Christina Heatherton speaks with Justin Akers Chacón about class, deportation, and capitalist political economy. This episode is dedicated to the memory of the late great Mike Davis.

Conjuncture is a web series and podcast curated and co-produced by Jordan T. Camp and Christina Heatherton with support from the Trinity Social Justice Institute. It features interviews with activists, artists, scholars, and public intellectuals. Taking its title from Antonio Gramsci and Stuart Hall’s conceptualizations, it highlights struggles over the meaning and memory of particular historical moments and geographical contexts.

Justin Akers Chacón is an activist, unionist, historian, and Professor of Chicana/o Studies at San Diego City College. He is the author of The Border Crossed Us: The Case for Opening the US-Mexico Border (Haymarket, 2021); Radicals in the Barrio: Magonistas, Socialists, Wobblies, and Communists in the Mexican-American Working Class (Haymarket 2018); and (with Mike Davis) No One is Illegal (Haymarket Books, 2006).

Christina Heatherton is an Associate Professor of American Studies and Everett and Joanne Elting Associate Professor for Human Rights and Global Citizenship, founding Co-Director of the Trinity Social Justice Institute, and the co-host and co-producer of Conjuncture.