Dylan Rodríguez
Biographic Data
| ID | 3587361 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dylan Rodríguez |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dylan |
| FAMILY NAME | Rodríguez |
| SIGNATURE | RODRIGUEZ D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Riverside |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 107 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The Cambridge Companion to American Prison Writing and Mass Incarceration
This book tells the story of mass Incarceration in America through the writers who experienced it first-hand. It begins at mid-century with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X, whose insights about racism and the criminal justice system warned of what was to come. It takes off in the 1960s and 1970s with revolutionary writers like George Jackson, Assata Shakur, and Mumia Abu-Jamal, seeking liberation not just from prison but the oppressive s…
A Dying Liberalism (or, Gary Okihiro's Beast Mode)
We better get ready
On University Abolition
Introduction
The Counterinsurgency of the Stop Asian Hate Movement
Weaponized Study in a Moment of (Counter)Insurgency
Weaponized Study in a Moment of (Counter)Insurgency: The Gathering Anti-“American” of American Studies Dylan Rodríguez (bio) Peace to all of you on Indigenous Peoples Day. I am speaking to you from occupied Cahuilla and Tongva land in what is known as Southern California. My place of work is a few blocks from where the Riverside Police Department stole the life of Tyisha Miller in 1998. I ask that you accept this address as an encouragement to mo…
Context and Significance of Edmund T. Gordon's Racial Geography Tour
Context and Significance of Edmund T. Gordon's Racial Geography Tour Dylan Rodríguez (bio) Racial Geography Tour, racialgeographytour.org/ (accessed May 21, 2021) There could not be a more vital time to engage with Edmund T. Gordon's Racial Geography Tour, a critically curated and deeply researched online exhibit that offers itself to the visitor as "an interactive guided exploration of the historic origins of the University of Texas at Austin's …
White Supremacy
White supremacy is a global sociopolitical imagination and changing historical apparatus of human dominance. It is simultaneously an ideological, epistemological, cultural, institutional, militarized, and aesthetic structuring of power, (legitimated/state and illicit/state‐condoned) coercion, and social identity. Thus, an adequate definition of white supremacy must attempt to account for the totality of its influence on – and determination of – t…
The Political Logic of the Non-Profit Industrial Complex
Protective Measures
Protective Measures:Reflections on Robert Warrior's 2016 ASA Presidential Address Dylan Rodríguez (bio) bundok1 Through and between Robert Warrior's words there is a tension between isolation and the labor of community—here, the collective work of peoplehood, an activated imagination of life and creativity under conditions of long, normalized duress. I suspect that this is the echoing of a biographical substance that is far more historically exem…
Critical Ethnic Studies
The multicultural nation and the violence of liberal rights -- As though it were our own?: against a politics of identification / Shana L. Redmond -- Juan Crow: progressive mutations of the Black-White binary / John D. Marquez -- Can the line move? Antiblackness and a diasporic logic of forced social epidermalization / Joao H. Costa Vargas -- (Re)producing the nation: treaty rights, gay marriage, and the settler state / Lindsey Schneider -- Hatef…
Filipino Studies
After years of occupying a vexed position in the American academy, Philippine studies has come into its own, emerging as a trenchant and dynamic space of inquiry. Filipino Studies is a field-defining collection of vibrant voices, critical perspectives, and provocative ideas about the cultural, political, and economic state of the Philippines and its diaspora. Traversing issues of colonialism, neoliberalism, globalization, and nationalism, this vo…
Inhabiting the Impasse
This article examines the concept of genocide as an incomplete accounting of gendered racial and racial-colonial violence. The mid-twentieth-century enunciation of the genocide concept, in and beyond the 1948 UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, attempts a totalizing notion of an alleged extremity of modern power. I am concerned with how this Western humanist conception of massive fatality begins to induce, but…
Black Studies in Impasse
I embrace the invitation to participate in the conversation reinvigorated by this special issue of The Black Scholar in a manner encouraged by its editor, Alex Weheliye: that is, to offer a reflection on the "Boundaries of Black Studies" that emerges from a (that is, my) particular situated relationship to the field, and which therefore interprets the notion of "boundary" from within an extended experience as well as a structural position. As suc…
Goldwater's left hand
Post-racial discourse rests on the allegation of a particular undoing to which we must urgently attend. There is almost nothing empirically credible about this pseudo-historical narrative structure, yet as a (growing) field of knowledge production, the post-racial discursive regime is no less formidable and far-ranging. Perhaps most importantly, it has attempted to reconstitute (and has undeniably already altered) some of the operative truth assu…
