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Deportation and Coerced Return

Title screen of video conversation on Organizing and Belonging Here and There

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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Author with uncle and partner grilling meet outdoors in Tijuana yard.

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

May 29, 2024
Military veterans in uniform with their families holding sign reading "stop the deportation of military veterans" at border port of entry

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

Undergraduate Research Series

Inolvidable

June 11, 2025Valentina Rubio Lopez

Think of someone you love speaking to you. Can you hear them?

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Man and children shopping in clothes store.

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

December 12, 2024
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Women, Ecofascism, the Latinx Threat, and The Handmaid’s Tale 

October 24, 2024

Beyond the Jersey: Latino Relationships with U.S. Sports

October 10, 2024

Rethinking Queer and Trans Latinx Series

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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Image by Rio Yañez and Yolanda Lopez 2014

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

Man and children shopping in clothes store.

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

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“The Chicano Voice is Shouting to be Heard!”: The University of Minnesota’s 1971 Midwest Higher Education Institute

September 3, 2024
Title screen of video conversation on Organizing and Belonging Here and There

Organizing and Belonging Here and There

June 5, 2024
Author with uncle and partner grilling meet outdoors in Tijuana yard.

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

May 29, 2024

Informed Commentary

The Trump Administration’s War on DEI

February 27, 2025Kevin R. Johnson

For decades, colleges and universities have combated a history of exclusion of

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Latinx Studies Scholars and the 2025 Political Landscape

February 22, 2025

Covid 19, Latinx Culture and Technology: Opportunities for Culturally Responsive Research

August 2, 2021

Vulnerable Bodies: Domestic Violence in the Hispanic/Latinx Community During a Pandemic

October 15, 2020

On the Ground

Protestors marching down the middle of the street holding Pride flags and a banner that reads "Pride-BLM Solidarity"

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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Crowd in a large urban city center with a protestor holding a sign reading "vidas negras importan"

Dear Latines: Your Antiblackness Will Not Save You

November 11, 2020
Two microphones attached to a digital audio recorder

Documenting Latinx Communities: Podcasting and Oral History in the Time of COVID-19

July 15, 2020
Empty college classroom with long desks and many chairs, large windows in the background showing bright skies with some clouds

Transitioning U.S. Latinx Students to an Online Environment for Displaced Study Abroad Students

July 8, 2020

In Academia

The Trump Administration’s War on DEI

February 27, 2025Kevin R. Johnson

For decades, colleges and universities have combated a history of exclusion of

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seven fists of different skin colors arranged in a circle

Latinx Studies Scholars and the 2025 Political Landscape

February 22, 2025

What Roberto Meant To Us

November 16, 2022

Essential Latinx Educators: Teaching in a Time of Pandemic

July 6, 2020

Inolvidable

June 11, 2025Valentina Rubio Lopez Cultural Studies, Sonic Studies and Musical Cultures, Undergraduate Research Series Leave a comment

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

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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 Cultural Studies, Media, Reviews Leave a comment

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

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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 Gender Studies, Reviews Leave a comment

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

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The Trump Administration’s War on DEI

February 27, 2025Kevin R. Johnson Higher Education, In Academia, Informed Commentary, Race/Ethnicity Leave a comment

For decades, colleges and universities have combated a history of exclusion of racial minorities and established an array of programs

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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 In Academia, Informed Commentary, Roundtable, Uncategorized Leave a comment

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

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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 Research In Brief, Undergraduate Research Series, Urban Studies Leave a comment

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

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dirt with greenery in background and two tools sticking out of the dirt

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

October 24, 2024Abigail Martinez  Environmental Sustainability, Gender Studies, Reproductive Rights, Special Series, Undergraduate Research Series Leave a comment

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

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Beyond the Jersey: Latino Relationships with U.S. Sports

October 10, 2024Melissa Parra Special Series, Sports, Undergraduate Research Series Leave a comment

Sports such as baseball, soccer, football, and tennis have long been recognized as America’s pastimes. Major League Baseball, Major League

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cover of 1970 Chicano Midwest conference

“The Chicano Voice is Shouting to be Heard!”: The University of Minnesota’s 1971 Midwest Higher Education Institute

