New Books in Latino Studies
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Ken Chitwood, "BorĂ­cua Muslims: Everyday Cosmopolitanism Among Puerto Rican Converts to Islam" (U Texas Press, 2025)
69 hours 53 mins; March 23, 2026
Anne W. Johnson, "Mexico in Space: From La Raza CĂłsmica to the Space Race" (U Arizona Press, 2026)
52 mins; March 12, 2026
Pablo Zavala, "Forging a Mexican People: Collective Subjectivities in Postrevolutionary Print Culture, 1917-1968" (U Arizona Press, 2026)
65 hours 9 mins; March 10, 2026
Nicole E. Trujillo-Pagán, "Detroit Never Left: Black Space, White Borders, Latino Crossings" (NYU Press, 2025)
39 mins; March 03, 2026
Cecilia Márquez, "Making the Latino South: A History of Racial Formation" (UNC Press, 2023)
48 mins; February 22, 2026
Brian D. Behnken, "Brown and Blue: Mexican Americans, Law Enforcement, and Civil Rights in the Southwest, 1935-2025" (UNC Press, 2025)
59 mins; January 21, 2026
Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado, "Taco" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
36 mins; January 19, 2026
Zeke Hernandez, "The Truth About Immigration: Why Successful Societies Welcome Newcomers" (St. Martin's Press, 2024)
60 hours 2 mins; January 16, 2026
Irvin IbargĂĽen, "Caught in the Current: Mexico's Struggle to Regulate Emigration, 1940-1980" (UNC Press, 2025)
53 mins; December 21, 2025
Leo R. Chavez, "The Latino Threat: How Alarmist Rhetoric Misrepresents Immigrants, Citizens, and the Nation" (Stanford UP, 2025)
73 hours 42 mins; December 20, 2025
Mariana Ortega, "Carnalities: The Art of Living in Latinidad" (Duke UP, 2024)
76 hours 41 mins; December 16, 2025
Andrea Flores, "The Succeeders: How Immigrant Youth Are Transforming What It Means to Belong in America" (UC Press, 2021)
67 hours 49 mins; December 08, 2025
Theresa Delgadillo, "Geographies of Relation: Diasporas and Borderlands in the Americas" (U Michigan Press, 2024)
55 mins; December 02, 2025
Ana Patricia RodrĂ­guez, "Avocado Dreams: Remaking Salvadoran Life and Art in the Washington, D.C. Metro Area" (University of Arizona Press, 2025)
33 mins; November 20, 2025
Disco's Revenge
59 mins; October 28, 2025
Ada Ferrer, "Cuba: An American History" (Scribner, 2021)
53 mins; October 19, 2025
Vanessa Fonseca-Chávez and Anita Huízar-Hernández eds., "meXicana Roots and Routes: Listening to People, Places, and Pasts" (U Arizona Press, 2025)
22 mins; September 30, 2025
Philis Barragán-Goetz, "Reading, Writing, and Revolution: Escuelitas and the Emergence of a Mexican American Identity in Texas" (U Texas Press, 2020)
52 mins; August 28, 2025
Vanessa Diaz, "Manufacturing Celebrity: Latino Paparazzi and Women Reporters in Hollywood" (Duke UP, 2020)
50 mins; August 26, 2025
Disco's "Latin Tinge"
61 hours 2 mins; August 19, 2025
Darren W. Davis and David C. Wilson, "Racial Resentment in the Political Mind" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
55 mins; August 18, 2025
Teacher by Teacher: The People Who Change Our Lives
51 mins; August 07, 2025
Benjamin Francis-Fallon, "The Rise of the Latino Vote: A History" (Harvard UP, 2019)
53 mins; August 04, 2025
Joseph O. Jewell, "White Man’s Work: Race and Middle-Class Mobility into the Progressive Era" (UNC Press, 2023)
40 mins; July 25, 2025
Jennifer R. Nájera, "Learning to Lead: Undocumented Students Mobilizing Education" (Duke UP, 2024)
72 hours 15 mins; June 27, 2025
How Schools Make Race: Teaching Latinx Racialization in America
43 mins; June 26, 2025
