New Books in Latino Studies

New Books in Latino Studies


Latest Episodes

Mario T. García, "Father Luis Olivares, A Biography: Faith Politics and the Origins of the Sanctuary Movement in Los Angeles" (UNC Press, 2018)
February 11, 2020

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)
February 03, 2020

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)
January 30, 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)
January 03, 2020

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)
December 31, 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)
December 30, 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)
December 09, 2019

What happens to families and communities after immigration raids?

Alberto Cairo, "How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information" (Norton, 2019)
December 03, 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)
November 11, 2019

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)
November 04, 2019

Rosa examines the emergence of linguistic and ethnoracial categories in the context of Latinidad..