Andrea del Carmen is an anthropologist of education and critical scholar of race at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her ethnography locates the everyday mechanisms of racial capitalism and anti-blackness in space and place, as they shape the lives of radicalized youth in rural Mexican/Chicanx Californian communities. Andrea’s work has been recognized by the journal Curriculum Inquiry, The Latinx Project at NYU, and by the Council of Anthropology in Education. You can read and download her work at academia.com


Current Academic Position:
Doctoral Student
University of California, Santa Cruz

Departments:
Education
Critical Race and Ethnic Studies

Projects:
Black Radical University? Podcast
The CAE Podcast
Black Geographies Lab

Teviston mother and children pause from doing laundry on front porch. October 1964. Photograph and copyright by Ernest Lowe