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The Trump Administration’s War on DEI
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Organizing on the Ground for BLM: A Gay Mixed Black and Mexican Perspective
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Inolvidable
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Book Review: Jason Ruiz, Narcomedia: Latinidad, Popular Culture, and America’s War on Drugs (2023, University of Texas Press)
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Interview with Sarah McNamara, author of Ybor City: Crucible of the Latina South
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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
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Beyond the Jersey: Latino Relationships with U.S. Sports
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Interview with Felipe Hinojosa, Author of Apostles of Change (University of Texas Press)
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Nothing Has Been Given: Reflections on Parenthood and Deportation, Part Two
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Zapatistas Create Alternative Futbol
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The Flawed Deserve Better
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“¡Fuera SpaceX!”: Imagining New STEM Futures in Latinx Communities
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Call for Papers for Special Series on Deportation and Coerced Return in the Américas
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Interview with Yajaira M. Padilla, Author of From Threatening Guerrillas to Forever Illegals (University of Texas Press, 2022)
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El Retén Fronterizo: Un Foto Ensayo / The Border Checkpoint: A Photo Essay
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Book Review: Karen Jaime, The Queer Nuyorican: Racialized Sexualities and Aesthetics in Loisaida (NYU Press, 2021)
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The Poetics of Krudxs Cubensi in Concierto Abortero: Abortion, Music, and Transnational Feminism(s)
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Queer Diasporic Sensibilities: Unicorns, Glitter, and Loss in Maya Chinchilla’s Chapina Poética
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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.
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The ‘Silence’ After ‘The Silence’: Queer Latinx Literary Studies’ Critical Engagement of Junot Díaz
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“She’s …uh…Complicated”: Trans Black Latina Potentiality
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Pride Arrives to the Barrio: An Ethnographic Reflection of Boyle Height’s Orgullo Fest
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Chapinx: Guatemalan, Queer, and In Between
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Queer Trans Latinx Environmentalisms
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Organizing on the Ground for BLM: A Gay Mixed Black and Mexican Perspective
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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)
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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)
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Interview with María DeGuzmán, Author of Understanding John Rechy (University of South Carolina Press, 2019)
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Documenting Latinx Communities: Podcasting and Oral History in the Time of COVID-19
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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)
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Interview with Patricia Zavella, author of The Movement for Reproductive Justice (NYU Press, 2020)
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Mothering a Latino Boy in the Trump era
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Interview with Kevin Escudero, author of Organizing While Undocumented: Immigrant Youth’s Political Activism under the Law (NYU Press, 2020)
Latinx Talk: Tell us about yourself. Kevin Escudero: I am an assistant professor of American Studies and Ethnic Studies at
Hammers and Home
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Interview with Cynthia E. Orozco, Author of Agent of Change
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Thickening Borders Across Mexico: Follow-up Stories from the Caravan
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Latina on the Border: Musings of a Feminist Immigrant, Part Two
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Inheriting a Path: Rosie Castro’s Influence on Julián and Joaquin
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Border College: The Past, Its Present, Our Future
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The Underrepresentation of Latinx Faculty and the Future of Higher Education
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Mothering Against Militarism
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Arpaio’s Pardon and the Insidious Relationship between Anti-Immigrant and Anti-Latinx Sentiment
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