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  • El Encuentro by Rita Wirkala

    El Encuentro/The Encounter, A Review

    March 27, 2020Diane Lindner and Teresa Luengo Cid

    March 2020 Latinx Talk Series on Latinx Migration Literature We recommend El Encuentro (English version The Encounter) by Rita Wirkala, a Young Adult novel that is a must-read

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  • Stick figure bodies underneath a series of arches and a seated male with tattoos wearing a feathered headdress in a family living room

    Why Dear Reader, You Should Read Chican@/x Poets Andrés Montoya and Natalie Díaz

    March 26, 2020Stephanie Fetta

    “One day, God fell in love” sings the late, great Chicano poet, Andrés Montoya. I have taught his posthumous collection Jury of Trees (Tempe: Bilingual

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  • Cover of Goodman Theatre's Festival Latino with woman arms extended.

    Our Dad Is In Atlantis: Border Crossings as Latinx Theater Practice

    March 25, 2020Priscilla Maria Page

    March 2020 Latinx Talk on Latinx Migration Literature A butterfly calls                                 

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  • Cover of the novel, The Brick People, which shows brick workers.

    Restoring History, Brick by Brick

    March 24, 2020Margarita López López

    March 2020 Latinx Talk Special Series on Latinx Migration Literature As a historical and biographical novel, The Brick People (Arte Público Press, 1988) is fundamental

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  • Book cover of Ocean Power showing blue ocean. Book cover of When it Rains showing a rural road in Arizona.

    The Poems the Border Crossed: Attending to the Resilient Geographies of the Tohono O’odham and Pima People

    March 23, 2020David Satten-López

    March 2020 Latinx Talk Series on Latinx Migration Literature  I remember sitting in a Caribbean Literature course in college and hearing an anecdote about Aimé

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  • Book cover of Monkey Hunting showing tropical scene

    LatinAsian and Black Latinx Migrations in Literature

    March 20, 2020Geovani Ramírez

    March 2020 Latinx Talk Special Series on Latinx Migration Literature My first choice for teaching a Latinx migration literary piece is Cristina García’s Monkey Hunting

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  • Book cover of American Copia showing grocery store aisle

    Migrants in the Land of Plenty

    March 19, 2020Maceo Montoya

    March 2020 Latinx Talk Special Series on Latinx Migration Literature American Copia: An Immigrant Epic (Arte Público Press, 2012) by Javier O. Huerta When Javier

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  • Book cover of Tropico in Manhattan showing palm tree growing out of tall building

    Transplanting the Tropics in Manhattan

    March 18, 2020J. Bret Maney and Cristina Pérez Jiménez

    When the protagonist, Juan Marcos, in the opening pages of Guillermo Cotto-Thorner’s little-known, Spanish-language novel Trópico en Manhattan (1951), migrates from Puerto Rico to New

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Stick figure bodies underneath a series of arches and a seated male with tattoos wearing a feathered headdress in a family living room

Why Dear Reader, You Should Read Chican@/x Poets Andrés Montoya and Natalie Díaz

March 26, 2020Stephanie Fetta

“One day, God fell in love” sings the late, great Chicano poet,

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Cover of Goodman Theatre's Festival Latino with woman arms extended.

Our Dad Is In Atlantis: Border Crossings as Latinx Theater Practice

March 25, 2020
Cover of the novel, The Brick People, which shows brick workers.

Restoring History, Brick by Brick

March 24, 2020
Book cover of Ocean Power showing blue ocean. Book cover of When it Rains showing a rural road in Arizona.

The Poems the Border Crossed: Attending to the Resilient Geographies of the Tohono O’odham and Pima People

March 23, 2020

Roundtable

In Support of Latinx Students

March 5, 2019Latinx Talk

Amidst a challenging climate, we all continue to work to educate and

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The Underrepresentation of Latinx Faculty and the Future of Higher Education

September 19, 2018
map of Central America and Caribbean

Expanding the Dialogues: Afro-Latinx Feminisms

November 28, 2017

Latinx Talk: Our Collective Vision, Sounding out the Future

September 12, 2017

On the Ground

Sign reading Only Yes Means Yes

Not your Mami

March 3, 2020Catalina Adragna

“Racism intersects with sexism to pit women of color and white women

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Latina on the Border: Musings of a Feminist Immigrant, Part Two

October 15, 2019
Floating striated sphere/paper flower-like.

Latina on the Border: Musings of a Feminist Immigrant, Part One

October 8, 2019

Making Sensation and Sense of the Migrant Caravan of Fall 2018, Part Two

March 26, 2019

Reviews

El Encuentro by Rita Wirkala

El Encuentro/The Encounter, A Review

March 27, 2020Diane Lindner and Teresa Luengo Cid

March 2020 Latinx Talk Series on Latinx Migration Literature We recommend El Encuentro (English version

Continue reading »
Book cover of American Copia showing grocery store aisle

Migrants in the Land of Plenty

March 19, 2020
Book cover of Tropico in Manhattan showing palm tree growing out of tall building

Transplanting the Tropics in Manhattan

March 18, 2020
Book cover of "Agents of Change" with headshot of Adela Sloss Venm

Interview with Cynthia E. Orozco, Author of Agent of Change

February 18, 2020

In Academia

Three red spheres. The first sphere is smooth, The second sphere is textured. The third sphere is spiky, thick texture.

Latina on the Border: Musings of a Feminist Immigrant, Part Two

October 15, 2019Eliana S. Rivero

It was to counter feelings of being an alien from outer space

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Floating striated sphere/paper flower-like.

Latina on the Border: Musings of a Feminist Immigrant, Part One

October 8, 2019

In Support of Latinx Students

March 5, 2019

Strategies for Negotiating Power and Privilege in Academia

January 15, 2019

Informed Commentary

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Mothering Against Militarism

May 8, 2018Belinda Linn Rincón

In April of 1918 anxious military bureaucrats were summoned by the Assistant

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marchers carrying banner that reads immigrant rights are human rights

Arpaio’s Pardon and the Insidious Relationship between Anti-Immigrant and Anti-Latinx Sentiment

September 26, 2017
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The Pardon of Sheriff Joe Arpaio and the Rule of Law

September 19, 2017

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