September 3, 2024Carla Gonzalez Higher Education, Research In Brief, Social Movements One comment

In 1969, Chicano[i] students at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities (UM-Twin Cities) organized a student group called Latin Liberation Front

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Interview with Felipe Hinojosa, Author of Apostles of Change (University of Texas Press)

June 19, 2024Felipe Hinojosa and Theresa Delgadillo Latinx Religions & Spiritualties, Reviews, Urban Studies Leave a comment

Apostles of Change: Latino Radical Politics, Church Occupations, and the Fight to Save the Barrio by Felipe Hinojosa (University of

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Title screen of video conversation on Organizing and Belonging Here and There

Organizing and Belonging Here and There

June 5, 2024Perla M. Guerrero, Gretel H. Vera Rosas, Esmeralda Flores and Leni Alvarez Deportation and Coerced Return in the Americas Series, Research In Brief, Special Series Leave a comment

The final installment in the May-June 2024 series on Deportation and Coerced Return in the Americas is a video conversation

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Author with uncle and partner grilling meet outdoors in Tijuana yard.

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

May 29, 2024Kiara Padilla Deportation and Coerced Return in the Americas Series, Immigration, Research In Brief, Special Series Leave a comment

  Cause man, like I said, any place is a lot better than where I was. If you are here

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Military veterans in uniform with their families holding sign reading "stop the deportation of military veterans" at border port of entry

Repatriating Veterans

May 22, 2024Alfredo González Deportation and Coerced Return in the Americas Series, Immigration, Research In Brief, Special Series Leave a comment

Introduction Soon after his honorable discharge from the U.S. Army in 2001, Hector Barajas-Varela had trouble reintegrating into civilian life

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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, 2024Kristen A. Kolenz and Amilcar Valencia Deportation and Coerced Return in the Americas Series, Immigration, Research In Brief, Special Series Leave a comment

On most days, the non-citizens held inside Stewart Detention Center (SDC) outnumber the free population in Lumpkin, Georgia.[1] CoreCivic, the

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writing on a paper that reads "la frontera cruzó mi vida"

Nothing Has Been Given: Reflections on Parenthood and Deportation, Part Two

May 8, 2024Perla M. Guerrero and Gretel H. Vera Rosas Deportation and Coerced Return in the Americas Series, Immigration, Research In Brief, Special Series Leave a comment

Other fatherhoods, alternative masculinities, and deportation Though there is a substantial amount of literature about the emotional and economic aspects

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Nothing Has Been Given: Reflections on Parenthood and Deportation, Part One

May 1, 2024Perla M. Guerrero and Gretel H. Vera Rosas Deportation and Coerced Return in the Americas Series, Immigration, Research In Brief, Special Series Leave a comment

Writing about undocumented immigrants who were deported or forced to return to Mexico has been emotionally challenging in ways that

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stenciled image of masked EZLN futbol/soccer player on wall next to door with varied graffitti tags

Zapatistas Create Alternative Futbol

April 4, 2024Ezekiel Acosta Indigenous Peoples of the Americas, Research In Brief, Sports, Trans and Queer One comment

“El EZLN le pediría a la comunidad lesbico-gay nacional, especialmente a travestis y transexuales que se organizaran y deleitarán al

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Review of Los huecos del agua

October 9, 2023Kevin Anzzolin Art, Indigenous Peoples of the Americas, Reviews 2 comments

Riven by disagreements involving education policy, migrant rights, and a Supreme Court emboldened by a new balance of power, the

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Rubric for Readers: Attention, Sympathy, & Ethical Witnessing

September 25, 2023Mariah Shadinger Immigration, Latinx Literature, Special Series, Undergraduate Research Series Leave a comment

How much does perspective and narration really affect a reader’s interpretation of a character’s actions and the novel’s story more

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Evoking Empathy in Migration Stories

September 11, 2023Jenna Alexis Sanchez Immigration, Latinx Literature, Special Series, Undergraduate Research Series Leave a comment

Discussions about immigration can be very divisive and difficult within the United States as there are many different viewpoints on

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The Flawed Deserve Better

August 28, 2023Emma Altschul Immigration, Latinx Literature, Research In Brief, Special Series, Undergraduate Research Series Leave a comment

At times, authors avoid fully fleshing out their characters because less sympathy is offered to those who make mistakes. Two

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“¡Fuera SpaceX!”: Imagining New STEM Futures in Latinx Communities

August 14, 2023Melissa Perez Environmental Sustainability, Pedagogy and Curriculum, Research In Brief, STEM Leave a comment

Palm trees, at least the most iconic species, are not a plant native to the southern tip of Texas, where

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Man standing in front of plastic sacks that are given to deportees for their belongings.

