New Books Network Podcast

Latino Studies November 12, 2023

Making the Latino South

A History of Racial Formation

Cecilia Márquez

Hosted by Anna Lindner

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 of Racial Formation (UNC Press, 2023) …

Sociology October 29, 2023

Urban Specters

The Everyday Harms of Racial Capitalism

Sarah Mayorga

Hosted by Richard Ocejo

Racial capitalism, invisible but threaded throughout the world, shapes our lives. Focusing on the experiences of white, Black, and Latinx residents of Cincinnati, Sarah Mayorga argues that residents' interpretations of their …

Anthropology October 27, 2023

Crossing Waters

Undocumented Migration in Hispanophone Caribbean and Latinx Literature and Art

Marisel C. Moreno

Hosted by Reighan Gillam

Debates over the undocumented migration of Latin Americans invariably focus on the southern US border, but most migrants never cross that arbitrary line. Instead, many travel, via water, among the …

Caribbean Studies October 15, 2023

Cuba and Puerto Rico

Transdisciplinary Approaches to History, Literature, and Culture

Carmen Haydée Rivera and Jorge Duany

Hosted by Anna Lindner

Carmen Haydée Rivera and Jorge Duany's edited volume Cuba and Puerto Rico: Transdisciplinary Approaches to History, Literature, and Culture (U Florida Press, 2023) is the first systematic, comparative study of Cuba …

Latin American Studies October 13, 2023

The House on G Street

A Cuban Family Saga

Lisandro Pérez

Hosted by Katie Coldiron

In The House on G Street: A Cuban Family Saga (NYU Press, 2023), award-winning author Lisandro Pérez tells Cuba’s story through the lens of a single family: his own. His …

Asian American Studies October 4, 2023

Warring Genealogies

Race, Kinship, and the Korean War

Joo Ok Kim

Hosted by Ann Choi

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“[W]hat is our relationship to the Korean War and to the affinities” of different institutions that produce knowledge about the Korean War? (130) In her book, Warring Genealogies: Race, Kinship …

Music September 14, 2023

Dreams in Double Time

On Race, Freedom, and Bebop

Jonathan Leal

Hosted by Nathan Smith

In Dreams in Double Time: On Race, Freedom, and Bebop (Duke UP, 2023), Jonathan Leal examines how the musical revolution of bebop opened up new futures for racialized and minoritized …

Mobilities and Methods September 12, 2023

Unsettling

The El Paso Massacre, Resurgent White Nationalism, and the US-Mexico Border

Gilberto Rosas

Hosted by Alize Arıcan

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On August 3, 2019, a far-right extremist committed a deadly mass shooting at a major shopping center in El Paso, Texas, a city on the border of the United States …

Latino Studies September 8, 2023

The Strikers of Coachella

A Rank-And-File History of the UFW Movement

Christian O. Paiz

Hosted by David-James Gonzales

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The past decades have borne witness to the United Farm Workers' (UFW) tenacious hold on the country's imagination. Since 2008, the UFW has lent its rallying cry to a presidential …

Sports September 6, 2023

Daybreak at Chavez Ravine

Fernandomania and the Remaking of the Los Angeles Dodgers

Erik Sherman

Hosted by Caleb Zakarin

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Fernando Valenzuela was only twenty years old when Tom Lasorda chose him as the Dodgers' opening-day starting pitcher in 1981. Born in the remote Mexican town of Etchohuaquila, the left-hander …

Political Science August 31, 2023

The Walls Within

The Politics of Immigration in Modern America

Sarah R. Coleman

Hosted by Lilly Goren

Sarah Coleman, an historian at Texas State University, is the author of an important and topical book about immigration policy in the United States. The Walls Within: The Politics of …

Sociology August 27, 2023

Engage and Evade

How Latino Immigrant Families Manage Surveillance in Everyday Life

Asad L. Asad

Hosted by Kendall Dinniene

Because immigration is such a recurring-and divisive-topic in the United States, it is easy to assume that we understand what it means for an immigrant to live under the specter …

Education August 25, 2023

Suddenly Diverse

How School Districts Manage Race and Inequality

Erica O. Turner

Hosted by Joao Souto-Maior

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For the past five years, American public schools have enrolled more students identified as Black, Latinx, American Indian, and Asian than white. At the same time, more than half of …

Public Policy August 16, 2023

On the Basis of Race

How Higher Education Navigates Affirmative Action Policies

Lauren S. Foley

Hosted by Stephen Pimpare

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Diversity in higher education is under attack as the Supreme Court limits the use of race-conscious admissions practices at American colleges and universities. In On the Basis of Race: How Higher …

Anthropology July 29, 2023

After Stories

Transnational Intimacies of Postwar El Salvador

Irina Carlota Silber

Hosted by Alize Arıcan

After Stories: Transnational Intimacies of Postwar El Salvador (Stanford UP, 2022) builds upon Irina Carlota [Lotti] Silber's nearly 25 years of ethnographic research centered in Chalatenango, El Salvador, to follow the …

Latino Studies July 29, 2023

Solidarity Across the Americas

The Puerto Rican Nationalist Party and Anti-Imperialism

Margaret M. Power

Hosted by Caleb Zakarin

Throughout its quest for freedom from colonial rule, the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party (PNPR) created strategy through a solidarity that moved far beyond the archipelago. It invested significant energy, members …

Latino Studies July 28, 2023

Brown Neon

Raquel Gutiérrez

Hosted by Geraldo Cadava

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Writing Latinos, from Public Books, features interviews with Latino (a/x/e) authors discussing their books and how their writing contributes to the ever-changing conversation about the meanings of latinidad. In this …

Latino Studies July 26, 2023

Our Migrant Souls

A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of “Latino”

Héctor Tobar

Hosted by Geraldo Cadava

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Writing Latinos, from Public Books, features interviews with Latino (a/x/e) authors. We discuss their books and how their writing contributes to the ever-changing conversation about the meanings of latinidad. We …

Latino Studies July 24, 2023

The Town of Babylon

A Novel

Alejandro Varela

Hosted by Geraldo Cadava

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Writing Latinos, from Public Books, features interviews with Latino (a/x/e) authors discussing their books and how their writing contributes to the ever-changing conversation about the meanings of latinidad. In this …

Academic Life July 20, 2023

Sharing Lessons From His Working-Class Parents

A Conversation with Dr. Jorge Juan Rodríguez

Jorge Juan Rodríguez

Hosted by Christina Gessler

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Why are students encouraged to move far from home and family, to attend “the best school”? Why aren’t the emotional and physical costs of this disclosed to students and their …