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About Jonathan Cortez
Jonathan received their Ph.D. from the Department of American Studies at Brown University in 2021. Dr. Cortez is currently writing a book about the history of immigration camps and migrant carcerality along the US-Mexico border since the late 19th century. They teach, write, and study in the fields of immigration history, relational ethnic history, and histories of the US-Mexico border. You can follow Jonathan on X @joncortz
NBN Episodes hosted by Jonathan:
July 14, 2024
Making Never-Never Land
Myths about the powers held by the United States are often supported by the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court, which derives its logic from the interp…
June 5, 2024
Strangers No Longer
“Wisconsin has always been my home. It’s not a place, however, where I’ve always felt at home,” (ix) declares Dr. Sergio M. González in the first two …
September 26, 2022
Critical Dialogues in Latinx Studies
Latinx Studies has long been overdue for a revamp – a different orientation to the questions with which we concern ourselves. Critical Dialogues in La…
April 25, 2022
Borderlands Curanderos
Recent global events have unmasked inequitable healthcare systems that disproportionately affect poor Latinx populations along the U.S-Mexico border. …
February 28, 2022
The Succeeders
Dr. Andrea Flores’ most recent book, The Succeeders: How Immigrant Youth Are Transforming What It Means to Belong in America (University of California…
February 23, 2022
Archiving Mexican Masculinities in Diaspora
Nicole M. Guidotti-Hernández once again engages in the fearless work of challenging structures of domination. In her most recent book, Archiving Mexic…
October 25, 2021
My Book of the Dead
“My poetry captures a moment,” remarked Dr. Castillo when asked about the process of writing her most recent collection of poems My Book of the Dead: …
July 16, 2021
We Are Owed.
Poet Ariana Brown searches for new origins in her debut book We Are Owed. (Grieveland Press, 2021). Brown has had over ten years of experience writing…
May 19, 2021
Homeland
Ethnic Mexicans living in the United States have always struggled to understand their position within the fabric of the nation-state. The groups that …
April 16, 2021
Abstract Barrios
The rapid gentrification of Black and brown neighborhoods in urban areas by predominantly upper-class white and other white-adjacent peoples is largel…
February 18, 2021
Decolonizing Diasporas
Yomaira C. Figueroa-Vásquez pens towards decolonial freedom. Her recently published book, Decolonizing Diasporas: Radical Mappings of Afro-Atlantic Li…
July 20, 2020
Organizing While Undocumented
Undocumented youth activists are at the forefront of the present-day immigrant rights movement. This is especially true surrounding the activism of th…
June 22, 2020
The Racial Politics of Division
Over recent years, scholarship centering Afrolatinidad has pushed the bounds of the field towards greater forms of racial and ethnic understanding. Dr…
January 3, 2020
Border Land, Border Water
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 o…
October 4, 2019
Aftershocks of Disaster
Marking the two year anniversary of Hurricane María making landfall in Puerto Rico, the September 2019 release of the anthology Aftershocks of Disaste…
June 27, 2019
Suspect Freedoms
In Suspect Freedoms: The Racial and Sexual Politics of Cubanidad in New York, 1823-1957 (NYU Press, 2017), Nancy Mirabal details New York Cuban diaspo…