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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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El Encuentro by Rita Wirkala

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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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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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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