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Latino Studies
Interviews with scholars of Latinx Studies about their new books.
March 12, 2026
Mexico in Space
From Aztec sun stones to satellite launches, from muralist visions to dark sky parks, Mexico's engagement with outer space is fundamental to its ident…
March 10, 2026
Forging a Mexican People
Forging a Mexican People: Collective Subjectivities in Postrevolutionary Print Culture, 1917–1968 (University of Arizona Press, 2026) shows how illust…
March 3, 2026
Detroit Never Left
Detroit seemed to experience an explosive rebirth following its bankruptcy, the largest in US municipal history. It was as if the slate had been wiped…
February 22, 2026
Making the Latino South
The presence of Latinx people in the American South has long confounded the region's persistent racial binaries. In Making the Latino South: A History…
January 21, 2026
Brown and Blue
How police abuse ignited the Chicano movement in the Southwest Brown and Blue: Mexican Americans, Law Enforcement, and Civil Rights in the Southwest,…
January 19, 2026
Taco
Taco (Bloomsbury, 2025) is a deep dive into the most iconic Mexican food from the perspective of a Mexico City native. In a narrative that moves from …
January 16, 2026
The Truth About Immigration
Immigration is one of the most controversial topics in the United States―and everywhere else. Pundits, politicians, and the public usually depict immi…
December 21, 2025
Caught in the Current
Migration between the United States and Mexico is often compared to the river that runs along the border: a "flow" of immigrants, a "flood" of documen…
December 20, 2025
The Latino Threat
News media and pundits too frequently perpetuate the notion that Latinos, both US-born and immigrants, are an invading force bent on destroying the Am…
December 16, 2025
Carnalities
How can habits of racialization be affected by art, in its reception and its creation? How can a carnal aesthetics help us understand Latinx life? Wha…
December 8, 2025
The Succeeders
Dr. Andrea Flores’ most recent book, The Succeeders: How Immigrant Youth Are Transforming What It Means to Belong in America (University of California…
December 2, 2025
Geographies of Relation
Geographies of Relation: Diasporas and Borderlands in the Americas (U Michigan Press, 2024) offers a new lens for examining diaspora and borderlands t…
November 20, 2025
Avocado Dreams
For more than four generations, Salvadorans have made themselves at home in the greater Washington, D.C. metropolitan area and have transformed the re…
October 28, 2025
Disco's Revenge
In the wake of Disco Demolition Night in 1979—a cultural bonfire that seemed to signal the end of disco—something unexpected began to rise from Chicag…
October 19, 2025
Cuba
“No country is ever just one thing.” In her new book Cuba: An American History (Scribner, 2021), NYU historian Ada Ferrer shows this again and again. …
September 30, 2025
MeXicana Roots and Routes
Community voices are often an underrepresented aspect of our historical and cultural knowledge of the U.S. Southwest. In this episode, we sit down wit…
August 28, 2025
Reading, Writing, and Revolution
Debates about Ethnic Studies in K-12 and Higher Education have highlighted the importance of culturally inclusive pedagogy in schools. Despite discuss…
August 26, 2025
Manufacturing Celebrity
While Hollywood’s images present a veneer of fantasy for some, the work to create such images is far from escapism. In Manufacturing Celebrity: Latino…
August 19, 2025
Disco's "Latin Tinge"
In the 1930s, musician Ferdinand “Jelly Roll” Morton identified the influence of Latin American rhythms like the habanera in jazz, as a sonic “tinge” …
August 18, 2025
Racial Resentment in the Political Mind
In Racial Resentment in the Political Mind, Darren W. Davis and David C. Wilson challenge the commonly held notion that all racial negativity, disagre…