This talk is focused on the garnered insights from a two-year ethnographic project rooted in a community-based youth reentry program in the San Francisco Bay Area. Cabral will showcase the distinctive landscapes of worldbuilding efforts by Latine formerly incarcerated youth after they are released from juvenile hall and participate in reentry rituals that carve out various possibilities for helping them improve their life, social, and educational conditions. Simultaneously, their articulated improved selves are hindered by racialized ideologies and legal structures that deny, negate, or disregard youth’s efforts, leading to a sociological phenomenon of unruly outlawed envisioning that requires us to take notice. Cabral will further connect these insights with contemporary confrontations between Latinidad, carcerality, and anti-immigrant discourses continually rampant across racially minoritized communities in the United States.
