Queer Placemaking · Gentrification · Chicanx/Latinx Studies · Affect · Urban Studies · Racial Capitalism · Art & Performance

Carrillo’s research examines how belonging is produced, contested, and transformed within barrio urban landscapes undergoing gentrification. His work is particularly interested in the cultural and affective dimensions of these transformations, asking how racialized and queer communities negotiate changing relationships to place, home, and community. Drawing on cultural texts and practices—including performance, visual art, muralism, television, and community-based cultural production—his research explores how aesthetics and affect shape the ways people make, claim, and contest urban space. His interdisciplinary work brings together Chicanx/Latinx Studies, queer of color critique, performance studies, and critical approaches to urbanism, gentrification, and racial capitalism.

Public talk by Vicente Carrillo, JWJI Visiting Fellow, at Emory University’s James Weldon Johnson Institute for the Study of Race & Difference.

• Carrillo, V. The riddle: Queer brown intimacies in the gentrifying barrio. Lat Stud22, 681–704 (2024).

• Carrillo, Vicente. "Pride Arrives to the Barrio: An Ethnographic Reflection of Boyle Height's Orgullo Fest." Latinx Talk, April 6, 2022.

• Vicente Carrillo, “To Tame a Wild Tongue: Art after Chicanismo,” CAA Reviews, 2020.