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A closer look at the art featured in "A Handbook of Latinx Art," edited by Rocío Aranda-Alvarado and Deborah Cullen-Morales.

Celebrating 25 years of REFRIED ELVIS with the first of two posts focusing on the monumental book.

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

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. 

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

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

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

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

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

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