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New Books in Latino Studies

Interviews with Scholars of Latino Culture and History about their New BooksSupport our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/latino-studies

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Gilbert Mireles, “Continuing La Causa: Organizing Labor in California’s Strawberry Fields” (Lynne Rienner, 2013)

Gilbert Mireles, “Continuing La Causa: Organizing Labor in California’s Strawberry Fields” (Lynne Rienner, 2013)

Gilbert Mireles is the author of Continuing La Causa: Organizing Labor in California’s Strawberry Fields (Lynne Rienner ... Read more

17 Mar 2014

17mins

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Natalia Molina, “How Race is Made in America: Immigration, Citizenship, and the Historical Power of Racial Scripts” (University of California Press, 2014)

Natalia Molina, “How Race is Made in America: Immigration, Citizenship, and the Historical Power of Racial Scripts” (University of California Press, 2014)

“America is a nation of immigrants.” Either this common refrain, or its cousin the “melting pot” metaphor is repeated da... Read more

2 Sep 2015

1hr 8mins

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Jimmy Patino, “Raza Si, Migra No: Chicano Movement Struggles for Immigrant Rights in San Diego” (UNC Press, 2017)

Jimmy Patino, “Raza Si, Migra No: Chicano Movement Struggles for Immigrant Rights in San Diego” (UNC Press, 2017)

As immigration from Mexico to the United States grew through the 1970s and 1980s, the Border Patrol, police, and other s... Read more

5 Apr 2018

58mins

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Ali Michael, "Raising Race Questions: Whiteness and Inquiry in Education" (Teachers College Press, 2015)

Ali Michael, "Raising Race Questions: Whiteness and Inquiry in Education" (Teachers College Press, 2015)

In this episode, I talked with Ali Michael on her award-winning book, Raising Race Questions: Whiteness and Inquiry in E... Read more

13 May 2019

1hr 11mins

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Paul Ortiz, “An African American and Latinx History of the United States” (Beacon Press, 2017)

Paul Ortiz, “An African American and Latinx History of the United States” (Beacon Press, 2017)

Throughout many American classrooms, students learn how the United States was formed, and most importantly, the historic... Read more

5 Feb 2018

1hr 2mins

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Mireya Loza, “Defiant Braceros: How Migrant Workers Fought for Racial, Sexual, and Political Freedom” (UNC Press, 2016)

Mireya Loza, “Defiant Braceros: How Migrant Workers Fought for Racial, Sexual, and Political Freedom” (UNC Press, 2016)

Mireya Loza’s Defiant Braceros How Migrant Workers Fought for Racial, Sexual, and Political Freedom (University of North... Read more

12 Sep 2016

1hr

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Kelly Lytle Hernandez, “Migra! A History of the U.S. Border Patrol” (UC Press, 2010)

Kelly Lytle Hernandez, “Migra! A History of the U.S. Border Patrol” (UC Press, 2010)

As evidenced by many of the conversations featured on this podcast, scholarship on the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands composes ... Read more

23 Aug 2016

1hr 7mins

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A. K. Sandoval-Strausz, "Barrio America: How Latino Immigrants Saved the American City" (Basic Books, 2019)

A. K. Sandoval-Strausz, "Barrio America: How Latino Immigrants Saved the American City" (Basic Books, 2019)

In A. K. Sandoval-Strausz’s recent work, Barrio America: How Latino Immigrants Saved the American City (Basic Books, 201... Read more

12 Feb 2020

1hr 4mins

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C. J. Alvarez, "Border Land, Border Water: A History of Construction on the US-Mexico Divide" (U Texas Press, 2019)

C. J. Alvarez, "Border Land, Border Water: A History of Construction on the US-Mexico Divide" (U Texas Press, 2019)

Recent debates over the building of a border wall on the U.S.-Mexico divide have raised logistical and ethical issues, l... Read more

3 Jan 2020

1hr

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Jonathan Rosa, "Looking like a Language, Sounding like a Race" (Oxford UP, 2019)

Jonathan Rosa, "Looking like a Language, Sounding like a Race" (Oxford UP, 2019)

Jonathan Rosa's new book Looking like a Language, Sounding like a Race: Raciolinguistic Ideologies and the Learning of L... Read more

