Latinx Talk – Research, Commentary, Creativity

Humanity, Queerness, and Afro-Latinidad in Alejandro Heredia’s Loca (2025): A Conversation with the Author

July 15, 2025Aitor Bouso Gavín and Alejandro Heredia

With the publication of his literary debut in February 2025, Alejandro Heredia has established himself as a compelling new voice in contemporary U.S. literature. Heredia’s

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Inolvidable

June 11, 2025Valentina Rubio Lopez

Think of someone you love speaking to you. Can you hear them? You can remember someone’s words, but can you remember what it sounded like

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Book Review: Jason Ruiz, Narcomedia: Latinidad, Popular Culture, and America’s War on Drugs (2023, University of Texas Press)

April 28, 2025Lee Bebout

Jason Ruiz’s Narcomedia: Latinidad, Popular Culture, and America’s War on Drugs is a smart, layered pleasure to read. Within it he adopts similar methodological

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Interview with Sarah McNamara, author of Ybor City: Crucible of the Latina South

April 20, 2025Perla M. Guerrero and Sarah McNamara

Latinx Talk Editorial Board member Perla Guerrero interviews Sarah McNamara, author of Ybor City: Crucible of the Latina South, winner of the National Women’s Studies

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The Trump Administration’s War on DEI

February 27, 2025Kevin R. Johnson

For decades, colleges and universities have combated a history of exclusion of racial minorities and established an array of programs designed to that end. President

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Latinx Studies Scholars and the 2025 Political Landscape

February 22, 2025David J. Vázquez, Audrey Lucero, Theresa Delgadillo, Carmen R. Lugo-Lugo, Louis Mendoza, Delia Fernández-Jones and Isabel Espinal

At our November 2024 Editorial and Advisory Board meeting, we decided to create this collective/roundtable essay made up of each of our individual analyses and

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Latinx Shoppers and the Making of Class and Racial Identities: A Portrait of the Mall at Bay Plaza in the Bronx, NY

December 12, 2024Jean Tobar

Introduction: Luxury’s Timely Arrival in the Bronx In 2015, Sam Shalem, owner of Prestige Properties, cut the ribbon for the opening of the Mall at

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Women, Ecofascism, the Latinx Threat, and The Handmaid’s Tale

October 24, 2024Abigail Martinez

Capitalism’s reliance on commodity production manufactures oppressive societal structures that treat people as tools for expanding the capitalist state. It is dependent on the subjugation

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