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

November 16, 2020Eddie Bonilla Black Lives Matter, Research In Brief 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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The Hotspots in Hiding: COVID-19 and Immigrant Detention

June 15, 2020David Hernández, Beatriz Marquez Aldana, Isabel Anadon and John Eason COVID-19, Research In Brief 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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Hammers and Home

May 5, 2020Ralph E. Rodriguez Latinx Literature, Research In Brief 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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Moral Panic! At Halftime: Legacies of the Latin Boom Meet Gendered and Regional Latinidades

April 7, 2020María Elena Cepeda Research In Brief 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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Why Dear Reader, You Should Read Chican@/x Poets Andrés Montoya and Natalie Díaz

March 26, 2020Stephanie Fetta Latinx Literature, Research In Brief 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 Latinx Literature, Research In Brief 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 Latinx Literature, Research In Brief 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 Latinx Literature, Research In Brief 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 Latinx Literature, Research In Brief 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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Transplanting the Tropics in Manhattan

March 18, 2020J. Bret Maney and Cristina Pérez Jiménez Research In Brief, Reviews Leave a comment

When the protagonist, Juan Marcos, in the opening pages of Guillermo Cotto-Thorner’s little-known, Spanish-language novel Trópico en Manhattan (1951), migrates

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Considering Consumption in Teaching Latinx Migration

March 17, 2020Michael Dowdy Latinx Literature, Research In Brief 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 Latinx Literature, Research In Brief 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 Latinx Literature, Research In Brief Leave a 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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Inheriting a Path: Rosie Castro’s Influence on Julián and Joaquin

May 14, 2019Tiffany Jasmin González Research In Brief 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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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 Research In Brief 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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Expanding the Dialogues: Afro-Latinx Feminisms

November 28, 2017Petra Rivera-Rideau, Omaris Z. Zamora, Sandy Plácido and Dixa Ramirez Research In Brief, Roundtable Leave a 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 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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