Call for Papers for Special Series on Deportation and Coerced Return in the Américas

June 29, 2023Latinx Talk Editorial Board Uncategorized Leave a comment

Editors: Perla M. Guerrero and Gretel H. Vera-Rosas NEW Submission Deadline: September 1, 2023 Publication Date: November 2023 The online

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Interview with Yajaira M. Padilla, Author of From Threatening Guerrillas to Forever Illegals (University of Texas Press, 2022)

May 25, 2023Yajaira M. Padilla and Theresa Delgadillo Reviews Leave a comment

Interview conducted on May 3, 2023. Theresa Delgadillo: Why did you write From Threatening Guerrillas to Forever illegals?   Yajaira

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El Retén Fronterizo: Un Foto Ensayo / The Border Checkpoint: A Photo Essay

March 13, 2023José Luis Cano Jr. Research In Brief, U.S.-Mexico Border Leave a comment

En los Estados Unidos, la Oficina de Aduanas y Protección Fronteriza coloca retenes fronterizos en puntos estratégicos, ubicados hasta 160

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Book cover of RACIAL INNOCENCE

Interview with Tanya Katerí Hernández, Author of Racial Innocence

February 27, 2023Tanya Katerí Hernández and Latinx Talk Editorial Board Black Lives Matter, Reviews Leave a comment

Latinx Talk: Why did you write Racial Innocence: Unmasking Latino Anti-Black Bias and the Struggle for Equality? Tanya Katerí Hernández: At

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A Conversation with Stephanie Fetta on Shaming into Brown

February 6, 2023Isabel Espinal and Stephanie Fetta Latinx Literature, Reviews Leave a comment

Watch and listen to our interview with Dr. Stephanie Fetta, author of the award-winning book, Shaming into Brown: Somatic Transactions

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What Roberto Meant To Us

November 16, 2022Latinx Talk Editorial Board In Academia 2 comments

Roberto C. Delgadillo joined the Latinx Talk Editorial Board in 2017. It was a year of transition for us, from

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Mini-Readers

July 1, 2022Latinx Talk Editorial Board Open Educational Resources Leave a comment

In 2020 and 2021, Latinx Talk launched an Open Educational Resources project to make publications from our site available for

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Book Review: Karen Jaime, The Queer Nuyorican: Racialized Sexualities and Aesthetics in Loisaida (NYU Press, 2021)

June 22, 2022Regina Marie Mills Latinx Literature, Puerto Rican Studies, Reviews, Trans and Queer Leave a comment

Review by Regina Marie Mills, Texas A&M University Karen Jaime’s The Queer Nuyorican begins with her own experience at the

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

May 17, 2022José E. Valdivia Heredia Latinx Religions & Spiritualties, Research In Brief, Rethinking Queer and Trans Latinx Series, Sonic Studies and Musical Cultures, Special Series Leave a comment

Introduction: A Krudxs Poetics “Abortion is a celebration! Drink [some alcohol] with us,” our moderators, La Zea and Eliana Riaño

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

May 11, 2022Ruben Zecena Central Americans, Latinx Literature, Research In Brief, Rethinking Queer and Trans Latinx Series, Special Series Leave a comment

Image by Rio Yañez and Yolanda Lopez 2014 Maya Chinchilla’s poem, “What It’s Like to Be a Central American Unicorn

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Agency in Afro-Brazilian Travesti and Trans Feminine Music

April 28, 2022Tiago Canário Research In Brief, Rethinking Queer and Trans Latinx Series, Sonic Studies and Musical Cultures, Special Series Leave a comment

I decree that it ends here and now I decree that it ends with me, and does not end me

