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Jia Lynn Yang, “One Mighty and Irresistible Tide: The Epic Struggle Over American Immigration, 1924–1965” (Norton, 2020)
Jia Lynn Yang
One Mighty and Irresistible Tide
The Epic Struggle Over American Immigration, 1924–1965
W. W. Norton & Company, 2020

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in Asian American StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Latino StudiesNew Books in LawNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network May 14, 2020 Ian Shin

In One Mighty and Irresistible Tide: The Epic Struggle Over American Immigration, 1924–1965 (W. W. Norton & Company, 2020), Jia Lynn Yang recounts the personalities and debates that brought about the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act, which forms the foundation for modern U.S. immigration policy. Undoing the xenophobic national origins... Read More
Cynthia E. Orozco, “Agent of Change: Adela Sloss-Vento, Mexican American Civil Rights Activist and Texas Feminist” (U Texas Press, 2020)
Cynthia E. Orozco
Agent of Change
Adela Sloss-Vento, Mexican American Civil Rights Activist and Texas Feminist
University of Texas Press, 2020

New Books in BiographyNew Books in Gender StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Latino StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network April 16, 2020 Tiffany Jasmin González

In Agent of Change: Adela Sloss-Vento, Mexican American Civil Rights Activist and Texas Feminist (University of Texas Press, 2020), Cynthia E. Orozco traces the life of Adela Sloss-Vento, a twentieth-century Mexican American woman civil rights activist in Texas. In this episode, Orozco discusses the way Sloss-Vento constructed a modern gendered... Read More
David G. García, “Strategies of Segregation: Race, Residence, and the Struggle for Educational Equality” (U California Press, 2018)
David G. García
Strategies of Segregation
Race, Residence, and the Struggle for Educational Equality
University of California Press, 2018

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in EducationNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Latino StudiesNew Books in LawNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & Society April 9, 2020 David-James Gonzales

Most Americans have a limited understanding of the history of segregation in the United States. While many are taught that segregation was as an institution of social control that dominated Southern society, economics, and politics from the late nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth century, a much smaller... Read More
John Weber, “From South Texas to the Nation: The Exploitation of Mexican Labor in the Twentieth Century” (UNC Press, 2015)
John Weber
From South Texas to the Nation
The Exploitation of Mexican Labor in the Twentieth Century
University of North Carolina Press, 2015

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Latino StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in the American SouthNew Books in the American West March 20, 2020 Beth A. English

John Weber, Assistant Professor of History at Old Dominion University, discusses his book, From South Texas to the Nation: The Exploitation of Mexican Labor in the Twentieth Century (University of North Carolina Press, 2015), migrant agricultural labor, immigration policy, and the long-term impacts of the labor relations model that developed... Read More
A. K. Sandoval-Strausz, “Barrio America: How Latino Immigrants Saved the American City” (Basic Books, 2019)
A. K. Sandoval-Strausz
Barrio America
How Latino Immigrants Saved the American City
Basic Books, 2019

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Latino StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network February 12, 2020 Tiffany Jasmin González

In A. K. Sandoval-Strausz’s recent work, Barrio America: How Latino Immigrants Saved the American City (Basic Books, 2019), ties together a magnificent story of Latinos migrating to Chicago and Dallas, and the positive effect immigration and cultural heritage has on urban America. Latinos are often viewed on the sidelines of... Read More
Mario T. García, “Father Luis Olivares, A Biography: Faith Politics and the Origins of the Sanctuary Movement in Los Angeles” (UNC Press, 2018)
Mario T. García
Father Luis Olivares, A Biography
Faith Politics and the Origins of the Sanctuary Movement in Los Angeles
University of North Carolina Press, 2018

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in BiographyNew Books in Christian StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Latino StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books Network February 11, 2020 David-James Gonzales

As the leader of the Sanctuary Movement in Los Angeles during the 1980s, Father Luis Olivares brazenly defied local Catholic authorities and the federal government by publicly offering sanctuary to Central American migrants fleeing political violence and civil war, and later extending it to undocumented Mexican immigrants unable to legalize... 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 February 3, 2020 Tyesha Maddox

In the late nineteenth century, a small group of Cubans and Puerto Ricans of African descent settled in the segregated tenements of New York City. At an immigrant educational society in Greenwich Village, these early Afro-Latino New Yorkers taught themselves to be poets, journalists, and revolutionaries. At the same time,... Read More
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 StudiesNew Books in Environmental StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Latin American StudiesNew Books in Latino StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew 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

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