Nolan L. Cabrera and Robert S. Chang, "Banned: The Fight for Mexican American Studies in the Streets and in the Courts" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
33 mins; May 07, 2025
Engage and Evade in 2025: Asad L. Asad on Latino Immigrants in America
51 mins; April 12, 2025
Tiffany D. Joseph, "Not All In: Race, Immigration, and Health Care Exclusion in the Age of Obamacare" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2025)
66 hours 4 mins; April 02, 2025
Lina-Maria Murillo, "Fighting for Control: Power, Reproductive Care, and Race in the US-Mexico Borderlands" (UNC Press, 2025)
68 hours 27 mins; March 09, 2025
Ilan Stavans, "Latino USA: A Cartoon History" (Basic Books, 2024)
91 hours 14 mins; February 22, 2025
Lori A. Flores, "Awaiting Their Feast: Latinx Food Workers and Activism from World War II to Covid-19" (UNC Press, 2025)
76 hours 45 mins; February 18, 2025
MartĂ­n Alberto Gonzalez, "Why You Always So Political?: The Experiences and Resiliencies of Mexican/Mexican American/Xicanx Students in Higher Education" (Viva Oxnard, 2023)
75 hours 3 mins; February 08, 2025
Andrew Gomez, "Constructing Cuban America: Race and Identity in Florida's Caribbean South, 1868–1945" (U Texas Press, 2024)
44 mins; January 13, 2025
Mike Madrid, "The Latino Century: How America's Largest Minority Is Transforming Democracy" (Simon and Schuster, 2024)
64 hours 56 mins; December 30, 2024
Oliver Rosales, "Civil Rights in Bakersfield: Segregation and Multiracial Activism in the Central Valley" (U Texas Press, 2024)
67 hours 45 mins; December 14, 2024
Aisha M Beliso-de JesĂşs, "Excited Delirium: Race, Police Violence, and the Invention of a Disease" (Duke UP, 2024)
54 mins; December 10, 2024
Matthew Gardner Kelly, "Dividing the Public: School Finance and the Creation of Structural Inequity" (Cornell UP, 2024)
77 hours 14 mins; December 04, 2024
Laura C. Chávez-Moreno, "How Schools Make Race: Teaching Latinx Racialization in America" (Harvard Education Press, 2024)
39 mins; December 03, 2024
Maria Angela Diaz, "A Continuous State of War: Empire Building and Race Making in the Civil War–Era Gulf South" (U Georgia Press, 2024)
49 mins; November 30, 2024
Disabled Ecologies: Lessons From a Wounded Desert
67 hours 9 mins; November 27, 2024
Without Parents or Papers: A Discussion with Stephanie L. Canizales
43 mins; November 21, 2024
Christopher Bell, "Walking East Harlem: A Neighborhood Experience" (Rutgers UP, 2024)
35 mins; November 20, 2024
Domingo Morel, "Developing Scholars: Race, Politics, and the Pursuit of Higher Education" (Oxford UP, 2023)
50 mins; November 19, 2024
Michael J. Alarid, "Hispano Bastion: New Mexican Power in the Age of Manifest Destiny, 1837-1860" (U New Mexico Press, 2022)
40 mins; October 19, 2024
Reunited: Family Separation and Central American Youth Migration
64 hours 56 mins; October 17, 2024
Elizabeth Korver-Glenn and Sarah Mayorga, "A Good Reputation: How Residents Fight for an American Barrio" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
59 mins; October 13, 2024
Transnational Communicative Care
50 mins; October 06, 2024
Brianna Nofil, "The Migrant's Jail: An American History of Mass Incarceration" (Princeton UP, 2024)
39 mins; October 02, 2024
Immigration Realities: Challenging Common Misperceptions
66 hours 46 mins; September 19, 2024
Jennifer Domino Rudolph, "Baseball as Mediated Latinidad: Race, Masculinity, Nationalism, and Performances of Identity" (Ohio State UP, 2020)
63 hours 25 mins; September 10, 2024
