“Unity of our struggles means terror/ in the enemy’s eyes/ Unity of just struggles, means/ death to imperialism,” wrote Amiri
Category: Research In Brief
The Hotspots in Hiding: COVID-19 and Immigrant Detention
The combination of immigrant detention and COVID-19 is a travesty happening in real time, expanding rapidly, and resembling the situation
Hammers and Home
I began teaching Chicana/o literature in the mid-1990s as a graduate student at the University of Texas at Austin. I
Moral Panic! At Halftime: Legacies of the Latin Boom Meet Gendered and Regional Latinidades
On February 2nd, 2020, roughly 103 million global television viewers witnessed perhaps the most hotly discussed Latina/o/x live musical event
Why Dear Reader, You Should Read Chican@/x Poets Andrés Montoya and Natalie Díaz
“One day, God fell in love” sings the late, great Chicano poet, Andrés Montoya. I have taught his posthumous collection
Our Dad Is In Atlantis: Border Crossings as Latinx Theater Practice
March 2020 Latinx Talk on Latinx Migration Literature A butterfly calls
Restoring History, Brick by Brick
March 2020 Latinx Talk Special Series on Latinx Migration Literature As a historical and biographical novel, The Brick People (Arte
The Poems the Border Crossed: Attending to the Resilient Geographies of the Tohono O’odham and Pima People
March 2020 Latinx Talk Series on Latinx Migration Literature I remember sitting in a Caribbean Literature course in college and
LatinAsian and Black Latinx Migrations in Literature
March 2020 Latinx Talk Special Series on Latinx Migration Literature My first choice for teaching a Latinx migration literary piece
Transplanting the Tropics in Manhattan
When the protagonist, Juan Marcos, in the opening pages of Guillermo Cotto-Thorner’s little-known, Spanish-language novel Trópico en Manhattan (1951), migrates
Considering Consumption in Teaching Latinx Migration
March 2020 Latinx Talk Special Series on Latinx Migration Literature Like a series of mixtapes, my Latinx literature syllabi feature
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
Thickening Borders Across Mexico: Follow-up Stories from the Caravan
The departure of a large caravan of Central American migrants from Honduras, whose journey into and through Mexico received constant
Inheriting a Path: Rosie Castro’s Influence on Julián and Joaquin
In January 2019, former San Antonio Mayor and U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Julián Castro announced his 2020
We See You, Hermana — At All of Your Powerful Intersections! The White Racial Framing of Serena Williams
This article arose from a discussion among Latinx scholars, disillusioned by the treatment and reaction to superstar-tennis-champion, mother and Black
Expanding the Dialogues: Afro-Latinx Feminisms
In recognizing and remembering the ongoing legacy of Black and Latinx feminisms we begin with a question: where can we
Unknown Activists, Invisible Promotoras
Latinx Feminists in the anti-rape movement[1] have long embodied the realities and challenges expressed in the Combahee River Collective Statement