"Beyond "Police Brutality
The events of November 18, 2011, at the University of California, Davis, catalyzed a national and international response, focused on the vulnerable bodies of young white people engaged in an act of civil disobedience. As this scene has become momentarily enshrined in the political narratives of the U.S. Left, it seems that the spectacle of UC Davis has been isolated from the historical context that has enabled it. Rather than stagnate in the disc…
"Racial/Colonial Genocide and the "Neoliberal Academy
This essay examines the problematic of genocide as it relates to contemporary racial formations and the institutional logics of the neoliberal university. It argues that the analytic of genocide, as currently deployed in critical race theory and ethnic studies, must be radically revised to account for the complex and contradictory ways in which racial violence is produced and reproduced under contemporary conditions of global capitalism. The essa…
De-provincialising police violence
On 18 November 2011, students at the University of California, Davis staged a protest as part of the Occupy movement. The reaction of the on-site police force was heavy-handed, and images of an officer pepper-spraying the faces of peacefully protesting college students provoked widespread criticism of the police's repression of non-violent dissent. However, this reaction, the author argues, betrays a deeper racism in the consciousness of the US L…
Multiculturalist White Supremacy and the Substructure of the Body
The dreadful genius of the “postracial”/“postracist” moment lies in the creative disruption of white bodily monopoly in the operative sites of US nation-building (racial empire) from the grass roots to the White House. The ascendancy of postapartheid and “postcivil rights”1 multiculturalisms marks the obsolescence of “classical” white supremacy as a model of oppression and socially ordering violence based primarily or even predominantly on the (r…
Suspended Apocalypse
The Disorientation of the Teaching Act
The Disorientation of the Teaching Act: Abolition as Pedagogical Position Dylan Rodríguez (bio) Prison Regime/the Disorientation of the Teaching Act The global U.S. prison regime has no precedent or peer and has become a primary condition of schooling, education, and pedagogy in every possible site. Aside from its sheer accumulation of captive bodies (more than 2.5 million, if one includes children, military captives, undocumented migrants, and t…
The Terms of Engagement
This essay attempts to contextualize and theoretically resituate the state and state-ordained violences of different modalities of 'warfare' have been rendered mundane, acceptable, and banal within the American 'domestic' social formation in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. More precisely, it attempts to bring analytical and theoretical attention to how the organized subjection of racially pathologized social subjects is essential to white…
American Globality and the U. S. Prison Regime
The Condition of Filipino Americanism
Suspended Apocalypse
"Racial/Colonial Genocide and the "Neoliberal Academy
This essay examines the problematic of genocide as it relates to contemporary racial formations and the institutional logics of the neoliberal university. It argues that the analytic of genocide, as currently deployed in critical race theory and ethnic studies, must be radically revised to account for the complex and contradictory ways in which racial violence is produced and reproduced under contemporary conditions of global capitalism. The essa…
"Beyond "Police Brutality
The events of November 18, 2011, at the University of California, Davis, catalyzed a national and international response, focused on the vulnerable bodies of young white people engaged in an act of civil disobedience. As this scene has become momentarily enshrined in the political narratives of the U.S. Left, it seems that the spectacle of UC Davis has been isolated from the historical context that has enabled it. Rather than stagnate in the disc…
Total Confinement
(Non)Scenes of Captivity
Research Article| October 01 2006 (Non)Scenes of Captivity: The Common Sense of Punishment and Death Dylan Rodríguez Dylan Rodríguez Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (2006) 2006 (96): 9–32. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-2006-002 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissio…
Inhabiting the Impasse
This article examines the concept of genocide as an incomplete accounting of gendered racial and racial-colonial violence. The mid-twentieth-century enunciation of the genocide concept, in and beyond the 1948 UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, attempts a totalizing notion of an alleged extremity of modern power. I am concerned with how this Western humanist conception of massive fatality begins to induce, but…
Black Studies in Impasse
I embrace the invitation to participate in the conversation reinvigorated by this special issue of The Black Scholar in a manner encouraged by its editor, Alex Weheliye: that is, to offer a reflection on the "Boundaries of Black Studies" that emerges from a (that is, my) particular situated relationship to the field, and which therefore interprets the notion of "boundary" from within an extended experience as well as a structural position. As suc…
