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“A Creature of Darkness and a Creature of Light”: A Conversation on Latinx Environmentalisms
A conversation on Latinx environmentalisms with Carlos Alonso Nugent and David J. Vázquez Decolonial Environmentalisms: Climate Justice and Speculative Futures
Book Review: Lee Bebout, Rules for Reactionaries: How to Maintain Inequality and Stop Social Justice (New York University Press, 2025)
For years I have been waiting for a book that would serve as a contemporary companion to a previous generation
Book Review: Laura C. Chávez-Moreno, How Schools Make Race: Teaching Latinx Racialization in America (Harvard Education Press, 2025)
In today’s classrooms, talking about, teaching, or even celebrating racial diversity have been shunned. At a moment when our nation’s
Book Review: Felecia S. Russell, Amplifying Black Undocumented Student Voices in Higher Education (2024, Routledge)
Felecia Russell’s groundbreaking book, Amplifying Black Undocumented Student Voices in Higher Education, powerfully centers the perspectives of self-identified Black undocumented
Humanity, Queerness, and Afro-Latinidad in Alejandro Heredia’s Loca (2025): A Conversation with the Author
With the publication of his literary debut in February 2025, Alejandro Heredia has established himself as a compelling new voice
Book Review: Jason Ruiz, Narcomedia: Latinidad, Popular Culture, and America’s War on Drugs (2023, University of Texas Press)
Jason Ruiz’s Narcomedia: Latinidad, Popular Culture, and America’s War on Drugs is a smart, layered pleasure to read. Within
Interview with Sarah McNamara, author of Ybor City: Crucible of the Latina South
Latinx Talk Editorial Board member Perla Guerrero interviews Sarah McNamara, author of Ybor City: Crucible of the Latina South, winner
Interview with Felipe Hinojosa, Author of Apostles of Change (University of Texas Press)
Apostles of Change: Latino Radical Politics, Church Occupations, and the Fight to Save the Barrio by Felipe Hinojosa (University of
Review of Los huecos del agua
Riven by disagreements involving education policy, migrant rights, and a Supreme Court emboldened by a new balance of power, the
Interview with Yajaira M. Padilla, Author of From Threatening Guerrillas to Forever Illegals (University of Texas Press, 2022)
Interview conducted on May 3, 2023. Theresa Delgadillo: Why did you write From Threatening Guerrillas to Forever illegals? Yajaira
Interview with Tanya Katerí Hernández, Author of Racial Innocence
Latinx Talk: Why did you write Racial Innocence: Unmasking Latino Anti-Black Bias and the Struggle for Equality? Tanya Katerí Hernández: At
A Conversation with Stephanie Fetta on Shaming into Brown
Watch and listen to our interview with Dr. Stephanie Fetta, author of the award-winning book, Shaming into Brown: Somatic Transactions
Book Review: Karen Jaime, The Queer Nuyorican: Racialized Sexualities and Aesthetics in Loisaida (NYU Press, 2021)
Review by Regina Marie Mills, Texas A&M University Karen Jaime’s The Queer Nuyorican begins with her own experience at the
The Voices of “La Brega: Stories of the Puerto Rican Experience”
“Brega pana, dale.” This sentence may appear nonsensical to many readers, even those who consider Spanish their first language. Yet
A conversation with Allyson P. Brantley on her new book, Brewing a Boycott: How a Grassroots Coalition Fought Coors and Remade American Consumer Activism
Dr. Allyson P. Brantley is an Assistant Professor of History & Director of Honors and Interdisciplinary Initiatives at the University
A Conversation with Professor Larry La Fountain-Stokes on his new book, Translocas: The Politics of Puerto Rican Drag and Trans Performance
Larry La Fountain-Stokes is Professor of Spanish, American Culture, and Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Michigan. In
A Conversation with historian Max Krochmal on his award winning book, Blue Texas: The Making of a Multiracial Democratic Coalition in the Civil Rights Era
Dr. Max Krochmal is an associate professor of history at Texas Christian University. He won the Organization of American Historians’s Frederick
A conversation with Martha Gonzalez, author of Chican@ Artivistas: Music, Community, and Transborder Tactics in East Los Angeles (University of Texas Press, 2020)
Dr. Martha Gonzalez is an Associate Professor of Chicana/o and Latina/o Studies at Scripps/Claremont College and author of the new
Interview with Lara Medina, co-editor of Voices from the Ancestors and Beyond: Chicanx/Latinx Spiritual Expressions and Healing Practices (University of Arizona Press, 2019)
LT: What prepared you all for the work you accomplish in Voices from the Ancestors? LM: My own spiritual journey
Interview with María DeGuzmán, Author of Understanding John Rechy (University of South Carolina Press, 2019)
Please tell us about yourself and what prepared you for the work you accomplish in Understanding John Rechy? I first
Interview with Geraldo Cadava, author of The Hispanic Republican: The Shaping of an American Political Identity, from Nixon to Trump (Ecco, 2020)
Latinx Talk: Please tell us about yourself and what prepared you for the work you accomplish in The Hispanic Republican? GC: I was
Interview with Patricia Zavella, author of The Movement for Reproductive Justice (NYU Press, 2020)
Latinx Talk: Please tell us about yourself and what prepared you for the work you accomplish in The Movement for Reproductive
Interview with Kevin Escudero, author of Organizing While Undocumented: Immigrant Youth’s Political Activism under the Law (NYU Press, 2020)
Latinx Talk: Tell us about yourself. Kevin Escudero: I am an assistant professor of American Studies and Ethnic Studies at
El Encuentro/The Encounter, A Review
March 2020 Latinx Talk Series on Latinx Migration Literature We recommend El Encuentro (English version The Encounter) by Rita Wirkala, a Young Adult
Migrants in the Land of Plenty
March 2020 Latinx Talk Special Series on Latinx Migration Literature American Copia: An Immigrant Epic (Arte Público Press, 2012) by
Transplanting the Tropics in Manhattan
March 2020 Latinx Talk Special Series on Latinx Migration Literature When the protagonist, Juan Marcos, in the opening pages of
Interview with Cynthia E. Orozco, Author of Agent of Change
Latinx Talk: Please tell us about yourself. Dr. Cynthia E. Orozco: My mother, Aurora E. Orozco, graduated from high school in