New Books in Latino Studies
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Mario T. García, "Father Luis Olivares, A Biography: Faith Politics and the Origins of the Sanctuary Movement in Los Angeles" (UNC Press, 2018)
García traces Olivares’ humble beginnings as a poor boy growing up in San Antonio’s west side barrio to his improbable rise as the “Gucci priest” of the Claretian order...
Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof, "Racial Migrations: New York City and the Revolutionary Politics of the Spanish Caribbean" (Princeton UP, 2019)
In the late nineteenth century, a small group of Cubans and Puerto Ricans of African descent settled in the segregated tenements of New York City...
K. Linder et al., "Going Alt-Ac: A Guide to Alternative Academic Careers" (Stylus Publishing, 2020)
If you’re a grad student facing the ugly reality of finding a tenure-track job, you could easily be forgiven for thinking about a career change...
C. J. Alvarez, "Border Land, Border Water: A History of Construction on the US-Mexico Divide" (U Texas Press, 2019)
Alvarez offers an over one-hundred-year history that extends to before the building of a border wall in 1990...
Benjamin Francis-Fallon, "The Rise of the Latino Vote: A History" (Harvard UP, 2019)
Francis-Fallon historicizes how Latinos were imagined into a national electoral constituency...
Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia, "Banned: Immigration Enforcement in the Time of Trump" (NYU Press, 2019)
Immigration is one of the most complex issues of our time in the United States...
William D. Lopez, "Separated: Family & Community in the Aftermath of an Immigration Raid" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2019)
What happens to families and communities after immigration raids?
Alberto Cairo, "How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information" (Norton, 2019)
We’ve all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, but what if we don’t understand what we’re looking at?
S. Deborah Kang, "The INS on the Line: Making Immigration Law on the US-Mexico Border, 1917-1954" (Oxford UP, 2017)
Kang explores the history behind Immigration and Naturalization Service throughout the 20th Century,..
Jonathan Rosa, "Looking like a Language, Sounding like a Race" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Rosa examines the emergence of linguistic and ethnoracial categories in the context of Latinidad..