ABSTRACT
This article addresses practice of excluding Chicanx and Latinx persons from academia but places more attention on their entanglements with prisons and carceral communities.
We explore the outcasting of formerly incarcerated and system-impacted Chicanx and Latinx persons from social institutions. In an effort to draw out the links between abolition and exclusion, we share our stories of resilience, struggle, and resistance as formerly incarcerated scholars. Given our experiences inside both prison and academia, we advocate for an abolitionist perspective that rallies around the abolition of the prison industrial complex, the criminal (in)justice system, and global capitalism, which is inextricably bound to the rise of mass incarceration.
