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Andrea Benjamin, “Racial Coalition Building in Local Elections: Elite Cues and Cross-Ethnic Voting” (Cambridge UP, 2017)

Andrea Benjamin
Racial Coalition Building in Local Elections
Elite Cues and Cross-Ethnic Voting
Cambridge University Press, 2017

New Books in African American Studies New Books in American Studies New Books in Latino Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Political Science New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Public Policy New Books Network August 13, 2020 Lilly Goren

What explains voting behavior in local elections? More specifically, what explains how ethnic and racial blocs vote in local elections, especially when the candidate may be of a different race or ethnicity? These are the main question animating the research in Racial Coalition Building in Local Elections: Elite Cues and... Read More

Deborah E. Kanter, “Chicago Católico: Making Catholic Parishes Mexican” (U Illinois Press, 2020)

Deborah E. Kanter
Chicago Católico
Making Catholic Parishes Mexican
University of Illinois Press, 2020

New Books in American Studies New Books in Christian Studies New Books in History New Books in Latino Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Religion & Faith New Books in Sociology August 11, 2020 Jaime Sánchez Jr.

What happens when a new group of migrants enters not just the social and economic life of a city, but also its religious institutions? Deborah E. Kanter, the John S. Ludington Endowed Professor of History at Albion College, takes us through the dramatic demographic transformation of Chicago through the eyes... Read More

José Alamillo, “Deportes: The Making of a Sporting Mexican Diaspora” (Rutgers UP, 2020)

José Alamillo
Deportes
The Making of a Sporting Mexican Diaspora
Rutgers University Press, 2020

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 Sports August 7, 2020 Tiffany Jasmin González

In Deportes: The Making of a Sporting Mexican Diaspora (Rutgers University Press, 2020), Professor José Alamillo, a specialist in Chicana/o Studies, Labor, and Sports history, examines the powerful way Mexican Americans have used sports to build transnational networks for personal and community empowerment across the United States and Mexico before... Read More

Michael A. Olivas, “Perchance to DREAM: A Legal and Political History of the DREAM Act and DACA” (NYU Press, 2020)

Michael A. Olivas
Perchance to DREAM
A Legal and Political History of the DREAM Act and DACA
New York University Press, 2020

New Books in American Studies New Books in Latino Studies New Books in Law New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Political Science New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Public Policy New Books Network August 3, 2020 Susan Liebell

Why did the DREAM Act (for the Development, Relief, and Education of Alien Minors) never pass Congress – even though it was popular with Republicans and Democrats? What does the political and legal history tell us about American federalism? How is the legal history of the DREAM ACT and DACA... Read More

Verónica Martínez-Matsuda, “Migrant Citizenship: Race, Rights, and Reform in the U.S. Farm Labor Camp Program” (U Pennsylvania Press, 2020)

Verónica Martínez-Matsuda
Migrant Citizenship
Race, Rights, and Reform in the U.S. Farm Labor Camp Program
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020

New Books in American Studies New Books in History New Books in Latino Studies New Books in Law New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Public Policy July 27, 2020 Derek Litvak

Verónica Martínez-Matsuda about her book Migrant Citizenship: Race, Rights, and Reform in the U.S. Farm Labor Camp Program (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020). Migrant Citizenship exams the Farm Security Administration’s Migratory Labor Camp Program, and its role in the daily lives of a diverse number of farmworker families. Martínez-Matsuda thoroughly... Read More

Patricia Zavella
The Movement for Reproductive Justice
Empowering Women of Color through Social Activism
NYU Press, 2020

New Books in African American Studies New Books in Anthropology New Books in Gender Studies New Books in Latino Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Public Policy July 24, 2020 Isabel Machado

In The Movement for Reproductive Justice: Empowering Women of Color through Social Activism (NYU Press, 2020), Pat Zavella shows how reproductive justice organizations’ collaborative work across racial lines provides a compelling model for other groups to successfully influence change. In the context of the war on women’s reproductive rights and... Read More

Jennifer Domino Rudolph, “Baseball as Mediated Latinidad: Race, Masculinity, Nationalism, and Performances of Identity” (Ohio State UP, 2020)

Jennifer Domino Rudolph
Baseball as Mediated Latinidad
Race, Masculinity, Nationalism, and Performances of Identity
Ohio State University Press, 2020

NBN Book of the Day New Books in Caribbean Studies New Books in Gender Studies New Books in Latino Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Sociology New Books in Sports July 22, 2020 David-James Gonzales

In her incisive study Baseball as Mediated Latinidad: Race, Masculinity, Nationalism, and Performances of Identity (Ohio State University Press, 2020), Jennifer Domino Rudolph analyzes major league baseball’s Latin/o American players—who now make up more than twenty-five percent of MLB—as sites of undesirable surveillance due to the historical, political, and sociological weight placed... Read More

Kevin Escudero, “Organizing While Undocumented: Immigrant Youth’s Political Activism Under the Law” (NYU Press, 2020)

Kevin Escudero
Organizing While Undocumented
Immigrant Youth’s Political Activism Under the Law
New York University Press, 2020

New Books in American Studies New Books in Critical Theory New Books in Latino Studies New Books in Law New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Sociology July 20, 2020 Jonathan Cortez

Undocumented youth activists are at the forefront of the present-day immigrant rights movement. This is especially true surrounding the activism of the recent SCOTUS decision on DACA issued on June 18, 2020. Professor Kevin Escudero’s book, Organizing While Undocumented: Immigrant Youth’s Political Activism Under the Law (New York University Press, 2020), depicts just... Read More

Ismael Garcia-Colon, “Colonial Migrants at the Heart of Empire: Puerto Rican Workers on U.S. Farms” (U California Press, 2020)

Ismael Garcia-Colon
Colonial Migrants at the Heart of Empire
Puerto Rican Workers on U.S. Farms
University of California Press, 2020

New Books in American Studies New Books in Anthropology New Books in Caribbean Studies New Books in History New Books in Latino Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books Network July 10, 2020 Beth A. English

Colonial Migrants at the Heart of Empire: Puerto Rican Workers on U.S. Farms (University of California Press, 2020) is the first in-depth look at the experiences of Puerto Rican migrant workers in continental U.S. agriculture in the twentieth century. The Farm Labor Program, established by the government of Puerto Rico... Read More