The Terms of Engagement
This essay attempts to contextualize and theoretically resituate the state and state-ordained violences of different modalities of 'warfare' have been rendered mundane, acceptable, and banal within the American 'domestic' social formation in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. More precisely, it attempts to bring analytical and theoretical attention to how the organized subjection of racially pathologized social subjects is essential to white…
Asian-American Studies in the Age of the Prison Industrial Complex
Filipino Studies
After years of occupying a vexed position in the American academy, Philippine studies has come into its own, emerging as a trenchant and dynamic space of inquiry. Filipino Studies is a field-defining collection of vibrant voices, critical perspectives, and provocative ideas about the cultural, political, and economic state of the Philippines and its diaspora. Traversing issues of colonialism, neoliberalism, globalization, and nationalism, this vo…
Goldwater's left hand
Post-racial discourse rests on the allegation of a particular undoing to which we must urgently attend. There is almost nothing empirically credible about this pseudo-historical narrative structure, yet as a (growing) field of knowledge production, the post-racial discursive regime is no less formidable and far-ranging. Perhaps most importantly, it has attempted to reconstitute (and has undeniably already altered) some of the operative truth assu…
On University Abolition
Weaponized Study in a Moment of (Counter)Insurgency
Weaponized Study in a Moment of (Counter)Insurgency: The Gathering Anti-“American” of American Studies Dylan Rodríguez (bio) Peace to all of you on Indigenous Peoples Day. I am speaking to you from occupied Cahuilla and Tongva land in what is known as Southern California. My place of work is a few blocks from where the Riverside Police Department stole the life of Tyisha Miller in 1998. I ask that you accept this address as an encouragement to mo…
De-provincialising police violence
On 18 November 2011, students at the University of California, Davis staged a protest as part of the Occupy movement. The reaction of the on-site police force was heavy-handed, and images of an officer pepper-spraying the faces of peacefully protesting college students provoked widespread criticism of the police's repression of non-violent dissent. However, this reaction, the author argues, betrays a deeper racism in the consciousness of the US L…
American Globality and the U. S. Prison Regime
Introduction
Asian Americans
Steve Louie and Glenn Omatsu offer a thoughtful and deeply self-reflexive collection of autobiographical narratives, photo essays, interviews, and short historical essays on the emergence and political formation of the Asian American movement, thirty years after its genesis in the crucible of anti-imperialist, anti-war, and "Third World" liberation movements in and beyond the United States. Most importantly for the field of Asian American Studies…
Social Science Book Prize Awardee
Praxis and Imprisonment
Asian-American Studies in the Age of the Prison Industrial Complex
Total Confinement
(Non)Scenes of Captivity
Research Article| October 01 2006 (Non)Scenes of Captivity: The Common Sense of Punishment and Death Dylan Rodríguez Dylan Rodríguez Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (2006) 2006 (96): 9–32. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-2006-002 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissio…
Warfare in the American Homeland
The United States has more than two million people locked away in federal, state, and local prisons. Although most of the U.S. population is non-Hispanic and white, the vast majority of the incarcerated—and policed—is not. In this compelling collection, scholars, activists, and current and former prisoners examine the sensibilities that enable a penal democracy to thrive. Some pieces are new to this volume; others are classic critiques of U.S. st…
American Globality and the U. S. Prison Regime
The Condition of Filipino Americanism
The Disorientation of the Teaching Act
The Disorientation of the Teaching Act: Abolition as Pedagogical Position Dylan Rodríguez (bio) Prison Regime/the Disorientation of the Teaching Act The global U.S. prison regime has no precedent or peer and has become a primary condition of schooling, education, and pedagogy in every possible site. Aside from its sheer accumulation of captive bodies (more than 2.5 million, if one includes children, military captives, undocumented migrants, and t…
The Terms of Engagement
This essay attempts to contextualize and theoretically resituate the state and state-ordained violences of different modalities of 'warfare' have been rendered mundane, acceptable, and banal within the American 'domestic' social formation in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. More precisely, it attempts to bring analytical and theoretical attention to how the organized subjection of racially pathologized social subjects is essential to white…
Multiculturalist White Supremacy and the Substructure of the Body
