“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