisol LeBrón is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research and teaching focus on social inequality policing violence and protest. She is the author of Policing Life and Death: Race Violence and Resistance in Puerto Rico which examines the growth of punitive governance in contemporary Puerto Rico.