For many of its participants, the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL) offered them an opportunity to change their lives, yet few were as transformed as that of Isabel “Lefty” Alvarez...

Davila draws on numerous interviews with artists, dealers, and curators to explore the problem of visualizing Latinx art and artists....

Dietrich investigates how ethnic literatures took shape in the U.S. context and how writers of color intervened in the “mainstream” writing...

Maria shares her intimate experience growing up Mexican American on the South Side of Chicago...

Who truly controls immigration law in the United States?

A Peculiar Kind of Immigrant’s Son (Cinco Puntos Press, 2020) is a collection of linked short stories, which Luis Alberto Urrea called “a world-class collection.”

Rotramel explores women of color’s grassroots leadership in organizations that are not singularly identified with feminism....

Silviana Wood is a legend of Chicano theatre...

A quinceañera is a traditional fifteenth birthday celebration for young women (though in contemporary times, it can also be for young men) in many Latinx communities...

Iber and Longoria the origins of Latino American football, the role of World War II and the Civil Rights movement in expanding opportunities for Latino sportsmen, and the ongoing obstacles to Latino participation in the game that many love....

The authors argues that such accounts fundamentally underestimate the political power of whites' animus toward Latinos and thus miss how conflict extends well beyond immigration to issues such as voting rights, criminal punishment, policing, and which candidates to support....

Playwright and theatre scholar Anne García-Romero traces the career and legacy of Maria Irene Fornes.

An early wave of research helped make visible the complex dynamics of sexuality and gender norms in Latino life, but a new generation of scholars is bringing renewed energy and curiosity to this field of inquiry...

Maduro was greatly responsible for the Cuban League’s recognition by professional baseball (in the US)....

Barragán-Goetz argues that through cultural negotiation, escuelitas (community schools) shaped Mexican American identity and civil rights activism in the late 19th and early 20th century...

Gomez illuminates the fascinating race-making, unmaking, and re-making of Latino identity that has spanned centuries, leaving a permanent imprint on how race operates in the United States today...

What explains voting behavior in local elections? More specifically, what explains how ethnic and racial blocs vote in local elections, especially when the candidate may be of a different race or ethnicity?

What happens when a new group of migrants enters not just the social and economic life of a city, but also its religious institutions?

Alamillo illustrates how sports intersect in the making of a Latina/o identity, civil rights activities, and community...

Olivas provides a much needed legal and political history of the DREAM Act that spans over two decades from its introduction in Congress (2001) to the Trump Administration challenge of legality in the Supreme Court (2017)....

Martinez-Matsuda exams the Farm Security Administration’s Migratory Labor Camp Program, and its role in the daily lives of a diverse number of farmworker families...

Zavella shows how reproductive justice organizations' collaborative work across racial lines provides a compelling model for other groups to successfully influence change...

Rudolph analyzes major league baseball’s Latin/o American players—who now make up more than twenty-five percent of MLB...

Garcia-Colon offers the first in-depth look at the experiences of Puerto Rican migrant workers in continental U.S. agriculture in the twentieth century...

Goodman offers an expansive history of deportation from the United States that threads the late-nineteenth century through to the present...