The dreadful genius of the “postracial”/“postracist” moment lies in the creative disruption of white bodily monopoly in the operative sites of US nation-building (racial empire) from the grass roots to the White House. The ascendancy of postapartheid and “postcivil rights”1 multiculturalisms marks the obsolescence of “classical” white supremacy as a model of oppression and socially ordering violence based primarily or even predominantly on the (r…
Suspended Apocalypse
"Beyond "Police Brutality
The events of November 18, 2011, at the University of California, Davis, catalyzed a national and international response, focused on the vulnerable bodies of young white people engaged in an act of civil disobedience. As this scene has become momentarily enshrined in the political narratives of the U.S. Left, it seems that the spectacle of UC Davis has been isolated from the historical context that has enabled it. Rather than stagnate in the disc…
"Racial/Colonial Genocide and the "Neoliberal Academy
This essay examines the problematic of genocide as it relates to contemporary racial formations and the institutional logics of the neoliberal university. It argues that the analytic of genocide, as currently deployed in critical race theory and ethnic studies, must be radically revised to account for the complex and contradictory ways in which racial violence is produced and reproduced under contemporary conditions of global capitalism. The essa…
De-provincialising police violence
On 18 November 2011, students at the University of California, Davis staged a protest as part of the Occupy movement. The reaction of the on-site police force was heavy-handed, and images of an officer pepper-spraying the faces of peacefully protesting college students provoked widespread criticism of the police's repression of non-violent dissent. However, this reaction, the author argues, betrays a deeper racism in the consciousness of the US L…
Black Studies in Impasse
I embrace the invitation to participate in the conversation reinvigorated by this special issue of The Black Scholar in a manner encouraged by its editor, Alex Weheliye: that is, to offer a reflection on the "Boundaries of Black Studies" that emerges from a (that is, my) particular situated relationship to the field, and which therefore interprets the notion of "boundary" from within an extended experience as well as a structural position. As suc…
Goldwater's left hand
Post-racial discourse rests on the allegation of a particular undoing to which we must urgently attend. There is almost nothing empirically credible about this pseudo-historical narrative structure, yet as a (growing) field of knowledge production, the post-racial discursive regime is no less formidable and far-ranging. Perhaps most importantly, it has attempted to reconstitute (and has undeniably already altered) some of the operative truth assu…
Inhabiting the Impasse
This article examines the concept of genocide as an incomplete accounting of gendered racial and racial-colonial violence. The mid-twentieth-century enunciation of the genocide concept, in and beyond the 1948 UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, attempts a totalizing notion of an alleged extremity of modern power. I am concerned with how this Western humanist conception of massive fatality begins to induce, but…
Critical Ethnic Studies
The multicultural nation and the violence of liberal rights -- As though it were our own?: against a politics of identification / Shana L. Redmond -- Juan Crow: progressive mutations of the Black-White binary / John D. Marquez -- Can the line move? Antiblackness and a diasporic logic of forced social epidermalization / Joao H. Costa Vargas -- (Re)producing the nation: treaty rights, gay marriage, and the settler state / Lindsey Schneider -- Hatef…
Filipino Studies
After years of occupying a vexed position in the American academy, Philippine studies has come into its own, emerging as a trenchant and dynamic space of inquiry. Filipino Studies is a field-defining collection of vibrant voices, critical perspectives, and provocative ideas about the cultural, political, and economic state of the Philippines and its diaspora. Traversing issues of colonialism, neoliberalism, globalization, and nationalism, this vo…
White Supremacy
White supremacy is a global sociopolitical imagination and changing historical apparatus of human dominance. It is simultaneously an ideological, epistemological, cultural, institutional, militarized, and aesthetic structuring of power, (legitimated/state and illicit/state‐condoned) coercion, and social identity. Thus, an adequate definition of white supremacy must attempt to account for the totality of its influence on – and determination of – t…
The Political Logic of the Non-Profit Industrial Complex
Protective Measures
Protective Measures:Reflections on Robert Warrior's 2016 ASA Presidential Address Dylan Rodríguez (bio) bundok1 Through and between Robert Warrior's words there is a tension between isolation and the labor of community—here, the collective work of peoplehood, an activated imagination of life and creativity under conditions of long, normalized duress. I suspect that this is the echoing of a biographical substance that is far more historically exem…
Political science (24 works) · Sociology (23 works) · Law (19 works) · Race, History, and American Society (15 works) · Criminology (14 works) · Politics (11 works) · History (10 works) · Law (10 works) · Racism (10 works) · History (8 works)