New Books in Latino Studies
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Ariana Brown, "We Are Owed." (Grieveland Press, 2021)
54 mins; July 16, 2021
Raúl Diego Rivera Hernández, "Narratives of Vulnerability in Mexico's War on Drugs" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2020)
47 mins; July 14, 2021
George J. Sánchez, "Boyle Heights: How a Los Angeles Neighborhood Became the Future of American Democracy" (U California Press, 2021)
66 hours 1 min; July 06, 2021
Sean Guynes and Martin Lund, "Unstable Masks: Whiteness and American Superhero Comics" (Ohio State UP, 2020)
57 mins; June 17, 2021
Jessica Ordaz, "The Shadow of El Centro: A History of Migrant Incarceration and Solidarity" (UNC Press, 2021)
61 hours 25 mins; May 24, 2021
Aaron E. Sánchez, "Homeland: Ethnic Mexican Belonging Since 1900" (U Oklahoma Press, 2021)
82 hours 55 mins; May 19, 2021
Cristina Beltrán, "Cruelty As Citizenship: How Migrant Suffering Sustains White Democracy" (U Minnesota Press, 2020)
54 mins; May 13, 2021
Felipe Hinojosa, "Apostles of Change: Latino Radical Politics, Church Occupations, and the Fight to Save the Barrio" (U Texas Press, 2021)
71 hours 6 mins; April 27, 2021
Iván Monalisa Ojeda, "Las Biuty Queens: Stories" (Astra House, 2021)
61 hours 37 mins; April 27, 2021
Johana Londoño, "Abstract Barrios: The Crises of Latinx Visibility in Cities" (Duke UP, 2020)
76 hours 12 mins; April 16, 2021
Julio CapĂł Jr., "Welcome to Fairyland: Queer Miami before 1940" (UNC Press, 2017)
52 mins; April 12, 2021
Roberto Lovato, "Unforgetting: A Memoir of Family, Migration, Gangs, and Revolution in the Americas" (Harper, 2020)
69 hours 10 mins; March 30, 2021
Linda Heidenreich, "Nepantla Squared: Transgender Mestiz@ Histories in Times of Global Shift" (U Nebraska Press, 2020)
42 mins; March 17, 2021
Christopher T. Stout, "The Case for Identity Politics: Polarization, Demographic Change, and Racial Appeals" (U Virginia Press, 2020)
41 mins; March 11, 2021
Rihan Yeh, "Passing: Two Publics in a Mexican Border City" (U of Chicago Press, 2017)
52 mins; March 08, 2021
Francisco J. Galarte, "Brown Trans Figurations: Rethinking Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Chicanx/Latinx Studies" (U of Texas Press, 2021)
71 hours 10 mins; March 04, 2021
Yomaira C. Figueroa-Vásquez, "Decolonizing Diasporas: Radical Mappings of Afro-Atlantic Literature" (Northwestern UP, 2020)
69 hours 54 mins; February 18, 2021
Rose Muzio, "Radical Imagination, Radical Humanity: Puerto Rican Political Activism in New York" (SUNY, 2017)
62 hours 43 mins; February 16, 2021
M. C. Riggio et al, "Festive Devils of the Americas" (Seagull Books, 2015)
91 hours 18 mins; February 04, 2021
David Trouille, "FĂştbol in the Park: Immigrants, Soccer, and the Creation of Social Ties" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
53 mins; February 01, 2021
Elisa Pulido, "The Spiritual Evolution of Margarito Bautista: Mexican Mormon Evangelizer, Polygamist Dissident, and Utopian Founder, 1878-1961" (Oxford UP, 2020)
61 hours 29 mins; January 20, 2021
Vanessa Diaz, "Manufacturing Celebrity: Latino Paparazzi and Women Reporters in Hollywood" (Duke UP, 2020)
50 mins; November 17, 2020
Kat D. Williams, "Isabel 'Lefty' Alvarez: The Improbable Life of a Cuban American Baseball Star" (U Nebraska Press, 2020)
42 mins; November 16, 2020
Arlene Davila, "Latinx Art: Artists, Markets, and Politics" (Duke UP, 2020)
60 hours 38 mins; November 13, 2020
Lucas A. Dietrich, "Writing Across the Color Line: U.S. Print Culture and the Rise of Ethnic Literature, 1877-1920" (U Massachusetts Press, 2020)
