New Books in Latino Studies
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Lucas A. Dietrich, "Writing Across the Color Li...
Dietrich investigates how ethnic literatures took shape in the U.S. context and how writers of color intervened in the “mainstream” writing...
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Maria Hinojosa, "Once I Was You: A Memoir of Lo...
Maria shares her intimate experience growing up Mexican American on the South Side of Chicago...
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A. B. Cox and C. M. Rodríguez, "The President a...
Who truly controls immigration law in the United States?
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Sergio Troncoso, "A Peculiar Kind of Immigrant’...
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.”
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Ariella Rotramel, "Pushing Back: Women of Color...
Rotramel explores women of color’s grassroots leadership in organizations that are not singularly identified with feminism....
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Silviana Wood, "Barrio Dreams: Selected Plays" ...
Silviana Wood is a legend of Chicano theatre...
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Rachel V. González, "Quinceañera Style: Social ...
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...
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J. Iber and M. Longoria, "Latinos in American F...
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....
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Anne García-Romero, "The Fornes Frame" (U Arizo...
Playwright and theatre scholar Anne García-Romero traces the career and legacy of Maria Irene Fornes.
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Lou Hernandez, "Bobby Maduro and the Cuban Suga...
Maduro was greatly responsible for the Cuban League’s recognition by professional baseball (in the US)....
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Andrea Benjamin, "Racial Coalition Building in ...
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?
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Deborah E. Kanter, "Chicago Católico: Making Ca...
What happens when a new group of migrants enters not just the social and economic life of a city, but also its religious institutions?
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José Alamillo, "Deportes: The Making of a Sport...
Alamillo illustrates how sports intersect in the making of a Latina/o identity, civil rights activities, and community...
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Michael A. Olivas, "Perchance to DREAM: A Legal...
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)....
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Verónica Martínez-Matsuda, "Migrant Citizenship...
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...
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Patricia Zavella, "The Movement for Reproductiv...
Zavella shows how reproductive justice organizations' collaborative work across racial lines provides a compelling model for other groups to successfully influence change...
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Ismael Garcia-Colon, "Colonial Migrants at the ...
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...
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Robert T. Chase, "We Are Not Slaves: State Viol...
Chase narrates the struggle to change prison from within...
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Monika Gosin, "The Racial Politics of Division:...
Gosin reveals how differing notions of “worthy citizenship” encouraged interethnic conflict...
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Nora Haenn, "Marriage after Migration: An Ethno...
Haenn tells the stories of five women in rural Mexico, each navigating the tricky terrain that is men’s international migration...
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Romeo Guzman et al., "East of East: The Making ...
Employing traditional historical scholarship, oral history, creative nonfiction and original art, the book provides a radical new history of El Monte and South El Monte...
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Scott Seider and Daren Graves, "Schooling for C...
Seider and Graves address how schools can help Black and Latinx youth to understand these racial disparities, resist the negative effects of racial injustice and challenge its root causes...
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Gilda R. Daniels, "Uncounted: The Crisis of Vot...
Are we asleep at the (common)wheel?
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Brian Greene, "Until the End of Time: Mind, Mat...
Greene offers the the reader a theory of everything...
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Jia Lynn Yang, "One Mighty and Irresistible Tid...
Yang recounts the personalities and debates that brought about the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act, which forms the foundation for modern U.S. immigration policy...
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