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Latino Studies
Education June 7, 2023

Willful Defiance

The Movement to Dismantle the School-to-Prison Pipeline

Mark R. Warren

Hosted by Laura Kelly
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The story of how Black and Brown parents, students and members of low-income communities of color organized to dismantle the school-to-prison pipeline in their local schools and built a movement …

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Interviews with scholars of Latinx Studies about their new books.

General History May 12, 2023

Contracting Freedom

Race, Empire, and U.S. Guestworker Programs

Maria L. Quintana

Hosted by Michael Vann
Contracting Freedom: Race, Empire, and U.S. Guestworker Programs (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022) explores the origins of twentieth-century U.S. guestworker programs from Mexico and the Caribbean. It investigates these government-sponsored programs …
American Studies May 4, 2023

White Borders

The History of Race and Immigration in the United States from Chinese Exclusion to the Border Wall

Reece Jones

Hosted by Nicole Trujillo-Pagan
Recent racist anti-immigration policies, from the border wall to the Muslim ban, have left many Americans wondering: How did we get here? In White Borders: The History of Race and …
Latino Studies May 3, 2023

High-Risk Homosexual

A Memoir

Edgar Gomez

Hosted by Geraldo Cadava
Writing Latinos, from Public Books, is a new podcast featuring interviews with Latino (a/x/e) authors discussing their books and how their writing contributes to the ever-changing conversation about the meanings …
Literary Studies April 30, 2023

The Bard in the Borderlands

An Anthology of Shakespeare Appropriations en la Frontera

Katherine Gillen, Adrianna M. Santos, and Kathryn Vomero Santos

Hosted by John Yargo
First performed in the Milagro Theater of Portland, Oregon in 2014, Olga Sanchez Saltveit’s ¡O Romeo! imagines William Shakespeare, late in his life, writing a play set in Mexico about …
African American Studies April 28, 2023

To Tell a Black Story of Miami

Tatiana D. McInnis

Hosted by Deidre Tyler
In To Tell a Black Story of Miami (UP of Florida, 2022), Tatiana McInnis examines literary and cultural representations of Miami alongside the city's material realities to challenge the image …
Latino Studies April 19, 2023

Translating Blackness

Latinx Colonialities in Global Perspective

Lorgia García Peña

Hosted by Geraldo Cadava
Writing Latinos, from Public Books, is a new podcast featuring interviews with Latino (a/x/e) authors discussing their books and how their writing contributes to the ever-changing conversation about the meanings …
Latin American Studies March 11, 2023

Abandoning Their Beloved Land

The Politics of Bracero Migration in Mexico

Alberto García

Hosted by Rachel Newman
Abandoning Their Beloved Land: The Politics of Bracero Migration in Mexico (U California Press, 2023) offers an essential new history of the Bracero Program, a bilateral initiative that allowed Mexican …
Urban Studies March 7, 2023

Lilly

The First Latina Rockette

Lillian Colon

Hosted by James Wunsch
Lilly: The First Latina Rockette (Lilly Enterprises, 2021) is the improbable story of a Puerto Rican toddler, confined by her father for 15 years to a Bronx orphanage—the former Kennedy …
Peoples & Things March 6, 2023

Radio Broadcasting Along Mexico's Northern Border, 1930-1950

A Conversation with Sonia Robles

Sonia Robles

Hosted by Lee Vinsel
Sonia Robles, an assistant professor of history at the University of Delaware, talks about her book, Mexican Waves: Radio Broadcasting Along Mexico’s Northern Border, 1930-1950 (University of Arizona Press, 2019) …
Scholarly Communication March 4, 2023

Decolonizing American Spanish

Eurocentrism and the Limits of Foreignness in the Imperial Ecosystem

Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera

Hosted by Avi Staiman
Jeffrey joins the podcast to discuss the prevalence of English in the academic ecosystem and in research publishing. Jeffrey critiques the lackadaisical approach US institutions take towards Spanish language content …
Critical Theory February 17, 2023

We Are Cuba!

How a Revolutionary People Have Survived in a Post-Soviet World

Helen Yaffe

Hosted by Morteza Hajizadeh
In the aftermath of the fall of the Soviet Union, Cuba faced the start of a crisis that decimated its economy. Helen Yaffe examines the astonishing developments that took place …
American South February 15, 2023

Labor Journalism, Farmworkers, and Reynolds Tobacco

A Discussion with Journalist Victoria Bouloubasis

Victoria Bouloubasis

Hosted by Southern Labor Studies Association
Journalist Victoria Bouloubasis discusses her career reporting on agricultural and food labor in North Carolina, her approach to labor journalism, and how she uses histories in her work. "A North …
African American Studies February 10, 2023

Deflective Whiteness

Coopting Black and Latinx Identity Politics

Hannah Noel

Hosted by Omari Averette-Phillips
In Deflective Whiteness: Coopting Black and Latinx Identity Politics (Ohio State UP, 2022), Hannah Noel repositions Whiteness studies in relation to current discussions around racialized animus and White victimhood, demonstrating …
Academic Life February 9, 2023

We Are Not Dreamers

Undocumented Scholars Theorize Undocumented Life in the United States

Genevieve Negrón-Gonzales and Leisy J. Abrego

Hosted by Christina Gessler
Today’s book is: We Are Not Dreamers: Undocumented Scholars Theorize Undocumented Life in the United States. The “Dreamer narrative” celebrates the educational and economic achievements of undocumented youth to justify …
Latino Studies February 6, 2023

Transborder Los Angeles

An Unknown Transpacific History of Japanese-Mexican Relations

Yu Tokunaga

Hosted by David-James Gonzales
Focusing on Los Angeles farmland during the years between the Immigration Act of 1924 and the Japanese Internment in 1942, Transborder Los Angeles: An Unknown Transpacific History of Japanese-Mexican Relations …
Anthropology January 24, 2023

Undocumented Motherhood

Conversations on Love, Trauma, and Border Crossing

Elizabeth Farfán-Santos

Hosted by Reighan Gillam
Claudia Garcia crossed the border because her toddler, Natalia, could not hear. Leaving behind everything she knew in Mexico, Claudia recounts the terror of migrating alone with her toddler and …
Latino Studies January 14, 2023

Racial Innocence

Unmasking Latino Anti-Black Bias and the Struggle for Equality

Tanya Katerí Hernández

Hosted by Anna Lindner
Racial Innocence: Unmasking Latino Anti-Black Bias and the Struggle for Equality (Beacon Press, 2022) will challenge what you thought about racism and bias and demonstrate that it’s possible for a …
Critical Theory January 6, 2023

A Sense of Brutality

Philosophy after Narco-Culture

Carlos Alberto Sánchez

Hosted by Pamela Fuentes
Contemporary popular culture is riddled with references to Mexican drug cartels, narcos, and drug trafficking. In the United States, documentary filmmakers, journalists, academics, and politicians have taken note of the …
American West December 17, 2022

Cattle Beet Capital

Making Industrial Agriculture in Northern Colorado

Michael Weeks

Hosted by Troy Hallsell
In 1870 several hundred settlers arrived at a patch of land at the confluence of the South Platte and Cache la Poudre Rivers in Colorado Territory. Their planned agricultural community …