Help Support H-Net! | Visit New Books Network en Español!

New Books Network
Latino Studies
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 …

Latino Studies

Subscribe:

Interviews with scholars of Latinx Studies about their new books.

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 …
American West December 2, 2022

West Side Rising

How San Antonio's 1921 Flood Devastated a City and Sparked a Latino Environmental Justice Movement

Char Miller

Hosted by Stephen Hausmann
On September 9, 1921, a tropical storm raged above San Antonio, Texas. The rain that night flooded the city's many waterways, distributing unequal destruction throughout its many neighborhoods. For the whiter …
On Religion November 15, 2022

On Migrational Religion and the Latinx Diaspora

A Discussion with João Chaves and Arlene Sánchez-Walsh

João Chaves and Dr. Arlene Sánchez-Walsh

Hosted by Gregory Soden
Dr. João Chaves and Dr. Arlene Sánchez-Walsh discuss Brazil and the book Migrational Religion: Context and Creativity in the Latinx Diaspora, out now from Baylor University Press. …
On Religion November 14, 2022

On Mexican American Religions

A Discussion with Brett Hendrickson and Arlene Sánchez-Walsh

Brett Hendrickson and Arlene Sánchez-Walsh

Hosted by Gregory Soden
Dr. Arlene Sánchez-Walsh is in conversation with Dr. Brett Hendrickson on the book Mexican American Religions: An Introduction (Religion in America), out now from Routledge. …
On Religion November 11, 2022

On Meatpacking, Migration, and Faith

A Discussion with Kristy Nabhan-Warren and Arlene Sanchez Walsh

Kristy Nabhan-Warren and Arlene Sanchez Walsh

Hosted by Gregory Soden
Dr. Kristy Nabhan-Warren is the V. O. and Elizabeth Kahl Figge Chair of Catholic Studies and a professor in the Departments of Religious Studies and Gender, Women's, and Sexuality Studies …
Religion November 11, 2022

Heathen: Religion and Race in American History

Religion and Race in American History

Kathryn Gin Lum

Hosted by Piotr Kosicki
In Heathen: Religion and Race in American History (Harvard University Press, 2022), Kathryn Gin Lum shows how the idea of the “heathen” has been maintained from the colonial era to …
Politics & Polemics November 2, 2022

Chingona

Owning Your Inner Badass for Healing and Justice

Alma Zaragoza-Petty

Hosted by Galina Limorenko
In Chingona: Owning Your Inner Badass for Healing and Justice (Broadleaf Books, 2022), Mexican American activist, scholar, and podcast host Alma Zaragoza-Petty helps us claim our inner chingona, a Spanish …
On Religion November 1, 2022

On the Religion of 'The Young Lords'

A Discussion with Jorge Juan Rodríguez V

Jorge Juan Rodríguez V

Hosted by Gregory Soden
Jorge Juan Rodríguez V, the son of two Puerto Rican migrants, was raised by his mother, father, grandmother, and uncle in a small affordable housing community outside of Hartford, Connecticut …