Image by Rio Yañez and Yolanda Lopez 2014 Maya Chinchilla’s poem, “What It’s Like to Be a Central American Unicorn
Category: Central Americans
Chapinx: Guatemalan, Queer, and In Between
The term “Chapinx,” as a gender-inclusive variation of “Chapina” and “Chapín,” indicates Guatemalan origin, advocates for gender, ethnic, and sexual
On The Tattooed Soldier and What We Carry in Migration
March 2020 Latinx Talk Special Series on Latinx Migration Literature In the immigrant novel I teach, there is not one
Making Sensation and Sense of the Migrant Caravan of Fall 2018, Part Two
Migrant Border Politics My previous installment questioned tendencies on both right and left to represent the migrant caravan through reductive
Making Sensation and Sense of the Migrant Caravan of Fall 2018, Part One
General Introduction On October 13, 2018, a large caravan of migrants departed from San Pedro Sula, Honduras, heading north toward
Belonging and Accents: Salvadoran Diaspora in Mexico and the U.S.
We are not born with accents, yet accents and dialects are tied to region, nationalities, and class. Like many immigrants