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Latinx Shoppers and the Making of Class and Racial Identities: A Portrait of the Mall at Bay Plaza in the Bronx, NY

December 12, 2024Jean Tobar Research In Brief, Undergraduate Research Series, Urban Studies Leave a comment

Introduction: Luxury’s Timely Arrival in the Bronx In 2015, Sam Shalem, owner of Prestige Properties, cut the ribbon for the

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“The Chicano Voice is Shouting to be Heard!”: The University of Minnesota’s 1971 Midwest Higher Education Institute

September 3, 2024Carla Gonzalez Higher Education, Research In Brief, Social Movements One comment

In 1969, Chicano[i] students at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities (UM-Twin Cities) organized a student group called Latin Liberation Front

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Organizing and Belonging Here and There

June 5, 2024Perla M. Guerrero, Gretel H. Vera Rosas, Esmeralda Flores and Leni Alvarez Deportation and Coerced Return in the Americas Series, Research In Brief, Special Series Leave a comment

The final installment in the May-June 2024 series on Deportation and Coerced Return in the Americas is a video conversation

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“Some people ain’t got no choice”: Transborder Family Survival Against the Deportation Machine

May 29, 2024Kiara Padilla Deportation and Coerced Return in the Americas Series, Immigration, Research In Brief, Special Series Leave a comment

  Cause man, like I said, any place is a lot better than where I was. If you are here

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Repatriating Veterans

May 22, 2024Alfredo González Deportation and Coerced Return in the Americas Series, Immigration, Research In Brief, Special Series Leave a comment

Introduction Soon after his honorable discharge from the U.S. Army in 2001, Hector Barajas-Varela had trouble reintegrating into civilian life

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Three young women hold up signs reading "there is no such thing as somone else's children," "we belong to each other," and "get close enought to love them."

Non-contact: Family Separations, Accumulating Loss, and the Art of the Daughters Who Remain

May 15, 2024Kristen A. Kolenz and Amilcar Valencia Deportation and Coerced Return in the Americas Series, Immigration, Research In Brief, Special Series Leave a comment

On most days, the non-citizens held inside Stewart Detention Center (SDC) outnumber the free population in Lumpkin, Georgia.[1] CoreCivic, the

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writing on a paper that reads "la frontera cruzó mi vida"

Nothing Has Been Given: Reflections on Parenthood and Deportation, Part Two

May 8, 2024Perla M. Guerrero and Gretel H. Vera Rosas Deportation and Coerced Return in the Americas Series, Immigration, Research In Brief, Special Series Leave a comment

Other fatherhoods, alternative masculinities, and deportation Though there is a substantial amount of literature about the emotional and economic aspects

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Nothing Has Been Given: Reflections on Parenthood and Deportation, Part One

May 1, 2024Perla M. Guerrero and Gretel H. Vera Rosas Deportation and Coerced Return in the Americas Series, Immigration, Research In Brief, Special Series Leave a comment

Writing about undocumented immigrants who were deported or forced to return to Mexico has been emotionally challenging in ways that

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Zapatistas Create Alternative Futbol

April 4, 2024Ezekiel Acosta Indigenous Peoples of the Americas, Research In Brief, Sports, Trans and Queer One comment

“El EZLN le pediría a la comunidad lesbico-gay nacional, especialmente a travestis y transexuales que se organizaran y deleitarán al

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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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Palm trees, other trees and bushes and grasses near water.

“¡Fuera SpaceX!”: Imagining New STEM Futures in Latinx Communities

August 14, 2023Melissa Perez Environmental Sustainability, Pedagogy and Curriculum, Research In Brief, STEM Leave a comment

Palm trees, at least the most iconic species, are not a plant native to the southern tip of Texas, where

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El Retén Fronterizo: Un Foto Ensayo / The Border Checkpoint: A Photo Essay

March 13, 2023José Luis Cano Jr. Research In Brief, U.S.-Mexico Border Leave a comment

En los Estados Unidos, la Oficina de Aduanas y Protección Fronteriza coloca retenes fronterizos en puntos estratégicos, ubicados hasta 160

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The Poetics of Krudxs Cubensi in Concierto Abortero: Abortion, Music, and Transnational Feminism(s)