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“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, 2022Jesus Gregorio Smith Research In Brief, Rethinking Queer and Trans Latinx Series, Special Series Leave a comment

“I’ve been looking at the border for a long time and asking, ‘Is that a promise or a threat?’” So

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The ‘Silence’ After ‘The Silence’: Queer Latinx Literary Studies’ Critical Engagement of Junot Díaz

April 13, 2022Ricardo Ortiz Latinx Literature, Research In Brief, Rethinking Queer and Trans Latinx Series, Special Series Leave a comment

The publication of “The Silence: The Legacy of Childhood Trauma,” Junot Díaz’s confessional piece about being raped twice by a

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“She’s …uh…Complicated”: Trans Black Latina Potentiality

April 11, 2022Andrea Bolivar Disability studies, Research In Brief, Rethinking Queer and Trans Latinx Series, Trans and Queer Leave a comment

Pride Home[1] is a small homeless shelter for young adults, located in a predominately Latinx neighborhood on the West Side

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Pride Arrives to the Barrio: An Ethnographic Reflection of Boyle Height’s Orgullo Fest

April 6, 2022Vicente Carrillo Political Activism, Research In Brief, Rethinking Queer and Trans Latinx Series, Special Series Leave a comment

How do queer communities of color stake out a territory beyond ghettos and enclaves and beyond demarcated moments such as

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Chapinx: Guatemalan, Queer, and In Between

March 29, 2022Andrew Bentley Central Americans, Research In Brief, Rethinking Queer and Trans Latinx Series, Special Series One comment

The term “Chapinx,” as a gender-inclusive variation of “Chapina” and “Chapín,” indicates Guatemalan origin, advocates for gender, ethnic, and sexual

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Group of individuals marching and holding signs in English and Spanish reading. "Clean Water is a Human Right"

Queer Trans Latinx Environmentalisms

March 23, 2022María DeGuzmán Environmental Sustainability, Research In Brief, Rethinking Queer and Trans Latinx Series, Special Series Leave a comment

In this essay, I argue for a decolonial approach to ecocriticism and environmentalism in the form of “Queer Trans Latinx

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Black and white photo of an individual wearing a white tshirt with the word MARICON written on it in all capital letters.

Mariconología / Mariconólogy: Notes on the History and Use of Maricón

March 16, 2022Ernesto Cuba Research In Brief, Rethinking Queer and Trans Latinx Series, Special Series 3 comments

Regardless of where Spanish speakers are located in Latin America, Spain, or the United States, the first thing many of

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Preface: Rethinking Queer and Trans Latinx (or Queer and Trans Latinidad/es)

March 14, 2022Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes, Maylei Blackwell and Francisco Galarte Research In Brief, Rethinking Queer and Trans Latinx Series, Special Series Leave a comment

What can queer, trans, and LGBTQIA+ Latinidades tell us about 2022? What does it mean to approach Latinx experience through

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The Voices of “La Brega: Stories of the Puerto Rican Experience”

October 11, 2021Rebeca L. Hey-Colón Media, Puerto Rican Studies, Reviews 2 comments

“Brega pana, dale.” This sentence may appear nonsensical to many readers, even those who consider Spanish their first language. Yet

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A conversation with Allyson P. Brantley on her new book, Brewing a Boycott: How a Grassroots Coalition Fought Coors and Remade American Consumer Activism

September 20, 2021Allyson P. Brantley History, Reviews, Social Movements Leave a comment

Dr. Allyson P. Brantley is an Assistant Professor of History & Director of Honors and Interdisciplinary Initiatives at the University

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Centering Interracial Solidarity

September 1, 2021Mario Obando Black Lives Matter Series, Research In Brief, Special Series Leave a comment

Over the summer of 2020, I observed many social media posts forged in the weeks after the murder of George

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Latinx and Black Lives Matter: Latinx Talk Mini-Reader #1

August 4, 2021Theresa Delgadillo Open Educational Resources Leave a comment

Latinx Talk Mini-Readers offer a curated selection of essays and creative work previously published on our site and our predecessor

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Covid 19, Latinx Culture and Technology: Opportunities for Culturally Responsive Research

August 2, 2021Maria J. Anderson-Coto COVID-19 Series, Informed Commentary, Special Series Leave a comment

