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S. Deborah Kang, “The INS on the Line: Making Immigration Law on the US-Mexico Border, 1917-1954” (Oxford UP, 2017)

S. Deborah Kang
The INS on the Line
Making Immigration Law on the US-Mexico Border, 1917-1954
Oxford University Press, 2019

New Books in American Studies New Books in History New Books in Latin American Studies New Books in Latino Studies New Books in Law New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books Network November 11, 2019 Derek Litvak

Today I talked to S. Deborah Kang about her book The INS on the Line: Making Immigration Law on the US-Mexico Border, 1917-1954, published by Oxford University Press in 2017. The INS on the Line explores the history behind Immigration and Naturalization Service throughout the 20th Century, interrogating how this... Read More

Jonathan Rosa, “Looking like a Language, Sounding like a Race” (Oxford UP, 2019)

Jonathan Rosa
Looking like a Language, Sounding like a Race
Raciolinguistic Ideologies and the Learning of Latinidad
Oxford University Press, 2019

New Books in American Studies New Books in Anthropology New Books in Language New Books in Latino Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Sociology New Books Network November 4, 2019 Carrie Gillon and Megan Figueroa

Jonathan Rosa‘s new book Looking like a Language, Sounding like a Race: Raciolinguistic Ideologies and the Learning of Latinidad (Oxford University Press, 2019) examines the emergence of linguistic and ethnoracial categories in the context of Latinidad. The book draws from more than twenty-four months of ethnographic and sociolinguistic fieldwork in... Read More

Perla Guerrero, “Nuevo South: Asians, Latinas/os, and the Remaking of Place” (U Texas Press, 2017)

Perla Guerrero
Nuevo South
Asians, Latinas/os, and the Remaking of Place
University of Texas Press, 2017

New Books in American Studies New Books in Asian American Studies New Books in History New Books in Latino Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in the American South October 31, 2019 Derek Litvak

Perla Guerrero is the author of Nuevo South: Asians, Latinas/os, and the Remaking of Place (University of Texas Press, 2017). Nuevo South explores the history of an ever diversifying U.S. South by examining the mixed reactions refugees, immigrants, and migrants, from different countries, received in Arkansas in the latter half... Read More

Gary J. Adler, Jr., “Empathy Beyond US Borders: The Challenges of Transnational Civic Engagement” (Cambridge UP, 2019)

Gary J. Adler, Jr.
Empathy Beyond US Borders
The Challenges of Transnational Civic Engagement
Cambridge University Press, 2019

New Books in American Studies New Books in Anthropology New Books in Latin American Studies New Books in Latino Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Sociology New Books Network October 29, 2019 Sarah E. Patterson

Do immersion trips really transform those who participate and how so? In his new book Empathy Beyond US Borders: The Challenges of Transnational Civic Engagement (Cambridge University Press, 2019), Gary J. Adler, Jr. explores this question and more. Using mixed methods, including surveys, interviews, and ethnography, Adler investigates how an... Read More

Julia G. Young, “Mexican Exodus: Emigrants, Exiles, and Refugees of the Cristero War” (Oxford UP, 2019)

Julia G. Young
Mexican Exodus
Emigrants, Exiles, and Refugees of the Cristero War
Oxford University Press, 2015

New Books in American Studies New Books in History New Books in Latin American Studies New Books in Latino Studies New Books in Military History New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books Network October 23, 2019 Ethan Fredrick

In Mexican Exodus: Emigrants, Exiles, and Refugees of the Cristero War (Oxford University Press, 2019), Julia G. Young reframes the Cristero War as a transnational conflict, using previously unexamined archival materials from both Mexico and the United States to investigate the intersections between Mexico’s Cristero War and Mexican migration to... Read More

Lorena Oropeza, “The King of Adobe: Reies López Tijerina, Lost Prophet of the Chicano Movement” (UNC Press, 2019)

Lorena Oropeza
The King of Adobe
Reies López Tijerina, Lost Prophet of the Chicano Movement
University of North Carolina Press, 2019

New Books in American Studies New Books in Biography 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 October 22, 2019 Jaime Sánchez and Jr.

Lorena Oropeza, Professor of History at the University of California at Davis, sheds new light on one of Chicano history’s most notorious figures in her new book, The King of Adobe: Reies López Tijerina, Lost Prophet of the Chicano Movement (University of North Carolina Press, 2019). Oropeza intervenes in the... Read More

Marisol LeBrón and Yarimar Bonilla, “Aftershocks of Disaster: Puerto Rico Before and After the Storm” (Haymarket, 2019)

Marisol LeBrón and Yarimar Bonilla
Aftershocks of Disaster
Puerto Rico Before and After the Storm
Haymarket Books, 2019

New Books in American Studies New Books in Caribbean Studies New Books in Environmental Studies New Books in Latin American Studies New Books in Latino Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books Network October 4, 2019 Jonathan Cortez

Marking the two year anniversary of Hurricane María making landfall in Puerto Rico, the September 2019 release of the anthology Aftershocks of Disaster: Puerto Rico Before and After the Storm (Haymarket Books, 2019) brings together a collective of artists, journalists, and scholars to reflect on the multiple disasters that have... Read More