Javier Muñoz-Díaz et al., "Indigenous Materials in Libraries and the Curriculum: Latin American and Latinx Sources" (Routledge, 2024)
91 hours 34 mins; September 01, 2024
James Barrera, "'We Want Better Education!': The 1960s Chicano Student Movement, School Walkouts, and the Quest for Educational Reform in South Texas" (Texas A&M UP, 2023)
53 mins; August 25, 2024
Gerarldo Cadava, "The Hispanic Republican: The Shaping of an American Political Identity, from Nixon to Trump" (Ecco, 2020)
63 hours 33 mins; August 18, 2024
Stephanie L Canizales, "Sin Padres, Ni Papeles: Unaccompanied Migrant Youth Coming of Age in the United States" (U California Press, 2024)
62 hours 50 mins; August 18, 2024
Ana Raquel Minian, “Undocumented Lives: The Untold Story of Mexican Migration” (Harvard UP, 2018)
63 hours 35 mins; August 13, 2024
Frederick Luis Aldama, "Decolonizing Latinx Masculinities" (U Arizona Press, 2020)
35 mins; August 09, 2024
Jill A. Fisher, "Adverse Events: Race, Inequality, and the Testing of New Pharmaceuticals" (NYU Press, 2020)
48 mins; July 15, 2024
Mónica A. Jiménez, "Making Never-Never Land: Race and Law in the Creation of Puerto Rico" (UNC Press, 2024)
84 hours 14 mins; July 14, 2024
Maya Pagni Barak, "The Slow Violence of Immigration Court: Procedural Justice on Trial" (NYU Press, 2023)
49 mins; July 11, 2024
Felicia Arriaga, "Behind Crimmigration: ICE, Law Enforcement, and Resistance in America" (UNC Press, 2023)
62 hours 51 mins; June 30, 2024
Ricardo Quintana-Vallejo, "Growing Up in the Gutter: Diaspora and Comics" (U Arizona Press, 2024)
52 mins; June 25, 2024
Michael V. Singh, "Good Boys, Bad Hombres: The Racial Politics of Mentoring Latino Boys in Schools" (U Minnesota Press, 2024)
30 mins; June 16, 2024
Sommer Browning and Isabel Soto-Luna, "Serving Hispanic, Latine, and Latinx Students in Academic Libraries" (Library Juice Press, 2022)
46 mins; June 15, 2024
Laura GĂłmez, "Inventing Latinos: A New Story of American Racism" (The New Press, 2020)
63 hours 24 mins; June 11, 2024
Sergio M. González, "Strangers No Longer: Latino Belonging and Faith in Twentieth-Century Wisconsin" (U Illinois Press, 2024)
81 hours 29 mins; June 05, 2024
Tara LĂłpez, "Chuco Punk: Sonic Insurgency in El Paso" (U Texas Press, 2024)
51 mins; June 04, 2024
Adam Goodman, "The Deportation Machine: America’s Long History of Expelling Immigrants" (Princeton UP, 2020)
67 hours 9 mins; June 02, 2024
Richard E. Ocejo, "Sixty Miles Upriver: Gentrification and Race in a Small American City" (Princeton UP, 2024)
60 hours 40 mins; June 02, 2024
Transforming Hispanic-Serving Institutions for Equity and Justice
61 hours 24 mins; May 30, 2024
M. Ramirez and D. Peterson, "Ignored Racism: White Animus Toward Latinos (Cambridge UP, 2020)
59 mins; May 28, 2024
Benjamin Bryce and David M. K. Sheinin, "Race and Transnationalism in the Americas" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2021)
39 mins; May 22, 2024
Danielle R. Olden, "Racial Uncertainties: Mexican Americans, School Desegregation, and the Making of Race in Post–Civil Rights America" (U California Press, 2022)
81 hours 57 mins; May 22, 2024
Omar Valerio-Jiménez, "Remembering Conquest: Mexican Americans, Memory, and Citizenship" (UNC Press, 2024)
71 hours 26 mins; May 22, 2024
Ariana Mangual Figueroa, "Knowing Silence: How Children Talk about Immigration Status in School" (U Minnesota Press, 2024)
30 mins; May 07, 2024
Julia G. Young, "Mexican Exodus: Emigrants, Exiles, and Refugees of the Cristero War" (Oxford UP, 2019)