As I ask my parents about their day over dinner, our connection freezes. Although it is frustrating, we end up

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A Conversation with Professor Larry La Fountain-Stokes on his new book, Translocas: The Politics of Puerto Rican Drag and Trans Performance

July 14, 2021Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes Performance Studies, Puerto Rican Studies, Reviews, Trans and Queer Leave a comment

Larry La Fountain-Stokes is Professor of Spanish, American Culture, and Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Michigan. In

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A Conversation with historian Max Krochmal on his award winning book, Blue Texas: The Making of a Multiracial Democratic Coalition in the Civil Rights Era

May 17, 2021Felipe Hinojosa History, Reviews Leave a comment

Dr. Max Krochmal is an associate professor of history at Texas Christian University. He won the Organization of American Historians’s Frederick

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Protestors marching down the middle of the street holding Pride flags and a banner that reads "Pride-BLM Solidarity"

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

November 18, 2020Jesus Smith Black Lives Matter Series, On the Ground, Special Series, Trans and Queer Leave a comment

Growing up in El Paso, TX (EPT) and embodying three marginalized identities—gay, Black and Mexican—made me acutely aware of the

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The Intersections of Black and Latina/o/x Radical Traditions

November 16, 2020Eddie Bonilla Black Lives Matter Series, Research In Brief, Social Movements, Special Series 2 comments

“Unity of our struggles means terror/ in the enemy’s eyes/ Unity of just struggles, means/ death to imperialism,” wrote Amiri

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Crowd in a large urban city center with a protestor holding a sign reading "vidas negras importan"

Dear Latines: Your Antiblackness Will Not Save You

November 11, 2020Michaela Machicote Black Lives Matter Series, Latin America, On the Ground, Special Series One comment

Dear Latines,[1] your antiblackness will not save you. Your aspirations to whiteness are deadly (RIP Trayvon Martin; RIP Philando Castile);

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A conversation with Martha Gonzalez, author of Chican@ Artivistas: Music, Community, and Transborder Tactics in East Los Angeles (University of Texas Press, 2020)

October 29, 2020Martha Gonzalez Reviews, Sonic Studies and Musical Cultures Leave a comment

Dr. Martha Gonzalez is an Associate Professor of Chicana/o and Latina/o Studies at Scripps/Claremont College and author of the new

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Vulnerable Bodies: Domestic Violence in the Hispanic/Latinx Community During a Pandemic

October 15, 2020Karina Elizabeth Vázquez, Sadie Wenger and Danny Frascella COVID-19 Series, Informed Commentary, Special Series Leave a comment

While it is easily argued that domestic violence is a public health matter, it has been consistently excluded from news

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Interview with Lara Medina, co-editor of Voices from the Ancestors and Beyond: Chicanx/Latinx Spiritual Expressions and Healing Practices (University of Arizona Press, 2019)

October 13, 2020Lara Medina Religion and Spirituality, Reviews Leave a comment

LT: What prepared you all for the work you accomplish in Voices from the Ancestors? LM: My own spiritual journey

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Book cover of "Understanding Johny Rechy": includes a black and white photo of Johny Rechy sitting at a desk with a typewriter facing the photographer

Interview with María DeGuzmán, Author of Understanding John Rechy (University of South Carolina Press, 2019)

September 2, 2020María DeGuzmán Latinx Literature, Reviews, Trans and Queer Leave a comment

Please tell us about yourself and what prepared you for the work you accomplish in Understanding John Rechy? I first

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Documenting Latinx Communities: Podcasting and Oral History in the Time of COVID-19

July 15, 2020Nelson Santana COVID-19 Series, On the Ground, Special Series Leave a comment

Coping with COVID-19 A question that has been lingering on my mind since March is: How are people coping with

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Empty college classroom with long desks and many chairs, large windows in the background showing bright skies with some clouds

Transitioning U.S. Latinx Students to an Online Environment for Displaced Study Abroad Students

July 8, 2020Gina Malagold COVID-19 Series, On the Ground, Special Series Leave a comment

During my spring break in Rosario, Argentina I was woken up on an early overcast Thursday morning by the ping

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Essential Latinx Educators: Teaching in a Time of Pandemic

