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C. J. Alvarez, “Border Land, Border Water: A History of Construction on the US-Mexico Divide” (U Texas Press, 2019)

C. J. Alvarez
Border Land, Border Water
A History of Construction on the US-Mexico Divide
University of Texas Press, 2019

New Books in American Studies New Books in Environmental Studies New Books in History New Books in Latin American Studies New Books in Latino Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Science & Technology New Books Network January 3, 2020 Jonathan Cortez

Recent debates over the building of a border wall on the U.S.-Mexico divide have raised logistical and ethical issues, leaving the historical record of border building uninvoked. A recent book, written by UT Austin professor Dr. C.J. Alvarez, offers an over one-hundred-year history that extends to before the building of... Read More

Benjamin Francis-Fallon, “The Rise of the Latino Vote: A History” (Harvard UP, 2019)

Benjamin Francis-Fallon
The Rise of the Latino Vote
A History
Harvard University Press, 2019

New Books in American Studies New Books in History New Books in Latino Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Political Science New Books in Politics New Books in Politics & Society New Books Network December 31, 2019 Jaime Sánchez and Jr.

While media pundits continually speculate over the future leanings of the so-called “Latino vote,” Benjamin Francis-Fallon historicizes how Latinos were imagined into a national electoral constituency in his new book The Rise of the Latino Vote: A History (Harvard University Press, 2019). Francis-Fallon, Assistant Professor of History at Western Carolina... Read More

Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia
Banned
Immigration Enforcement in the Time of Trump
NYU Press, 2019

New Books in American Studies New Books in Latino Studies New Books in Law New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Public Policy New Books Network December 30, 2019 Democracy Works

Immigration is one of the most complex issues of our time in the United States and around the world. Enforcing immigration law in the U.S. involves a mix of courts and executive agencies with lots of opportunities for confusion, miscommunication, and changes in approach from administration to administration. While these... Read More

William D. Lopez, “Separated: Family and Community in the Aftermath of an Immigration Raid” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2019)

William D. Lopez
Separated
Family and Community in the Aftermath of an Immigration Raid
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019

New Books in American Studies New Books in Anthropology New Books in Latino Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Public Policy New Books in Sociology New Books Network December 9, 2019 Sarah E. Patterson

What happens to families and communities after immigration raids? William D. Lopez answers this question and more in his new book Separated: Family & Community in the Aftermath of an Immigration Raid (Johns Hopkins UP, 2019). Using ethnographic methods and interviews to deep dive into the aftermath of a local... Read More

S. Deborah Kang, “The INS on the Line: Making Immigration Law on the US-Mexico Border, 1917-1954” (Oxford UP, 2017)

S. Deborah Kang
The INS on the Line
Making Immigration Law on the US-Mexico Border, 1917-1954
Oxford University Press, 2019

New Books in American Studies New Books in History New Books in Latin American Studies New Books in Latino Studies New Books in Law New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books Network November 11, 2019 Derek Litvak

Today I talked to S. Deborah Kang about her book The INS on the Line: Making Immigration Law on the US-Mexico Border, 1917-1954, published by Oxford University Press in 2017. The INS on the Line explores the history behind Immigration and Naturalization Service throughout the 20th Century, interrogating how this... Read More

Jonathan Rosa, “Looking like a Language, Sounding like a Race” (Oxford UP, 2019)

Jonathan Rosa
Looking like a Language, Sounding like a Race
Raciolinguistic Ideologies and the Learning of Latinidad
Oxford University Press, 2019

New Books in American Studies New Books in Anthropology New Books in Language New Books in Latino Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Sociology New Books Network November 4, 2019 Carrie Gillon and Megan Figueroa

Jonathan Rosa‘s new book Looking like a Language, Sounding like a Race: Raciolinguistic Ideologies and the Learning of Latinidad (Oxford University Press, 2019) examines the emergence of linguistic and ethnoracial categories in the context of Latinidad. The book draws from more than twenty-four months of ethnographic and sociolinguistic fieldwork in... Read More

Perla Guerrero, “Nuevo South: Asians, Latinas/os, and the Remaking of Place” (U Texas Press, 2017)

Perla Guerrero
Nuevo South
Asians, Latinas/os, and the Remaking of Place
University of Texas Press, 2017

New Books in American Studies New Books in Asian American Studies New Books in History New Books in Latino Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in the American South October 31, 2019 Derek Litvak

Perla Guerrero is the author of Nuevo South: Asians, Latinas/os, and the Remaking of Place (University of Texas Press, 2017). Nuevo South explores the history of an ever diversifying U.S. South by examining the mixed reactions refugees, immigrants, and migrants, from different countries, received in Arkansas in the latter half... Read More