4 Nov 2019

1hr 4mins

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Gabriela González, "Redeeming La Raza: Transborder Modernity, Race, Respectability and Rights" (Oxford UP, 2018)

Gabriela González, "Redeeming La Raza: Transborder Modernity, Race, Respectability and Rights" (Oxford UP, 2018)

Tiffany Jasmin González speaks with Dr. Gabriela González about her award-winning book, Redeeming La Raza: Transborder M... Read more

29 Jul 2019

1hr 6mins

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Ana Raquel Minian, “Undocumented Lives: The Untold Story of Mexican Migration” (Harvard UP, 2018)

Ana Raquel Minian, “Undocumented Lives: The Untold Story of Mexican Migration” (Harvard UP, 2018)

In the 1970s, the Mexican government acted to alleviate rural unemployment by supporting the migration of able-bodied me... Read more

22 Aug 2018

1hr 3mins

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Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof, "Racial Migrations: New York City and the Revolutionary Politics of the Spanish Caribbean" (Princeton UP, 2019)

Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof, "Racial Migrations: New York City and the Revolutionary Politics of the Spanish Caribbean" (Princeton UP, 2019)

In his new book, Racial Migrations: New York City and the Revolutionary Politics of the Spanish Caribbean (Princeton Uni... Read more

27 Aug 2019

1hr 29mins

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Natale Zappia, “Traders and Raiders: The Indigenous World of the Colorado Basin, 1540-1859” (UNC Press, 2014)

Natale Zappia, “Traders and Raiders: The Indigenous World of the Colorado Basin, 1540-1859” (UNC Press, 2014)

In Traders and Raiders: The Indigenous World of the Colorado Basin, 1540-1859 (UNC Press, 2014) Assistant Professor of H... Read more

28 Oct 2015

1hr 15mins

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Peter Wade, et. al. “Mestizo Genomics: Race Mixture, Nation, and Science in Latin America (Duke UP, 2014)

Peter Wade, et. al. “Mestizo Genomics: Race Mixture, Nation, and Science in Latin America (Duke UP, 2014)

Over the past quarter-century, scientists have been mapping and exploring the human genome to locate the genetic basis o... Read more

2 Aug 2016

1hr 2mins

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Sonia Song-Ha Lee, “Building A Latino Civil Rights Movement” (UNC Press, 2014)

Sonia Song-Ha Lee, “Building A Latino Civil Rights Movement” (UNC Press, 2014)

In Building A Latino Civil Rights Movement: Puerto Ricans, African Americans, and the Pursuit of Racial Justice in New Y... Read more

20 Oct 2015

1hr 4mins

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Chris Zepeda-Millan, “Latino Mass Mobilization: Immigration, Racialization, and Activism” (Cambridge UP, 2017)

Chris Zepeda-Millan, “Latino Mass Mobilization: Immigration, Racialization, and Activism” (Cambridge UP, 2017)

Prior to the wave of protests in 2017 supporting immigrants in the US, there were the protests of 2006. That spring, mil... Read more

22 Jan 2018

26mins

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Ignacio M. Garcia, “Chicano While Mormon: Activism, War, and Keeping the Faith” (Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2015)

Ignacio M. Garcia, “Chicano While Mormon: Activism, War, and Keeping the Faith” (Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2015)

Identities are complicated things. Often contradictory and rarely easily understood, identities emerge early in ones lif... Read more

25 Aug 2015

1hr 8mins

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Jerry Gonzalez, “In Search of the Mexican Beverly Hills: Latino Suburbanization in Postwar Los Angeles” (Rutgers UP, 2018)

Jerry Gonzalez, “In Search of the Mexican Beverly Hills: Latino Suburbanization in Postwar Los Angeles” (Rutgers UP, 2018)

In Search of the Mexican Beverly Hills: Latino Suburbanization in Postwar Los Angeles (Rutgers University Press, 2018) b... Read more

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Rosina Lozano, “An American Language: The History of Spanish in the United States” (U California Press, 2018)

Rosina Lozano, “An American Language: The History of Spanish in the United States” (U California Press, 2018)

In An American Language: The History of Spanish in the United States (University of California Press, 2018), Rosina Loza... Read more

28 May 2018

49mins

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