Search Results - "Latino Studies"

Latino immigrant men and the deportation crisis: A gendered racial removal program by Golash-Boza, Tanya, Hondagneu-Sotelo, Pierrette

“…This article reviews how US deportations ballooned between 1997 and 2012, and underscores how these deportations disproportionately targeted Latino working…”
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Latinx thoughts: Latinidad with an X by Vidal-Ortiz, Salvador, Martínez, Juliana

“…The term “Latinx” has become a site of contention, like “Latino” once was. Our goal is to propose an articulation of Latina/o/x populations through the term…”
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Special issue: Critical Latinx indigeneities by Blackwell, Maylei, Boj Lopez, Floridalma, Urrieta, Luis

“…This special issue emerges out of a need to examine how Indigenous migrants from Latin America are transforming notions of Latinidad and indigeneity in the US…”
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Growing up Latina in the U.S.: Controlling images, stereotypes, and resistance by Lopez, Vera

“…This paper draws on a controlling images framework and focus group data from seventy-eight Latina teen girls to address two research questions: (1) What do…”
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Controlling images of immigrants in the mainstream and Black press: The discursive power of the “illegal Latino” by Delia Deckard, Natalie, Browne, Irene, Rodriguez, Cassaundra, Martinez-Cola, Marisela, Gonzalez Leal, Sofia

“…In this paper, we investigate controlling images of Latinx immigrants in the US press. Our paper expands theory within this literature in two new directions…”
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Empathy & civic engagement: Latiné youth motivating change in an anti-immigrant America by Obenchain, Kathryn M., Callahan, Rebecca M., Ochoa, Claudia, Rico, Julieta, DeSantos-Quezada, Angeles

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US print culture and José Martí’s Crónicas on US-Indigenous peoples’ rights by Fernandez, Jose O.

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Immigrant street vendors looking toward the homeland: Transnationalism and nonparticipation in a Los Angeles social movement by Rosales, Rocío

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Día de los Muertos at Rockefeller Center, shopping malls and street fairs: Integration or exclusion of Latinx populations in the corporate commodification of culture? by Marchi, Regina

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Seeing the unseen: abjection, social death, and neoliberal implication in Héctor Tobar’s The Tattooed Soldier by Quintana Wulf, Isabel

“…This article analyzes Héctor Tobar’s The Tattooed Soldier as a hemispheric critique of racialization and social dispossession bridging the gap between Central…”
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Under the guise of Latinidad: Latinx ambiguity and ethno-racial identifications in Switched at Birth by Fernández, Laura Michelle

“…This article examines the performance of Latinidad in the television show Switched at Birth (2011–2017) by excavating how Latinidad is used as a mask-like prop…”
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Yo Cuento: transmedia testimonios and Latinx participation in the outdoor diversity movement by Wald, Sarah D.

“…This essay examines the cultural stakes of Latinx involvement in the outdoor diversity movement through a close reading of the organization Latino Outdoors’…”
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Narrating around disability: Using The Book of Unknown Americans to teach bioethics by Gil, Meleena

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Visualizing imperial encounters: PLACA and US-Central American solidarity murals in San Francisco’s Mission District by Ramírez, Mauricio Ernesto

“…This article examines two 1984 murals— Keeping the Peace in Central America and Culture Contains the Seed of Resistance, Which Blossoms into the Flower of…”
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Sonic border raids: The racial acousmatic and contemporary Latinx opera by Varon, Alberto

“…This essay analyzes two contemporary Latinx operas, Cruzar la Cara de la Luna (2010) and Pancho Villa from a Safe Distance (2016), to develop the “acousmatic”…”
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Undocutime: DREAMers, Lost Children Archive, and the politics of waiting and storytelling in twenty-first-century migration narratives by Ramírez, Catherine S.

“…This essay introduces the concept of undocutime, the prolonged waiting, permanent temporariness, enforced presentism, devaluation of the time, and persistent…”
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Comida y convivencia: Building community through food and food stories by Foulis, Elena

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So-called essential but treated as disposable: Northern California farmworkers working under COVID-19 by Deeb-Sossa, Natalia, Torreiro-Casal, Mónica, Medel-Herrero, Alvaro

“…The workplace emerged as a primary site of infectious disease during the COVID-19 pandemic, especially in occupations having little to no social distancing or…”
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The so-called “Latino vote” by Caminero-Santangelo, Marta

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“Esta es mi tierra/Esta soy yo”: Teaching US colonialism and Puerto Rican resistance through Bad Bunny by Díaz, Vanessa, Rivera-Rideau, Petra R.

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