Interdisciplinary Social Scientist
Currently researching men's mental health at the intersection of race, masculinity, and carceral governance.
Dr. Albert de la Tierra
A servant leader for vision-driven individuals and organizations.
A critical sociologist by training, his research illuminates the connections between lived experience and structures of power.
An abolitionist educator by craft, he empowers the next generation of diverse leaders to imagine and create a more just world.
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Abridged Curriculum Vitae
Sample of Publications
- Racialized Surveillance and the Policing of Black Bodies in White Space, in Contemporary Sociology, 53(2): 108-112.
- Settler Colonial Governance and the Impossibility of a "Good Cop", in Justice and Legitimacy in Policing: Transforming the Institution. Miltonette Olivia Craig and Kwan-Lamar Blount-Hill, eds. London: Routledge.
- Carceral Calisthenics: (Body) Building a Resilient Self and Transformative Reentry Movement, in Prisoner Reentry in the 21st Century: Critical Perspectives of Returning Home. Keesha M. Middlemass and CalvinJohn Smiley, eds. London: Routledge.
- Denouncing Racist State Violence: "Fuck the Police!" as Parrhesiastic Exclamation. Critical Issues in Justice and Politics, 11(1): 28-40.
- Southern Theory (with Kathryn Henne), in The Routledge Companion to Criminological Theory and Concepts. Avi Brisman, Eamonn Carrabine and Nigel South, eds. London: Routledge.
- Essentializing Manhood in "the Streets": Perilous Masculinity and Popular Criminological Ethnographies. Feminist Criminology, 11(4): 375-397.
Areas of Expertise
- Critical Criminology
- Qualitative Methodologies
- Pedagogies of Liberation
- Sociological Theory
- Critical Masculinities Studies
- Physical Cultural Studies
Sample of Courses Taught
- CJ 200: Construction of Crime and Justice
- CJ 300: Criminal Justice: A Cross-Disciplinary Perspective
- CJ 452: Criminological Theory
- CJ 600: Youth Gangs in Community Context
- SOC 101: Introduction to Sociology
- SOC 314: Theories of Social Order
- SOC 328: Qualitative Research Methods
- SOC 3251F: Gender and Masculinities
Manuscript In Development
Code of the Street Workout: Black Masculinity in a Mass Incarcerated Community
How do racialized men who reside in structurally marginalized locales that are putatively regarded as “the hood” navigate and manage their social conditions? This work sheds light on this question by treating “street workout,” a physical culture centered around calisthenics exercises performed in public space, as an empirical site for generating a situated understanding of how some Black men assert themselves in social space at the same time that they are asserted upon by social forces. Taking an ethico-onto-epistem-ological stance that refuses the colonial gaze (a ubiquitously employed optic that dehumanizes racialized people), this work asks: (1) What embodied practices does street workout consist of, and how do they develop out of particular carceral ways of life? (2) What meanings and ideologies are attached to street workout, and how are these connections made? (3) What subjectivities emerge from street workout, and how do those subjectivities then shape how street workout is practiced? Six years of ethnographic data are drawn from to show how some residents of a mass incarcerated community (i.e. the hood) use street workout as (1) a site of resilience, (2) a space for rebutting racist imaginaries and (3) a place for constructing a masculine self. In a sentence, this is a critical ethnography of street workout in the hood.
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