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About Jaime Sánchez

NBN Episodes hosted by Jaime:

American Studies October 14, 2020

The President and Immigration Law

Adam B. Cox and Cristina M. Rodríguez

Hosted by Jaime Sánchez
Who truly controls immigration law in the United States? Though common sense might suggest the U.S. Congress, legal scholars Adam B. Cox and Cristina M. Rodríguez argue that the president …
Latino Studies September 22, 2020

Decolonizing Latinx Masculinities

Frederick Luis Aldama

Hosted by Jaime Sánchez
An early wave of research helped make visible the complex dynamics of sexuality and gender norms in Latino life, but a new generation of scholars is bringing renewed energy and …
American Studies August 11, 2020

Chicago Católico

Making Catholic Parishes Mexican

Deborah E. Kanter

Hosted by Jaime Sánchez
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 …
American Studies June 29, 2020

The Deportation Machine

America’s Long History of Expelling Immigrants

Adam Goodman

Hosted by Jaime Sánchez
Many of us know that immigrants have been deported from the United States for well over a century, but has anyone ever asked how? In The Deportation Machine: America’s Long …
American Studies December 31, 2019

The Rise of the Latino Vote

A History

Benjamin Francis-Fallon

Hosted by Jaime Sánchez
While media pundits continually speculate over the future leanings of the so-called “Latino vote,” Benjamin Francis-Fallon historicizes how Latinos were imagined into a national electoral constituency in his new book …
American Studies October 22, 2019

The King of Adobe

Reies López Tijerina, Lost Prophet of the Chicano Movement

Lorena Oropeza

Hosted by Jaime Sánchez
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 …
African American Studies August 27, 2019

Racial Migrations

New York City and the Revolutionary Politics of the Spanish Caribbean

Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof

Hosted by Jaime Sánchez
In his new book, Racial Migrations: New York City and the Revolutionary Politics of the Spanish Caribbean (Princeton University Press, 2019), historian Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof seamlessly ties together various scholarly subfields …
American Studies July 24, 2019

The Browning of the New South

Jennifer A. Jones

Hosted by Jaime Sánchez
The dawn of the new millennium bore witness to an unprecedented transformation of the population in the Southeastern United States as evidenced by Dr. Jennifer A. Jones in her new …