Citizens and Felons Race, Immigration, and Felony Disenfranchisement

Roberto Hernández

Roberto D. Hernández was born in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico but raised in San Ysidro, California, just a short ten blocks from the U-S///Mexico border with Tijuana. Hernández is currently a Visiting Researcher at the Center for Black Studies Research at UC Santa Barbara and Doctoral Candidate in the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, where he is completing a dissertation examining the multiple manifestations of violence on the U-S///Mexico border in the context of nationalisms, coloniality and the modern/colonial world-system. Hernández was previously a Visiting Researcher in the Chicano Studies Institute (formerly known as the Center for Chicano Studies) at UC Santa Barbara, as well as a Graduate Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Social Change at UC Berkeley. His research focuses on U-S///Mexico border cities and the attendant social and political lived experiences (immigration, trade, smuggling, etc), social and antisystemic movements, epistemologies of resistance produced because of, against and despite nation-state borders, as well as the multiple and often competing tendencies of radical political thought and practices throughout the non-Western world from the 1930's to the present (cultural, revolutionary, and regressive nationalisms, Marxisms, feminisms, indigenismo, etc.)