Conclusion

Abstract

Visual narratives matter; it matters who creates them, who receives them, and how they disrupt colonial logics to subtly or loudly demand a just world. The artworks discussed in this book as acts of visual disobedience reveal a complex history of colonial legacies, empire, and manifestations of violence, which have led to the mass displacement of Central Americans and the rise of asylum seekers at the US-Mexico border. The book also reveals a correlation between visual coloniality and the world's refugees, who are often the descendants of cultures targeted with colonial plunder. Visual disobedience is a project of intellectual autonomy and cultural sovereignty. Because this book is written from a geopolitical space and embodiment in the diaspora, incorporating the themes analyzed, and from within the institutions that perpetuate erasure, it is its own form of visual disobedience.