May 17, 2022José E. Valdivia Heredia Latinx Religions & Spiritualties, Research In Brief, Rethinking Queer and Trans Latinx Series, Sonic Studies and Musical Cultures, Special Series Leave a comment

Introduction: A Krudxs Poetics “Abortion is a celebration! Drink [some alcohol] with us,” our moderators, La Zea and Eliana Riaño

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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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Agency in Afro-Brazilian Travesti and Trans Feminine Music

April 28, 2022Tiago Canário Research In Brief, Rethinking Queer and Trans Latinx Series, Sonic Studies and Musical Cultures, Special Series Leave a comment

I decree that it ends here and now I decree that it ends with me, and does not end me

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“Is that a promise or a threat?”: Using (Un) Documents to examine how performances of citizenship construct the dichotomous “good” and “bad” immigrant.

April 22, 2022Jesus Gregorio Smith Research In Brief, Rethinking Queer and Trans Latinx Series, Special Series Leave a comment

“I’ve been looking at the border for a long time and asking, ‘Is that a promise or a threat?’” So

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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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“She’s …uh…Complicated”: Trans Black Latina Potentiality

April 11, 2022Andrea Bolivar Disability studies, Research In Brief, Rethinking Queer and Trans Latinx Series, Trans and Queer Leave a comment

Pride Home[1] is a small homeless shelter for young adults, located in a predominately Latinx neighborhood on the West Side

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Pride Arrives to the Barrio: An Ethnographic Reflection of Boyle Height’s Orgullo Fest

April 6, 2022Vicente Carrillo Political Activism, Research In Brief, Rethinking Queer and Trans Latinx Series, Special Series Leave a comment

How do queer communities of color stake out a territory beyond ghettos and enclaves and beyond demarcated moments such as

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Chapinx: Guatemalan, Queer, and In Between

March 29, 2022Andrew Bentley Central Americans, Research In Brief, Rethinking Queer and Trans Latinx Series, Special Series One comment

The term “Chapinx,” as a gender-inclusive variation of “Chapina” and “Chapín,” indicates Guatemalan origin, advocates for gender, ethnic, and sexual

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Queer Trans Latinx Environmentalisms

March 23, 2022María DeGuzmán Environmental Sustainability, Research In Brief, Rethinking Queer and Trans Latinx Series, Special Series Leave a comment

In this essay, I argue for a decolonial approach to ecocriticism and environmentalism in the form of “Queer Trans Latinx

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Mariconología / Mariconólogy: Notes on the History and Use of Maricón

March 16, 2022Ernesto Cuba Research In Brief, Rethinking Queer and Trans Latinx Series, Special Series 3 comments

Regardless of where Spanish speakers are located in Latin America, Spain, or the United States, the first thing many of

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Preface: Rethinking Queer and Trans Latinx (or Queer and Trans Latinidad/es)

March 14, 2022Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes, Maylei Blackwell and Francisco Galarte Research In Brief, Rethinking Queer and Trans Latinx Series, Special Series Leave a comment

What can queer, trans, and LGBTQIA+ Latinidades tell us about 2022? What does it mean to approach Latinx experience through

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Centering Interracial Solidarity

September 1, 2021Mario Obando Black Lives Matter Series, Research In Brief, Special Series Leave a comment

Over the summer of 2020, I observed many social media posts forged in the weeks after the murder of George

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

November 16, 2020Eddie Bonilla Black Lives Matter Series, Research In Brief, Social Movements, Special Series 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 Series, Immigration, Research In Brief, Special Series 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 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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Moral Panic! At Halftime: Legacies of the Latin Boom Meet Gendered and Regional Latinidades

April 7, 2020María Elena Cepeda Media, Performance Studies, Research In Brief, Sonic Studies and Musical Cultures, Sports 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 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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Book cover of Ocean Power showing blue ocean. Book cover of When it Rains showing a rural road in Arizona.

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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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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Books covers of novel "Under the Feet of Jesus" and "Their Dogs Came With Them"

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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Inheriting a Path: Rosie Castro’s Influence on Julián and Joaquin

May 14, 2019Tiffany Jasmin González Gender Studies, Research In Brief, Social Movements 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 Gender Studies, Research In Brief, Sports 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 Black Latinidades, Gender Studies, Research In Brief, Roundtable One 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 Gender Studies, 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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