New Books in Latino Studies
Bernard Fraga, “The Turnout Gap: Race, Ethnicity, and Political Inequality in a Diversifying America” (Cambridge UP, 2018)
Bernard Fraga
The Turnout Gap
Race, Ethnicity, and Political Inequality in a Diversifying America
Cambridge University Press, 2018

New Books in African American StudiesNew Books in American StudiesNew Books in Latino StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Political ScienceNew Books in PoliticsNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network November 12, 2018 Heath Brown

Following a historic election, we return again to the question of turnout. Who turned out in large numbers to shift power in the House back to the Democrats? What we know about the past is that there are substantial gaps in turnout between different groups. White Americans have turned out... Read More
Lisandro Perez, “Sugar, Cigars and Revolution: The Making of Cuban New York” (NYU Press, 2018)
Lisandro Perez
Sugar, Cigars and Revolution
The Making of Cuban New York
NYU Press, 2018

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in Caribbean StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Latin American StudiesNew Books in Latino StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network November 1, 2018 Beth Harpaz

A new book reveals an incredible slice of Cuban-American history that’s been all but forgotten until now. Lisandro Perez‘s Sugar, Cigars and Revolution: The Making of Cuban New York (NYU Press, 2018) tells the story of a vibrant Cuban émigré community in 19th-century New York that ranged from wealthy sugar plantation owners investing... Read More
Andrew M. Busch, “City in a Garden: Environmental Transformations and Racial Justice in Twentieth-Century Austin, Texas” (UNC Press, 2017)
Andrew M. Busch
City in a Garden
Environmental Transformations and Racial Justice in Twentieth-Century Austin, Texas
University of North Carolina Press, 2017

New Books in African American StudiesNew Books in Environmental StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Latino StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in the American WestNew Books Network October 16, 2018 Stephen Hausmann

Austin, Texas has a reputation as a vibrant, youthful capital city buoyed economically and culturally by the University of Texas. In City in a Garden: Environmental Transformations and Racial Justice in Twentieth-Century Austin, Texas (University of North Carolina Press, 2017), Andrew M. Busch argues that this identity was consciously constructed over... Read More
Janelle Wong, “Immigrants, Evangelicals, and Politics in an Era of Demographic Change” (Russell Sage Foundation, 2018)
Janelle Wong
Immigrants, Evangelicals, and Politics in an Era of Demographic Change

Russell Sage Foundation, 2018

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in Asian American StudiesNew Books in Latino StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Political ScienceNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in ReligionNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books Network September 21, 2018 Heath Brown

Surprising to many, white Evangelicals voted for Donald Trump in the 2016 election at a higher rate than any candidate in the previous four presidential elections. At the same time, the Evangelical community is changing, becoming more racially and ethnically diverse. How will this new diversity change Evangelical politics, if... Read More
Stephanie Elizondo Griest, “All the Agents and Saints: Dispatches from the U.S. Borderlands” (UNC Press, 2017)
Stephanie Elizondo Griest
All the Agents and Saints
Dispatches from the U.S. Borderlands
University of North Caroina Press, 2017

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in Drugs, Addiction and RecoveryNew Books in Latino StudiesNew Books in LiteratureNew Books in Native American StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books Network September 6, 2018 David-James Gonzales

In the United States, contemporary discourse concerning “the border” almost always centers around the country’s southern boundary shared with Mexico. Rarely, in conversations public or private among Americans is there any discussion of the nation’s northern border with Canada. Whatever the reason (ignorance, indifference, or both) all this changes with... Read More

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