July 6, 2020Leticia Alvarez Gutiérrez, Annie Isabel Fukushima and Marie Sarita Gaytán COVID-19 Series, Higher Education, In Academia, Special Series 2 comments

COVID-19 continues to take a disproportionate toll on Latinxs because many have low-paying jobs that require them to interact with

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Interview with Geraldo Cadava, author of The Hispanic Republican: The Shaping of an American Political Identity, from Nixon to Trump (Ecco, 2020)

July 3, 2020Geraldo Cadava Reviews Leave a comment

Latinx Talk: Please tell us about yourself and what prepared you for the work you accomplish in The Hispanic Republican? GC: I was

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Cover of the book, The Movement for Reproductive Justice. Photo includes women activists gathered together holding a megaphone and protest signs.

Interview with Patricia Zavella, author of The Movement for Reproductive Justice (NYU Press, 2020)

July 1, 2020Patricia Zavella Reproductive Rights, Reviews, Social Movements Leave a comment

Latinx Talk: Please tell us about yourself and what prepared you for the work you accomplish in The Movement for Reproductive

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Mothering a Latino Boy in the Trump era

June 29, 2020Itzel Reyes COVID-19 Series, On the Ground, Special Series Leave a comment

Colorblindness betrayed me on Tuesday, November 8th, 2016. To be fair, it did announce its arrival the night before. When

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Bodega Dreams in Austin, Texas

June 24, 2020Alexandrea Pérez Allison COVID-19 Series, Informed Commentary, Special Series Leave a comment

“The neighborhood might have been down, but it was far from out. Its people far from defeat. They had been

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Social Distancing While Brown

June 22, 2020Marcela Rodriguez-Campo COVID-19 Series, On the Ground, Special Series Leave a comment

“Come inside child rest yourself it’s okay to want to be held ain’t we all just trying to be some

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Compassionate Pedagogies in a Pandemic: Reflections from Latina Scholars

June 17, 2020Leisy J. Abrego, Andrea Gómez Cervantes, Briceida Hernandez-Toledo, Leigh-Anna Hidalgo, Lucia P. Leon, Joanna B. Perez and Iris M. Ramirez COVID-19 Series, Higher Education, In Academia, Special Series Leave a comment

In the midst of the current global pandemic, we have read wide-ranging advice about how to maintain our professionalism in

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The Hotspots in Hiding: COVID-19 and Immigrant Detention

June 15, 2020David Hernández, Beatriz Marquez Aldana, Isabel Anadon and John Eason COVID-19 Series, Immigration, Research In Brief, Special Series Leave a comment

The combination of immigrant detention and COVID-19 is a travesty happening in real time, expanding rapidly, and resembling the situation

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New Editorial and Advisory Board Members

June 12, 2020Felipe Hinojosa In Academia Leave a comment

Latinx Talk is excited to announce the appointment of three new members to its Advisory Board and two new members

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Interview with Kevin Escudero, author of Organizing While Undocumented: Immigrant Youth’s Political Activism under the Law (NYU Press, 2020)

May 19, 2020Kevin Escudero Immigration, Reviews, Social Movements One comment

Latinx Talk: Tell us about yourself. Kevin Escudero: I am an assistant professor of American Studies and Ethnic Studies at

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Hammers and Home

May 5, 2020Ralph E. Rodriguez 2020 Latinx Migration Literature Series, Latinx Literature, Research In Brief, Special Series One comment

I began teaching Chicana/o literature in the mid-1990s as a graduate student at the University of Texas at Austin. I

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Triptych of singer Shakira in concert, group of children protesting detention of child migrants and Poster of Jenifer Lopez concert.