55 mins; November 12, 2020
Maria Hinojosa, "Once I Was You: A Memoir of Love and Hate in a Torn America" (Atria Books, 2020)
65 hours 8 mins; October 21, 2020
A. B. Cox and C. M. RodrĂ­guez, "The President and Immigration Law" (Oxford UP, 2020)
47 mins; October 14, 2020
Sergio Troncoso, "A Peculiar Kind of Immigrant’s Son" (Cinco Puntos Press, 2020)
34 mins; October 06, 2020
Ariella Rotramel, "Pushing Back: Women of Color-Led Grassroots Activism in New York City" (U Georgia Press, 2020)
97 hours 20 mins; September 29, 2020
Silviana Wood, "Barrio Dreams: Selected Plays" (U Arizona Press, 2016)
44 mins; September 22, 2020
Rachel V. González, "Quinceañera Style: Social Belonging and Latinx Consumer Identities"
64 hours 42 mins; September 18, 2020
J. Iber and M. Longoria, "Latinos in American Football: Pathbreakers on the Gridiron, 1927 to the Present" (McFarland, 2020)
66 hours 23 mins; September 16, 2020
Anne GarcĂ­a-Romero, "The Fornes Frame" (U Arizona Press, 2016)
54 mins; September 15, 2020
Lou Hernandez, "Bobby Maduro and the Cuban Sugar Kings" (McFarland, 2019)
50 mins; August 26, 2020
Andrea Benjamin, "Racial Coalition Building in Local Elections: Elite Cues and Cross-Ethnic Voting" (Cambridge UP, 2017)
47 mins; August 13, 2020
Deborah E. Kanter, "Chicago CatĂłlico: Making Catholic Parishes Mexican" (U Illinois Press, 2020)
45 mins; August 11, 2020
José Alamillo, "Deportes: The Making of a Sporting Mexican Diaspora" (Rutgers UP, 2020)
47 mins; August 07, 2020
Michael A. Olivas, "Perchance to DREAM: A Legal and Political History of the DREAM Act and DACA" (NYU Press, 2020)
63 hours 9 mins; August 03, 2020
VerĂłnica MartĂ­nez-Matsuda, "Migrant Citizenship: Race, Rights, and Reform in the U.S. Farm Labor Camp Program" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2020)
56 mins; July 27, 2020
Patricia Zavella, "The Movement for Reproductive Justice: Empowering Women of Color through Social Activism" (NYU Press, 2020)
49 mins; July 24, 2020
Ismael Garcia-Colon, "Colonial Migrants at the Heart of Empire: Puerto Rican Workers on U.S. Farms" (U California Press, 2020)
25 mins; July 10, 2020
Robert T. Chase, "We Are Not Slaves: State Violence, Coerced Labor, and Prisoners’ Rights in Postwar America" (UNC Press, 2020)
64 hours 56 mins; June 24, 2020
Monika Gosin, "The Racial Politics of Division: Interethnic Struggles For Legitimacy in Multicultural Miami" (Cornell UP, 2019)
60 hours 29 mins; June 22, 2020
Nora Haenn, "Marriage after Migration: An Ethnography of Money, Romance, and Gender in Globalizing Mexico" (Oxford UP, 2019)
50 mins; June 17, 2020
Romeo Guzman et al., "East of East: The Making of Greater El Monte" (Rutgers UP, 2020)
71 hours 18 mins; June 12, 2020
Scott Seider and Daren Graves, "Schooling for Critical Consciousness" (Harvard Education, 2020)
81 hours 35 mins; June 05, 2020
Gilda R. Daniels, "Uncounted: The Crisis of Voter Suppression" (NYU Press, 2020)
49 mins; June 04, 2020
Brian Greene, "Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe" (Random House, 2020)
120 hours 37 mins; June 02, 2020
Jia Lynn Yang, "One Mighty and Irresistible Tide: The Epic Struggle Over American Immigration, 1924–1965" (Norton, 2020)
67 hours 34 mins; May 14, 2020
Leslie M. Harris, "Slavery and the University: Histories and Legacies" (U Georgia Press, 2019)
59 mins; April 28, 2020
Cynthia Orozco, "Agent of Change: Adela Sloss-Vento, Mexican American Civil Rights Activist and Texas Feminist" (U Texas Press, 2020)
