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Latino Studies
Interviews with scholars of Latinx Studies about their new books.
May 7, 2024
Knowing Silence
Learning from children about citizenship status and how it shapes their schooling. There is a persistent assumption in the field of education that c…
May 6, 2024
Mexican Exodus
In Mexican Exodus: Emigrants, Exiles, and Refugees of the Cristero War (Oxford University Press, 2019), Julia G. Young reframes the Cristero War as a …
April 21, 2024
Code Work
In Code Work: Hacking Across the US/México Techno-Borderlands (Princeton UP, 2023), Héctor Beltrán examines Mexican and Latinx coders’ personal strate…
April 19, 2024
Elena, Princesa of the Periphery
In the summer of 2016, Disney introduced its first Latina princess, Elena of Avalor. Elena, Princess of the Periphery: Disney’s Flexible Latina Girl (…
April 18, 2024
The Things We Didn't Know
Today’s book is: The Things We Didn’t Know (Gallery Books, 2024), by Dr. Elba Iris Pérez. A cross-cultural coming-of-age story, The Things We Didn’t K…
April 17, 2024
Strictly Dynamite
Before Salma Hayek, Eva Longoria, and Penelope Cruz, there was Lupe Velez―one of the first Latin-American stars to sweep past the xenophobia of old Ho…
March 22, 2024
Roberto Alomar
Roberto Alomar was not just a five-tool Hall of Famer; he was a magician on the diamond, a generational talent whose defensive wizardry left teammates…
February 29, 2024
Dreamland
In a world of border walls and obstacles to migration, a lottery where winners can gain permanent residency in the United States sounds too good to be…
February 21, 2024
Sito
In September of 2019, Luis Alberto Quiñonez—known as Sito— was shot to death as he sat in his car in the Mission District of San Francisco. He was nin…
February 17, 2024
Puerto Rican Chicago
The postwar migration of Puerto Rican men and women to Chicago brought thousands of their children into city schools. These children's classroom exper…
February 14, 2024
Policing Life and Death
Marisol LeBrón’s new book, Policing Life and Death: Race, Violence, and Resistance in Puerto Rico (University of California Press, 2019), examines the…
February 9, 2024
A Kiss Across the Ocean
In A Kiss Across the Ocean: Transatlantic Intimacies of British Post-Punk and US Latinidad (Duke UP, 2022), Richard T. Rodríguez examines the relation…
February 3, 2024
The Grapes of Conquest
California’s wine country conjures images of pastoral vineyards and cellars lined with oak barrels. As a mainstay of the state’s economy, California w…
January 17, 2024
Beyond Norma Rae
In the late 1970s, Hollywood producers took the published biography of Crystal Lee Sutton, a white southern textile worker, and transformed it into a …
December 21, 2023
The Afro-Latino Memoir
Despite their literary and cultural significance, Afro-Latino memoirs have been marginalized in both Latino and African American studies. Trent Masiki…
November 12, 2023
Making the Latino South
The presence of Latinx people in the American South has long confounded the region's persistent racial binaries. In Making the Latino South: A History…
October 29, 2023
Urban Specters
Racial capitalism, invisible but threaded throughout the world, shapes our lives. Focusing on the experiences of white, Black, and Latinx residents o…
October 27, 2023
Crossing Waters
Debates over the undocumented migration of Latin Americans invariably focus on the southern US border, but most migrants never cross that arbitrary li…
October 15, 2023
Cuba and Puerto Rico
Carmen Haydée Rivera and Jorge Duany's edited volume Cuba and Puerto Rico: Transdisciplinary Approaches to History, Literature, and Culture (U Florida…
October 13, 2023
The House on G Street
In The House on G Street: A Cuban Family Saga (NYU Press, 2023), award-winning author Lisandro Pérez tells Cuba’s story through the lens of a single f…