Showcasing J.Lo’s Aesthetic and Political Abilities

April 21, 2020Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs Informed Commentary, Sonic Studies and Musical Cultures, Sports 2 comments

They pulled the wool over everyone’s eyes in order to make a statement about children, Puerto Rico, latinidad, beauty, music,

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Moral Panic! At Halftime: Legacies of the Latin Boom Meet Gendered and Regional Latinidades

April 7, 2020María Elena Cepeda Media, Performance Studies, Research In Brief, Sonic Studies and Musical Cultures, Sports 2 comments

On February 2n​d​, 2020, roughly 103 million global television viewers witnessed perhaps the most hotly discussed Latina/o/x live musical event

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El Encuentro/The Encounter, A Review

March 27, 2020Diane Lindner and Teresa Luengo Cid 2020 Latinx Migration Literature Series, Immigration, Latinx Literature, Reviews, Special Series Leave a comment

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

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

March 26, 2020Stephanie Fetta 2020 Latinx Migration Literature Series, Latinx Literature, Research In Brief, Special Series Leave a comment

March 2020 Latinx Talk on Latinx Migration Literature “One day, God fell in love” sings the late, great Chicano poet, Andrés Montoya.

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

March 25, 2020Priscilla Maria Page 2020 Latinx Migration Literature Series, Immigration, Latinx Literature, Research In Brief, Special Series Leave a comment

March 2020 Latinx Talk on Latinx Migration Literature A butterfly calls                       

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Restoring History, Brick by Brick

March 24, 2020Margarita López López 2020 Latinx Migration Literature Series, Immigration, Latinx Literature, Research In Brief, Special Series 2 comments

March 2020 Latinx Talk Special Series on Latinx Migration Literature As a historical and biographical novel, The Brick People (Arte

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

March 23, 2020David Satten-López 2020 Latinx Migration Literature Series, Immigration, Latinx Literature, Research In Brief, Special Series Leave a comment

March 2020 Latinx Talk Series on Latinx Migration Literature  I remember sitting in a Caribbean Literature course in college and

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LatinAsian and Black Latinx Migrations in Literature

March 20, 2020Geovani Ramírez 2020 Latinx Migration Literature Series, Immigration, Latinx Literature, Research In Brief, Special Series Leave a comment

March 2020 Latinx Talk Special Series on Latinx Migration Literature My first choice for teaching a Latinx migration literary piece

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Migrants in the Land of Plenty

March 19, 2020Maceo Montoya 2020 Latinx Migration Literature Series, Immigration, Latinx Literature, Reviews, Special Series Leave a comment

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

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Transplanting the Tropics in Manhattan

March 18, 2020J. Bret Maney and Cristina Pérez Jiménez 2020 Latinx Migration Literature Series, Latinx Literature, Research In Brief, Reviews, Special Series Leave a comment

March 2020 Latinx Talk Special Series on Latinx Migration Literature When the protagonist, Juan Marcos, in the opening pages of

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Considering Consumption in Teaching Latinx Migration

March 17, 2020Michael Dowdy 2020 Latinx Migration Literature Series, Latinx Literature, Research In Brief, Special Series Leave a comment

March 2020 Latinx Talk Special Series on Latinx Migration Literature Like a series of mixtapes, my Latinx literature syllabi feature

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On The Tattooed Soldier and What We Carry in Migration

March 16, 2020Regina Marie Mills 2020 Latinx Migration Literature Series, Central Americans, Latinx Literature, Research In Brief, Special Series Leave a comment

March 2020 Latinx Talk Special Series on Latinx Migration Literature In the immigrant novel I teach, there is not one

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March 3, 2020Catalina Adragna Gender Studies, On the Ground One comment

“Racism intersects with sexism to pit women of color and white women against each other. Women of color are sexualized

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

February 18, 2020Cynthia E. Orozco Reviews Leave a comment

Latinx Talk: Please tell us about yourself. Dr. Cynthia E. Orozco: My mother, Aurora E. Orozco, graduated from high school in

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Thickening Borders Across Mexico: Follow-up Stories from the Caravan

February 4, 2020Robert McKee Irwin Immigration, Latinx Literature, Research In Brief One comment

The departure of a large caravan of Central American migrants from Honduras, whose journey into and through Mexico received constant

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

October 15, 2019Eliana S. Rivero Gender Studies, Higher Education, In Academia, On the Ground Leave a comment

It was to counter feelings of being an alien from outer space that I dived headlong into assimilation, into the

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

October 8, 2019Eliana S. Rivero Gender Studies, Higher Education, In Academia, On the Ground Leave a comment

What am I but Woman and Other? While engaging the complex host of issues that accompany immigration, uprooting, and gender

