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Latino Studies June 24, 2022

Tejanaland

A Writing Life in Four Acts

Teresa Palomo Acosta

Hosted by Tiffany Gonzalez
Tejanaland: A Writing Life in Four Acts (Texas A&M UP, 2021) by Teresa Palomo Acosta--poet, historian, author, and activist--spans three decades of her writing, from 1988 through 2018. The collection …

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Women's History June 22, 2022

Laboratory of Deficiency

Sterilization and Confinement in California, 1900-1950s

Natalie Lira

Hosted by Jennifer Davis Cline
Mirelsie Velázquez (Associate Professor & Rainbolt Family Endowed Presidential Professor, University of Oklahoma) speaks with Natalie Lira (Associate Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) about Lira’s recent book, Laboratory of …
Catholic Studies June 20, 2022

Seeing Jesus in the Eyes of the Oppressed

Franciscans Working for Peace and Justice

Paul T. Murray

Hosted by Allison Isidore
Following World War II, the United States enjoyed unprecedented prosperity as the post-war economy exploded. While Americans pondered affluence, U.S. Franciscans focused on the forgotten members of U.S. society, those …
Latino Studies June 17, 2022

A Place at the Nayarit

How a Mexican Restaurant Nourished a Community

Natalia Molina

Hosted by Ari Barbalat
In 1951, Doña Natalia Barraza opened the Nayarit, a Mexican restaurant in Echo Park, Los Angeles. With A Place at the Nayarit: How a Mexican Restaurant Nourished a Community (U California …
American West June 14, 2022

Refusing Death

Immigrant Women and the Fight for Environmental Justice in LA

Nadia Y. Kim

Hosted by Stephen Hausmann
The air in Los Angeles can be lethal, and nobody knows this better than the city’s Latinx and Asian immigrants, argues Dr. Nadia Kim in Refusing Death: Immigrant Women and …
American West June 13, 2022

Making a Modern U.S. West

The Contested Terrain of a Region and Its Borders, 1898-1940

Sarah Deutsch

Hosted by Stephen Hausmann
In less than half a century, the American West changed dramatically from a region of dynamic borders, politics, and identities to a more fixed zone of borders and demarcations …
Latino Studies June 3, 2022

Brown Church

Five Centuries of Latina/o Social Justice, Theology, and Identity

Robert Chao Romero

Hosted by David-James Gonzales
For five hundred years, Latina/o culture and identity have been shaped by their challenges to the religious, socio-economic, and political status quo, whether in opposition to Spanish colonialism, Latin American …
Latin American Studies May 27, 2022

Home in Florida

Latinx Writers and the Literature of Uprootedness

Anjanette Delgado

Hosted by Minni Sawhney
Today I spoke to Anjanette Delgado, a Puerto Rican writer and journalist based in Miami who has compiled emblematic stories and essays by writers from many countries who congregate in …
African American Studies May 25, 2022

Academic Apartheid

Race and the Criminalization of Failure in an American Suburb

Sean J. Drake

Hosted by Mickell Carter
In Academic Apartheid: Race and the Criminalization of Failure in an American Suburb (U California Press, 2022), sociologist Sean J. Drake addresses long-standing problems of educational inequality from a nuanced …
Latin American Studies May 9, 2022

Bad Mexicans

Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands

Kelly Lytle Hernández

Hosted by Ari Barbalat
Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands (Norton, 2022)tells the dramatic story of the magonistas, the migrant rebels who sparked the 1910 Mexican Revolution from the United States …
Political Science May 2, 2022

Nowhere to Run

Race, Gender, and Immigration in American Elections

Christian Dyogi Phillips

Hosted by Susan Liebell
Why has the underrepresentation of women and racial minorities in elected office proved so persistent in American politics? In Nowhere to Run: Race, Gender, and Immigration in American Elections (Oxford UP …
Caribbean Studies April 27, 2022

The Lettered Barriada

Workers, Archival Power, and the Politics of Knowledge in Puerto Rico

Jorell A. Meléndez-Badillo

Hosted by Alejandra Bronfman
In The Lettered Barriada: Workers, Archival Power, and the Politics of Knowledge in Puerto Rico (Duke UP, 2021), Jorell A. Meléndez-Badillo tells the story of how a cluster of self-educated …
The Future of . . . with Owen Bennett-Jones April 26, 2022

The Future of Race

A Discussion with John McWhorter

John McWhorter

Hosted by Owen Bennett-Jones
Race is the subject of passionate and increasingly angry debate. But amidst all the talk of unconscious bias it’s an area into which many fear to tread. In this podcast …
Latino Studies April 25, 2022

Borderlands Curanderos

The Worlds of Santa Teresa Urrea and Don Pedrito Jaramillo

Jennifer Koshatka Seman

Hosted by Jonathan Cortez
Recent global events have unmasked inequitable healthcare systems that disproportionately affect poor Latinx populations along the U.S-Mexico border. Professor Jennifer K. Seman’s recent publication offers a brief insight into these …
Ethnographic Marginalia March 22, 2022

The Land of Open Graves

Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail

Jason De Leon

Hosted by Alexander Diamond
How can you integrate archaeology and photography with ethnographic research to understand the experiences of clandestine migrants? Today we talk with Jason de Leon, professor of Anthropology and Chicano/a Studies …
Latino Studies February 28, 2022

The Succeeders

How Immigrant Youth Are Transforming What It Means to Belong in America

Andrea Flores

Hosted by Jonathan Cortez
Dr. Andrea Flores’ most recent book, The Succeeders: How Immigrant Youth Are Transforming What It Means to Belong in America (University of California Press, 2021), is a detailed account of …
Latino Studies February 23, 2022

Archiving Mexican Masculinities in Diaspora

Nicole M. Guidotti-Hernández

Hosted by Jonathan Cortez
Nicole M. Guidotti-Hernández once again engages in the fearless work of challenging structures of domination. In her most recent book, Archiving Mexican Masculinities in Diaspora (Duke University Press, 2021), Profesora …
Political Science February 15, 2022

The Sound of Exclusion

NPR and the Latinx Public

Christopher Chávez

Hosted by Susan Liebell
How is power enacted in everyday broadcast practices? National Public Radio has a “rhetoric of impartiality” but this obscures the ideological work done by the network.” In The Sound of …
Literature February 15, 2022

Coconut

Brown on the Outside, White on the Inside

Manuel Padilla Jr.

Hosted by Minni Sawhney
Manuel Padilla Jr. spoke to me today in his very accessible yet historically conscious novel Coconut: Brown on the Outside, White on the Inside (Xlibris Publications, 2020) in which he …
Latino Studies February 14, 2022

Civil Rights in Black and Brown

Histories of Resistance and Struggle in Texas

Max Krochmal and J. Todd Moye

Hosted by Tiffany Gonzalez
Max Krochmal and Todd Moye’s Civil Rights in Black and Brown: Histories of Resistance and Struggle in Texas (University of Texas Press, 2021) is a critical contribution that uncovers histories of …