63 hours 54 mins; April 16, 2020
David G. Garcia, "Strategies of Segregation: Race, Residence, and the Struggle for Educational Equality" (U California Press, 2018)
60 hours 49 mins; April 09, 2020
Matt Cook, "Sleight of Mind: 75 Ingenious Paradoxes in Mathematics, Physics, and Philosophy" (MIT Press, 2020)
51 mins; March 30, 2020
John Weber, "From South Texas to the Nation: The Exploitation of Mexican Labor in the Twentieth Century" (UNC Press, 2015)
40 mins; March 20, 2020
Phillipa Chong, “Inside the Critics’ Circle: Book Reviewing in Uncertain Times” (Princeton UP, 2020)
42 mins; February 25, 2020
A. K. Sandoval-Strausz, "Barrio America: How Latino Immigrants Saved the American City" (Basic Books, 2019)
64 hours 6 mins; February 12, 2020
Mario T. GarcĂ­a, "Father Luis Olivares, A Biography: Faith Politics and the Origins of the Sanctuary Movement in Los Angeles" (UNC Press, 2018)
68 hours 30 mins; February 11, 2020
Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof, "Racial Migrations: New York City and the Revolutionary Politics of the Spanish Caribbean" (Princeton UP, 2019)
61 hours 27 mins; February 03, 2020
K. Linder et al., "Going Alt-Ac: A Guide to Alternative Academic Careers" (Stylus Publishing, 2020)
36 mins; January 30, 2020
C. J. Alvarez, "Border Land, Border Water: A History of Construction on the US-Mexico Divide" (U Texas Press, 2019)
60 hours 38 mins; January 03, 2020
Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia, "Banned: Immigration Enforcement in the Time of Trump" (NYU Press, 2019)
40 mins; December 30, 2019
William D. Lopez, "Separated: Family & Community in the Aftermath of an Immigration Raid" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2019)
25 mins; December 09, 2019
Alberto Cairo, "How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information" (Norton, 2019)
57 mins; December 03, 2019
S. Deborah Kang, "The INS on the Line: Making Immigration Law on the US-Mexico Border, 1917-1954" (Oxford UP, 2017)
49 mins; November 11, 2019
Jonathan Rosa, "Looking like a Language, Sounding like a Race" (Oxford UP, 2019)
61 hours 15 mins; November 04, 2019
Kathryn Conrad on University Press Publishing
37 mins; November 03, 2019
Perla Guerrero, "Nuevo South: Asians, Latinas/os, and the Remaking of Place" (U Texas Press, 2017)
54 mins; October 31, 2019
Gary J. Adler, Jr., "Empathy Beyond US Borders: The Challenges of Transnational Civic Engagement" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
54 mins; October 29, 2019
J. Neuhaus, "Geeky Pedagogy: A Guide for Intellectuals, Introverts, and Nerds Who Want to Be Effective Teachers" (West Virginia UP, 2019)
29 mins; October 24, 2019
Julia Young, "Mexican Exodus: Emigrants, Exiles, and Refugees of the Cristero War" (Oxford UP, 2019)
49 mins; October 23, 2019
Lorena Oropeza, "The King of Adobe: Reies LĂłpez Tijerina, Lost Prophet of the Chicano Movement" (UNC Press, 2019)
69 hours 55 mins; October 22, 2019
T. L. Bunyasi and C. W. Smith, "Stay Woke: A People’s Guide to Making All Black Lives Matter" (NYU Press, 2019)
61 hours 38 mins; October 14, 2019
Marisol LeBrĂłn and Yarimar Bonilla, "Aftershocks of Disaster: Puerto Rico Before and After the Storm" (Haymarket, 2019)
61 hours 21 mins; October 04, 2019
Miroslava Chávez-García, "Migrant Longing: Letter Writing across the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands" (UNC Press, 2018)
56 mins; September 17, 2019
Joy McCann, "Wild Sea: A History of the Southern Ocean" (U New South Wales Press, 2018)
35 mins; September 13, 2019
