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  • What Does It Mean to Build an Online Journal for Scholars, Not Just by Scholars?

    May 2, 2026Rafael “Rafa” Ramírez Solórzano

    Community-Driven Diamond Open Access Publishing in Practice. Latinx Talk was selected as one of the journals in this year’s Lyrasis Open Access Community Investment Program

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  • Book Review: Lorgia García Peña, Community as Rebellion

    April 26, 2026Delia Fernández-Jones

    Now more than ever, we need Lorgia Garcia Peña’s Community as Rebellion: A Syllabus for Surviving Academia as a Woman of Color (Haymarket Books, 2022).

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    Call for Papers – Loss and Liberation: Latinx Studies and the Question of Palestine

    April 15, 2026Karma R. Chávez  and Sara Awartani

    NEW due date: May 11, 2026 Across our communities–activist and academic alike–the past two years drew into sharp relief the relationships between Latines and the

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  • “A Creature of Darkness and a Creature of Light”: A Conversation on Latinx Environmentalisms

    April 12, 2026David J. Vázquez and Carlos Alonso Nugent

    A conversation on Latinx environmentalisms with Carlos Alonso Nugent and David J. Vázquez Decolonial Environmentalisms: Climate Justice and Speculative Futures in Latinx Cultural Production by

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  • Student reflections on Bad Bunny at the 2026 ¡Super Tazón!

    March 5, 2026Ashlanda Bannerman, Anna Gayton, Seneca Farhy, Allyson Bartek, Isabella Capito, Imogen Buck and Mark D Naison

    Introduction By Dr. Mark D Naison These Reflections on Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl Halftime Show were written for a course at Fordham University (Bronx, NY)

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    The Trump, Venezuela, Dominican Connection: What’s at Stake for Latinos

    March 3, 2026Alexa Rodríguez

    As people familiar with U.S. policy in Latin America have noted, the January 3rd U.S. military strike on Venezuela and the subsequent kidnapping of Venezuelan

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  • Book Review: Lee Bebout, Rules for Reactionaries: How to Maintain Inequality and Stop Social Justice (New York University Press, 2025)

    February 3, 2026David J. Vázquez

    For years I have been waiting for a book that would serve as a contemporary companion to a previous generation of critical whiteness studies like

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  • Interview with Paola Mendoza, Artist & Activist

    January 19, 2026Belinda Linn Rincón, Paola Mendoza and Angelicke Sierra

    Latinx Talk Editorial Board member Belinda Linn Rincon, along with student Angelicke Sierra, interview Paola Mendoza. Mendoza is an award-winning author, filmmaker, and activist who

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Deportation and Coerced Return

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Organizing and Belonging Here and There

June 5, 2024Perla M. Guerrero, Gretel H. Vera Rosas, Esmeralda Flores and Leni Alvarez

The final installment in the May-June 2024 series on Deportation and Coerced

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“Some people ain’t got no choice”: Transborder Family Survival Against the Deportation Machine

May 29, 2024
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Repatriating Veterans

May 22, 2024
Three young women hold up signs reading "there is no such thing as somone else's children," "we belong to each other," and "get close enought to love them."

Non-contact: Family Separations, Accumulating Loss, and the Art of the Daughters Who Remain

May 15, 2024

Rethinking Queer and Trans Latinx

The Poetics of Krudxs Cubensi in Concierto Abortero: Abortion, Music, and Transnational Feminism(s)

May 17, 2022José E. Valdivia Heredia

Introduction: A Krudxs Poetics “Abortion is a celebration! Drink [some alcohol] with

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Queer Diasporic Sensibilities: Unicorns, Glitter, and Loss in Maya Chinchilla’s Chapina Poética

May 11, 2022

Agency in Afro-Brazilian Travesti and Trans Feminine Music

April 28, 2022

“Is that a promise or a threat?”: Using (Un) Documents to examine how performances of citizenship construct the dichotomous “good” and “bad” immigrant.

April 22, 2022

Research in Brief

Revolutionary Solidarity on the Plains: Charles R.D.S. Oakford’s the Prolocutor and Mexican Migrants in Garden City, Kansas

October 28, 2025Jonathan Tomás Balderas

Introduction The Kansan socialist Charles R. D. S. Oakford was in trouble

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The Latinx Religious Red Surge?

September 2, 2025

Examining Latino Voters Who Say “I’m a Republican but not a Trumpster”

August 25, 2025

Reggaetoneros Republicanos: The Politics of Reggaetón

August 21, 2025

Informed Commentary

What Does It Mean to Build an Online Journal for Scholars, Not Just by Scholars?

May 2, 2026Rafael “Rafa” Ramírez Solórzano

Community-Driven Diamond Open Access Publishing in Practice. Latinx Talk was selected as

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El Salvador’s Nayib Bukele and the Latino Right

August 11, 2025

The Trump Administration’s War on DEI

February 27, 2025
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Latinx Studies Scholars and the 2025 Political Landscape

February 22, 2025

On the Ground

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Organizing on the Ground for BLM: A Gay Mixed Black and Mexican Perspective

November 18, 2020Jesus Smith

Growing up in El Paso, TX (EPT) and embodying three marginalized identities—gay,

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Dear Latines: Your Antiblackness Will Not Save You

November 11, 2020
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Documenting Latinx Communities: Podcasting and Oral History in the Time of COVID-19

July 15, 2020
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Transitioning U.S. Latinx Students to an Online Environment for Displaced Study Abroad Students

July 8, 2020

In Academia

What Does It Mean to Build an Online Journal for Scholars, Not Just by Scholars?

May 2, 2026Rafael “Rafa” Ramírez Solórzano

Community-Driven Diamond Open Access Publishing in Practice. Latinx Talk was selected as

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Book Review: Lorgia García Peña, Community as Rebellion

April 26, 2026
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Subversive Stickers in the Classroom: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Make Stickers with My Students

January 6, 2026

The Trump Administration’s War on DEI

February 27, 2025

Roundtable

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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

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The Underrepresentation of Latinx Faculty and the Future of Higher Education

September 19, 2018
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Expanding the Dialogues: Afro-Latinx Feminisms

November 28, 2017

Reviews

Book Review: Lorgia García Peña, Community as Rebellion

April 26, 2026Delia Fernández-Jones

Now more than ever, we need Lorgia Garcia Peña’s Community as Rebellion:

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“A Creature of Darkness and a Creature of Light”: A Conversation on Latinx Environmentalisms

April 12, 2026

Book Review: Lee Bebout, Rules for Reactionaries: How to Maintain Inequality and Stop Social Justice (New York University Press, 2025)

February 3, 2026

Book Review: Laura C. Chávez-Moreno, How Schools Make Race: Teaching Latinx Racialization in America (Harvard Education Press, 2025)

October 16, 2025

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