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Book Review: Karen Jaime,The Queer Nuyorican: Racialized Sexualities and Aesthetics in Loisaida (NYU Press, 2021)

June 22, 2022Regina Marie Mills Reviews Leave a comment

Review by Regina Marie Mills, Texas A&M University Karen Jaime’s The Queer Nuyorican begins with her own experience at the

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A conversation with Allyson P. Brantley on her new book, Brewing a Boycott: How a Grassroots Coalition Fought Coors and Remade American Consumer Activism

September 20, 2021Allyson P. Brantley Reviews Leave a comment

Dr. Allyson P. Brantley is an Assistant Professor of History & Director of Honors and Interdisciplinary Initiatives at the University

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A Conversation with Professor Larry La Fountain-Stokes on his new book, Translocas: The Politics of Puerto Rican Drag and Trans Performance

July 14, 2021Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes Reviews Leave a comment

Larry La Fountain-Stokes is Professor of Spanish, American Culture, and Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Michigan. In

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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

May 17, 2021Felipe Hinojosa Reviews Leave a comment

Dr. Max Krochmal is an associate professor of history at Texas Christian University. He won the Organization of American Historians’s Frederick

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A conversation with Martha Gonzalez, author of Chican@ Artivistas: Music, Community, and Transborder Tactics in East Los Angeles (University of Texas Press, 2020)

October 29, 2020Martha Gonzalez Reviews Leave a comment

Dr. Martha Gonzalez is an Associate Professor of Chicana/o and Latina/o Studies at Scripps/Claremont College and author of the new

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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)

October 13, 2020Lara Medina Reviews Leave a comment

LT: What prepared you all for the work you accomplish in Voices from the Ancestors? LM: My own spiritual journey

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Book cover of "Understanding Johny Rechy": includes a black and white photo of Johny Rechy sitting at a desk with a typewriter facing the photographer

Interview with María DeGuzmán, Author of Understanding John Rechy (University of South Carolina Press, 2019)

September 2, 2020María DeGuzmán Reviews Leave a comment

Please tell us about yourself and what prepared you for the work you accomplish in Understanding John Rechy? I first

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Interview with Geraldo Cadava, author of The Hispanic Republican: The Shaping of an American Political Identity, from Nixon to Trump (Ecco, 2020)

July 3, 2020Geraldo Cadava Reviews Leave a comment

Latinx Talk: Please tell us about yourself and what prepared you for the work you accomplish in The Hispanic Republican? GC: I was

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Cover of the book, The Movement for Reproductive Justice. Photo includes women activists gathered together holding a megaphone and protest signs.

Interview with Patricia Zavella, author of The Movement for Reproductive Justice (NYU Press, 2020)

July 1, 2020Patricia Zavella Reviews Leave a comment

Latinx Talk: Please tell us about yourself and what prepared you for the work you accomplish in The Movement for Reproductive

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Interview with Kevin Escudero, author of Organizing While Undocumented: Immigrant Youth’s Political Activism under the Law (NYU Press, 2020)

May 19, 2020Kevin Escudero Reviews Leave a comment

Latinx Talk: Tell us about yourself. Kevin Escudero: I am an assistant professor of American Studies and Ethnic Studies at

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El Encuentro by Rita Wirkala

El Encuentro/The Encounter, A Review

March 27, 2020Diane Lindner and Teresa Luengo Cid Latinx Literature, Reviews Leave a comment

March 2020 Latinx Talk Series on Latinx Migration Literature We recommend El Encuentro (English version The Encounter) by Rita Wirkala, a Young Adult

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Migrants in the Land of Plenty

March 19, 2020Maceo Montoya Reviews Leave a comment

March 2020 Latinx Talk Special Series on Latinx Migration Literature American Copia: An Immigrant Epic (Arte Público Press, 2012) by

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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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Interview with Cynthia E. Orozco, Author of Agent of Change

February 18, 2020Cynthia E. Orozco Reviews Leave a comment

Latinx Talk: Please tell us about yourself. Dr. Cynthia E. Orozco: My mother, Aurora E. Orozco, graduated from high school in

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Interview With Frances Aparicio, Author of Negotiating Latinidad: Intralatina/o Lives in Chicago

November 19, 2019Latinx Talk and Frances Aparicio Reviews Leave a comment

Latinx Talk: Tell us about yourself. Frances Aparicio: After thirty-five years of teaching, scholarship and administrative leadership in Latinx Studies

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Interview with Ernesto Javier Martínez, Author of When We Love Someone We Sing To Them/ Cuando Amamos Cantamos

February 19, 2019Latinx Talk and Ernesto Javier Martínez Reviews Leave a comment

Latinx Talk: Tell us about yourself. Ernesto Javier Martínez: I am a tenured faculty member in the Department of Ethnic

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Interview with Andrea-Teresa Arenas and Eloisa Gómez, Authors of Somos Latinas

June 12, 2018Latinx Talk, Andrea-Teresa Arenas and Eloisa Gómez Reviews Leave a comment

Latinx Talk: Tell us about yourselves. Eloisa Gómez: I am second-generation Chicana from Milwaukee, WI. I have been active in the

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Interview with A. Naomi Paik, Author of Rightlessness: Testimony and Redress in U.S. Prison Camps since WWII

April 24, 2018Latinx Talk and A. Naomi Paik Reviews Leave a comment

Latinx Talk: Tell us about yourself. A. Naomi Paik: I’m currently a teacher and scholar of comparative and intersectional ethnic

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Interview with Sylvanna Falcón, Author of Power Interrupted

March 27, 2018Latinx Talk and Sylvanna Falcón Reviews Leave a comment

Latinx Talk: Tell us about yourself. Sylvanna Falcón: On the professional level, I am an Associate Professor of Latin American and

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