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Inheriting a Path: Rosie Castro’s Influence on Julián and Joaquin

May 14, 2019Tiffany Jasmin González Gender Studies, Research In Brief, Social Movements 2 comments

In January 2019, former San Antonio Mayor and U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Julián Castro announced his 2020

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

March 26, 2019Robert McKee Irwin Central Americans, Immigration, On the Ground, Social Movements One comment

Migrant Border Politics My previous installment questioned tendencies on both right and left to represent the migrant caravan through reductive

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

March 19, 2019Robert McKee Irwin Central Americans, Immigration, On the Ground, Social Movements, U.S.-Mexico Border One comment

General Introduction On October 13, 2018, a large caravan of migrants departed from San Pedro Sula, Honduras, heading north toward

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We See You, Hermana — At All of Your Powerful Intersections! The White Racial Framing of Serena Williams

February 5, 2019Rachel F. Gomez, Michelle Rascon-Canales and Andrea Romero Gender Studies, Research In Brief, Sports Leave a comment

This article arose from a discussion among Latinx scholars, disillusioned by the treatment and reaction to superstar-tennis-champion, mother and Black

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Strategies for Negotiating Power and Privilege in Academia

January 15, 2019Miroslava Chávez-García Higher Education, In Academia, Professionalization One comment

A year ago, a former student, Ishman Anderson, a young Black man currently a doctoral candidate in the San Francisco

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Border College: The Past, Its Present, Our Future

October 30, 2018Michael Ortiz Higher Education, In Academia, On the Ground, Pedagogy and Curriculum 2 comments

I little thought as a graduate student that my academic future lay in driving a truck around Texas brush country.

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The Underrepresentation of Latinx Faculty and the Future of Higher Education

September 19, 2018Louis Mendoza, Nancy Raquel Mirabal, William Yslas Vélez, Yolanda Martînez-San Miguel and Lena Palacios In Academia, Roundtable 4 comments

Louis Mendoza, Director of the School of Humanities, Arts and Cultural Studies, Arizona State University This Latinx talk forum focuses on

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Mothering Against Militarism

May 8, 2018Belinda Linn Rincón Gender Studies, Informed Commentary, Latinx Literature, Militarism Leave a comment

In April of 1918 anxious military bureaucrats were summoned by the Assistant Secretary of War to discuss the looming domestic

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On Being Borg, On Being Puerto Rican

March 13, 2018Carmen R. Lugo-Lugo On the Ground, Puerto Rican Studies One comment

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Building the First Latinx Educational Midwest Conference at the University of Iowa

December 19, 2017Carla Gonzalez and Jason Harshman Higher Education, In Academia Leave a comment

The first University of Iowa College of Education Latinx Educational Excellence in the Midwest Conference was held October 20 –

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Expanding the Dialogues: Afro-Latinx Feminisms

November 28, 2017Petra Rivera-Rideau, Omaris Z. Zamora, Sandy Plácido and Dixa Ramirez Black Latinidades, Gender Studies, Research In Brief, Roundtable One comment

In recognizing and remembering the ongoing legacy of Black and Latinx feminisms we begin with a question: where can we

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Unknown Activists, Invisible Promotoras

November 21, 2017Aline Jesus Rafi and Laura E. Zárate Gender Studies, Research In Brief Leave a comment

Latinx Feminists in the anti-rape movement[1] have long embodied the realities and challenges expressed in the Combahee River Collective Statement

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Embracing Nepantla Amidst Midwestern Borderscapes in the Time of #45

October 24, 2017Gabriela Spears-Rico In Academia One comment

“The U.S-Mexican border es una herida abierta where the Third World grates against the first and bleeds.” – Gloria Anzaldúa

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Belonging and Accents: Salvadoran Diaspora in Mexico and the U.S.

October 3, 2017Elena Foulis Central Americans, On the Ground, U.S.-Mexico Border One comment

We are not born with accents, yet accents and dialects are tied to region, nationalities, and class. Like many immigrants

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

September 26, 2017Cassaundra Rodriguez Immigration, Informed Commentary, Racial Profiling One comment

Reading the news, I felt a pit in my stomach. I was struck by the physical reaction, knowing full well

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