In Traders and Raiders: The Indigenous World of the Colorado Basin, 1540-1859 (UNC Press, 2014) Assistant Professor of History at Whittier College Natale Zappia provides an in-depth look into the "interior world" of the Lower Colorado River.

View on AmazonDr. Edmund Hamann, Dr. Stanton Wortham, Dr. Enrique G. Murillo (Eds.) have provided a fascinating and expansive volume on Latino education in the US that features an array of scholars from around the world, entitled Revisiting Educatio[...]

Dr. Edmund Hamann, Dr. Stanton Wortham, Dr. Enrique G. Murillo (Eds.) have provided a fascinating and expansive volume on Latino education in the US that features an array of scholars from around the world,

Ruben FloresView on AmazonRuben Flores is an associate professor of American Studies at the University of Kansas. His book Backroads Pragmatists: Mexico's Melting Pot and Civil Rights in the United States (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014) is [...]

Ruben Flores is an associate professor of American Studies at the University of Kansas. His book Backroads Pragmatists: Mexico’s Melting Pot and Civil Rights in the United States (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014) is the winner of the 2015 book…

Sonia Song-Ha LeeView on AmazonIn Building A Latino Civil Rights Movement: Puerto Ricans, African Americans, and the Pursuit of Racial Justice in New York City (UNC Press, 2014), Assistant Professor of History at Washington University in St. Louis S[...]

View on AmazonAs demographic trends continue to mark the so-called "Latinization" of the U.S., pundits across various media outlets struggle to understand the economic, cultural, and political implications of this reality. In popular discourse, Lati[...]

Roberto Lint SagarenaView on AmazonThe (re)making of place has composed an essential aspect of Southern California history from the era of Spanish colonialism to the present. In Aztlán and Arcadia: Religion, Ethnicity, and the Creation of Place (NY[...]

Leonard CassutoView on AmazonThe discontented graduate student is something of a cultural fixture in the U.S. Indeed theirs is a sorry lot. They work very hard, earn very little, and have very poor prospects. Nearly all of them want to become profe[...]

In this week's podcast, we hear from an author and an editor. First, Louis DeSipio and Rodolfo de la Garza are authors of U.S. Immigration in the Twenty-First Century: Making Americans, Remaking America (Westview Press, 2015). DeSipio is professor of poli