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Director, Race & Ethnic Studies Institute

# overview
Darrel Wanzer-Serrano is Director of the Race & Ethnic Studies Institute at Texas A&M University. He is also Associate Professor in the Department of Communication & Journalism and Core Faculty of Latino/a & Mexican American Studies. Trained in critical/cultural approaches to rhetorical studies, he was the first to bring Latinx/Latin American decolonial theory and methods to his home field of communication. Currently, Wanzer-Serrano is conducting critical interpretive research related to the discourse of emerging Hispanic-Serving Institutions as co-PI of the EVOLVE HSIs study. He is also PI of the Mellon Foundation-funded LatinTX initiative (2024-2029) on critical Latinx environmental justice.

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Indiana University Bloomington - (Bloomington, Indiana, United States)

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Communication and Culture, minor in Political Science

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Indiana University Bloomington - (Bloomington, Indiana, United States)

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University of Puget Sound - (Tacoma, Washington, United States)

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Critical/Cultural Studies Division Book of the Year

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Tropicalizing East Harlem: Rhetorical Agency, Cultural Citizenship, and Nuyorican Cultural Production

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Against canon: engaging the imperative of race in rhetoric

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Against War: Views from the Underside of Modernity

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Barack Obama, the Tea Party, and the Threat of Race: On Racial Neoliberalism and Born Again Racism

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Trashing the system: Social movement, intersectional rhetoric, and collective agency in the Young Lords Organization's garbage offensive

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Decolonial Rhetoric and a Future Yet-to-Become: A Loving Response

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The Rhetoric of Americanity in the Age of Empire: The Foraker Act and Albert Jeremiah Beveridge's Government for Porto Rico

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Gender Politics, Democratic Demand and Anti-Essentialism in the New York Young Lords

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Decolonizing Imaginaries: Rethinking "the People" in the Young Lords' Church Offensive

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Race, Coloniality, and Geo-Body Politics: The Garden as Latin@ Vernacular Discourse

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Pluriversality in the Histories of Rhetorics

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The Young Lords Organization in Chicago: A Short History

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The Futures of Latina/o/x Communication Studies: A Platica with Senior Scholars

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Rhetoric?s "Distinguished" pitfalls: A platica

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Crafting Servingness at Three Public Emerging Hispanic-Serving Institutions in Texas

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The New York Young Lords and the Struggle for Liberation

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A RADICAL DEMOCRATIC STYLE? TRADITION, HYBRIDITY, AND INTERSECTIONALITY

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Imagining Latinidades: Articulations of National Belonging

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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation - (New York, New York, United States)

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LatinTX: Place, Race, and Latinx Critical Environmental Justice in Texas

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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation - (New York, New York, United States)