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Miroslava Chávez-García, “Migrant Longing: Letter Writing across the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands” (UNC Press, 2018)
Miroslava Chávez-García
Migrant Longing
Letter Writing across the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
University of North Carolina Press, 2018

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Latin American StudiesNew Books in Latino StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network September 17, 2019 Derek Litvak

Miroslava Chávez-García is the author of Migrant Longing: Letter Writing across the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, published by the University of North Carolina Press in 2018. Migrant Longing is a history of migration, courtship, and identity across the U.S.-Mexican border, documenting the intimate lives of ordinary migrants and immigrants. Drawing on a... Read More
Bernardo Ramirez Rios, “Transnational Sport in the American West: Oaxaca California Basketball” (Lexington Books, 2019)
Bernardo Ramirez Rios
Transnational Sport in the American West
Oaxaca California Basketball
Lexington Books, 2019

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in AnthropologyNew Books in Latin American StudiesNew Books in Latino StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Sports September 9, 2019 Jorge Iber

The game of basketball is not necessarily associated with Mexicans or Mexican Americans.  In Mexico, soccer (futbol) is the number one sport, followed by baseball.   There is even professional (and collegiate) American football. In some parts of the country, however, due to the geography, another sport, hoops has become a... Read More
Cecilia Caballero et al. “The Chicana M(other)work Anthology: Porque Sin Madres No Hay Revolucion” (U Arizona Press, 2019)
Cecilia Caballero et al.
The Chicana M(other)work Anthology
Porque Sin Madres No Hay Revolucion
University of Arizona Press, 2019

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in EducationNew Books in Gender StudiesNew Books in Latino StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in SociologyNew Books Network August 28, 2019 David-James Gonzales

In The Chicana M(other)work Anthology: Porque Sin Madres No Hay Revolucion (University of Arizona Press, 2019) editors Cecilia Caballero, Yvette Martinez-Vu, Judith Perez-Torres, Michelle Tellez, and Christine Vega, bring together a diverse collective of Women of Color Mother-Scholars to end the silence experienced by Mothers of Color in academia. In... Read More
Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof, “Racial Migrations: New York City and the Revolutionary Politics of the Spanish Caribbean” (Princeton UP, 2019)
Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof
Racial Migrations
New York City and the Revolutionary Politics of the Spanish Caribbean
Princeton University Press, 2019

New Books in African American StudiesNew Books in American StudiesNew Books in Caribbean StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Latino StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network August 27, 2019 Jaime Sánchez and Jr.

In his new book, Racial Migrations: New York City and the Revolutionary Politics of the Spanish Caribbean (Princeton University Press, 2019), historian Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof seamlessly ties together various scholarly subfields into a truly transnational history of anticolonial politics and the Afro-Latino diaspora in the United States. Hoffnung-Garskof, Professor of History... Read More
Monica Muñoz Martinez, “The Injustice Never Leaves You: Anti-Mexican Violence in Texas” (Harvard UP, 2018)
Monica Muñoz Martinez
The Injustice Never Leaves You
Anti-Mexican Violence in Texas
Harvard University Press, 2018

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Latin American StudiesNew Books in Latino StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in the American WestNew Books Network July 29, 2019 Stephen Hausmann

On January 28, 1918, just outside of town of Porvenir, Texas, US Army servicemen, Texas Rangers, and civilians murdered 15 unarmed Mexican men and boys. This massacre was not an aberration, writes Monica Muñoz Martinez, the Stanley J. Bernstein Assistant Professor of American Studies and Ethnic Studies at Brown University... Read More
Gabriela González, “Redeeming La Raza: Transborder Modernity, Race, Respectability and Rights” (Oxford UP, 2018)
Gabriela González
Redeeming La Raza
Transborder Modernity, Race, Respectability and Rights
Oxford University Press, 2018

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Latin American StudiesNew Books in Latino StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network July 29, 2019 Tiffany Jasmin González

Tiffany Jasmin González speaks with Dr. Gabriela González about her award-winning book, Redeeming La Raza: Transborder Modernity, Race, Respectability and Rights (Oxford University Press, 2018) to talk about the strategies transborder activists used to redeem la raza from body politic exclusion happening in the U.S. She finds that middle-class Mexican... Read More
Jennifer A. Jones, “The Browning of the New South” (U Chicago Press, 2019)
Jennifer A. Jones
The Browning of the New South

University of Chicago Press, 2019

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in AnthropologyNew Books in Latino StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in SociologyNew Books in the American SouthNew Books Network July 24, 2019 Jaime Sánchez Jr.

The dawn of the new millennium bore witness to an unprecedented transformation of the population in the Southeastern United States as evidenced by Dr. Jennifer A. Jones in her new book The Browning of the New South (University of Chicago Press, 2019). Jones, an Assistant Professor of Sociology as well... Read More