Cecilia Caballero et al. "The Chicana M(other)work Anthology: Porque Sin Madres No Hay Revolucion" (U Arizona Press, 2019)
65 hours 45 mins; August 28, 2019
Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof, "Racial Migrations: New York City and the Revolutionary Politics of the Spanish Caribbean" (Princeton UP, 2019)
89 hours 44 mins; August 27, 2019
Gabriela González, "Redeeming La Raza: Transborder Modernity, Race, Respectability and Rights" (Oxford UP, 2018)
66 hours 43 mins; July 29, 2019
Monica Muñoz Martinez, "The Injustice Never Leaves You: Anti-Mexican Violence in Texas" (Harvard UP, 2018)
70 hours 1 min; July 29, 2019
Jennifer A. Jones, "The Browning of the New South" (U Chicago Press, 2019)
56 mins; July 24, 2019
Elaine Hampton and Cynthia Ontiveros, "Copper Stain: ASARCO’s Legacy in El Paso" (U Oklahoma Press, 2019)
39 mins; July 17, 2019
Maria Cotera, "Chicana Movidas: New Narratives of Activism and Feminism in the Movement Era" (U of Texas Press, 2018)
59 mins; July 17, 2019
Genevieve Carpio, "Collisions at the Crossroads: How Place and Mobility Make Race" (U California Press, 2019)
68 hours 58 mins; July 08, 2019
Carolina Alonso Bejarano, "Decolonizing Ethnography: Undocumented Immigrants and New Directions in Social Science" (Duke UP, 2019)
60 hours 38 mins; July 01, 2019
Laura R. Barraclough, "Charros: How Mexican Cowboys Are Remapping Race and American Identity" (U California Press, 2019)
70 hours 5 mins; July 01, 2019
Nancy Mirabal, "Suspect Freedoms: The Racial and Sexual Politics of Cubanidad in New York, 1823-1957" (NYU Press, 2017)
51 mins; June 27, 2019
Camisha Russell, "The Assisted Reproduction of Race" (Indiana UP, 2018)
78 hours 35 mins; June 20, 2019
Marisol LeBrĂłn, "Policing Life and Death: Race, Violence, and Resistance in Puerto Rico" (U California Press, 2019)
61 hours 56 mins; June 18, 2019
Ali Michael, "Raising Race Questions: Whiteness and Inquiry in Education" (Teachers College Press, 2015)
69 hours 10 mins; May 13, 2019
Discussion of Massive Online Peer Review and Open Access Publishing
32 mins; March 19, 2019
Harry Franqui-Rivera, "Soldiers of the Nation: Military Service and Modern Puerto Rico, 1868-1952" (U Nebraska Press, 2018)
89 hours 38 mins; January 10, 2019
McKenzie Wark, "General Intellects: Twenty-One Thinkers for the Twenty-First Century" (Verso, 2017)
64 hours 1 min; December 06, 2018
Sara Komarnisky, "Mexicans in Alaska: An Ethnography of Mobility, Place, and Transnational Life" (U Nebraska Press, 2018)
55 mins; December 06, 2018
Ronald Rael, “Borderwall as Architecture: A Manifesto for the U.S.-Mexico Boundary” (U California Press, 2017)
43 mins; November 16, 2018
Bernard Fraga, “The Turnout Gap: Race, Ethnicity, and Political Inequality in a Diversifying America” (Cambridge UP, 2018)
21 mins; November 12, 2018
Lisandro Perez, “Sugar, Cigars and Revolution: The Making of Cuban New York” (NYU Press, 2018)
34 mins; November 01, 2018
Andrew M. Busch, “City in a Garden: Environmental Transformations and Racial Justice in Twentieth-Century Austin, Texas” (UNC Press, 2017)
64 hours 20 mins; October 16, 2018
Janelle Wong, “Immigrants, Evangelicals, and Politics in an Era of Demographic Change” (Russell Sage Foundation, 2018)
20 mins; September 21, 2018
Stephanie Elizondo Griest, “All the Agents and Saints: Dispatches from the U.S. Borderlands” (UNC Press, 2017)
58 mins; September 06, 2018
Harold Morales, “Latino and Muslim in America: Race, Religion, and the Making of a New Minority” (Oxford UP, 2018)
45 mins; September 03, 2018