52 mins; May 05, 2024
Héctor Beltrán, "Code Work: Hacking Across the US/México Techno-Borderlands" (Princeton UP, 2023)
29 mins; April 21, 2024
Diana Leon-Boys, "Elena, Princesa of the Periphery: Disney’s Flexible Latina Girl" (Rutgers UP, 2023)
61 hours 18 mins; April 19, 2024
The Things We Didn't Know: A Conversation with Elba Iris Pérez
50 mins; April 18, 2024
Eve Golden, "Strictly Dynamite: The Sensational Life of Lupe Velez" (UP of Kentucky, 2023)
35 mins; April 17, 2024
Mauricio Fernando Castro, "Only a Few Blocks to Cuba: Cold War Refugee Policy, the Cuban Diaspora, and the Transformations of Miami" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
71 hours 19 mins; April 05, 2024
David Ostrowsky, "Roberto Alomar: The Complicated Life and Legacy of a Baseball Hall of Famer" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2024)
43 mins; March 22, 2024
Carly Goodman, "Dreamland: America's Immigration Lottery in an Age of Restriction" (UNC Press, 2023)
70 hours 10 mins; February 29, 2024
Laurence Ralph, "Sito: An American Teenager and the City That Failed Him" (Grand Central Publishing, 2023)
48 mins; February 21, 2024
Mirelsie Velazquez, "Puerto Rican Chicago: Schooling the City, 1940-1977" (U Illinois Press, 2022)
59 mins; February 17, 2024
Marisol LeBrĂłn, "Policing Life and Death: Race, Violence, and Resistance in Puerto Rico" (U California Press, 2019)
61 hours 56 mins; February 14, 2024
Richard T. RodrĂ­guez, "A Kiss Across the Ocean: Transatlantic Intimacies of British Post-Punk and US Latinidad" (Duke UP, 2022)
67 hours 8 mins; February 09, 2024
Julia Ornelas-Higdon, "The Grapes of Conquest: Race, Labor, and the Industrialization of California Wine, 1769–1920" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)
56 mins; February 03, 2024
Aimee Loiselle, "Beyond Norma Rae: How Puerto Rican and Southern White Women Fought for a Place in the American Working Class" (UNC Press, 2023)
55 mins; January 17, 2024
Trent Masiki, "The Afro-Latino Memoir: Race, Ethnicity, and Literary Interculturalism" (UNC Press, 2023)
35 mins; December 21, 2023
Sarah Mayorga, "Urban Specters: The Everyday Harms of Racial Capitalism" (UNC Press, 2023)
44 mins; October 29, 2023
Marisel C. Moreno, "Crossing Waters: Undocumented Migration in Hispanophone Caribbean and Latinx Literature and Art" (U Texas Press, 2022)
75 hours 37 mins; October 27, 2023
Carmen Haydée Rivera and Jorge Duany, "Cuba and Puerto Rico: Transdisciplinary Approaches to History, Literature, and Culture" (U Florida Press, 2023)
40 mins; October 15, 2023
Lisandro Pérez, "The House on G Street: A Cuban Family Saga" (NYU Press, 2023)
57 mins; October 13, 2023
Joo Ok Kim, "Warring Genealogies: Race, Kinship, and the Korean War" (Temple UP, 2022)
50 mins; September 29, 2023
Jonathan Leal, "Dreams in Double Time: On Race, Freedom, and Bebop" (Duke UP, 2023)
79 hours 4 mins; September 14, 2023
Gilberto Rosas, "Unsettling: The El Paso Massacre, Resurgent White Nationalism, and the US-Mexico Border" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)
42 mins; September 12, 2023
A Better Way to Buy Books
32 mins; September 12, 2023
Christian O. Paiz, "The Strikers of Coachella: A Rank-And-File History of the UFW Movement" (UNC Press, 2023)
70 hours 31 mins; September 08, 2023
Erik Sherman, "Daybreak at Chavez Ravine: Fernandomania and the Remaking of the Los Angeles Dodgers" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)
46 mins; September 06, 2023