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Inside "A Handbook of Latinx Art"

Jun 12 2025
A closer look at the art featured in "A Handbook of Latinx Art," edited by Rocío Aranda-Alvarado and Deborah Cullen-Morales.
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Reflections on 25 years of Refried Elvis (Part 1 of 2)

Jun 12 2024
Celebrating 25 years of REFRIED ELVIS with the first of two posts focusing on the monumental book.
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An Interview with Yvette J. Saavedra, winner of the Antonia I. Castañeda Prize

Jun 12 2024
Every year the National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies (NACCS) awards the Antonia I. Castañeda Prize to recognize historical scholarship that examines the intersections of class, race, gender, and sexuality, as it relates to Chicana/Latina and/or Native/Indigenous women. This year, hist
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Scaling Migrant Worker Rights: How Advocates Collaborate and Contest State Power

Jul 17 2023
By Xochitl Bada and Shannon Gleeson Low-wage labor in the United States is characterized by egregiously low minimum wage standards, insufficient health and safety protections, and a civil rights regime that does little to address structural racism. 
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Q&A with Jessica P. Cerdeña, author of Pressing Onward

Apr 11 2023
Pressing Onward: The Imperative Resilience of Latina Migrant Mothers centers the stories of mothers who migrated from Latin America, settled in New Haven, Connecticut, and overcame trauma and ongoing adversity to build futures for their children. These migrant mothers enact imperative resilience, en
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Q&A with Laura Enriquez: on the Intimate Impact of Immigration Policy

Aug 03 2021
This interview was originally published on the UCI School of Social Sciences site by Heather Ashbach, and is reposted here with permission. Award-winning Author Laura EnriquezImmigration policy is fundamentally reshaping Latino families and perpetuating inequality, says UCI Chicano/Latino st
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Interview with MacArthur Fellow, Natalia Molina

Apr 14 2021
Photo credit: Mike GlierAs a professor American studies and ethnicity at USC, Natalia Molina has spent her career studying race, citizenship, and the experiences of immigrants in the U.S. Last year, Molina was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in honor of her “revealing how narratives of racial dif
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Natalia Molina named 2020 MacArthur Fellow

Oct 09 2020
UC Press is thrilled to share that USC professor and UC Press author Natalia Molina has been named a 2020 MacArthur Fellow.Each year, the MacArthur Fellowship, which includes a $625,000 stipend, is awarded “to extraordinarily talented and creative individuals as an investment in their potential
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For Hispanic Heritage Month—Why We Need to Build Toward a Latinx Future

Oct 08 2020
By Catherine S. Ramírez, author of Assimilation: An Alternative History“Hispanics are not just a significant part of our Nation’s origin; they are essential to America’s future.”US Senators Orrin G. Hatch and Paul Simon, on the creation of National Hispanic Heritage Month, April 15, 1988Each
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Shedding Light on Neglected Histories and Herstories of Radical Urban Communities: An Interview with LALVC Contributor Gigi Otálvaro-Hormillosa

Sep 15 2020
As we begin National Hispanic Heritage Month, we invited Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture contributor Gigi Otálvaro-Hormillosa to talk about her ALAA award-winning article "Metamorphic and Sensuous Brown Bodies: Queer Latina/x Visual and Performance Cultures in San Francisco Strip Clubs, 196
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