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Latino Studies and Latino Criminology: An invitation to engage in the labor of healing in the Neoliberal-Carceral University Latino Studies Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Arianna Vargas, Melissa Guzman
Recent scholarship on Latinos and crime has invited scholars to reimagine the scholarly project of Latino Studies more broadly. Existing accounts suggest Latino Criminology (LC) can help decolonize or correct colonial, imperialist, and carceral logics within the study of Latinos and crime. However, this paper asks: what actual contributions can Latino studies offer LC, and vice versa? To explore this
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What the fuck? Surviving fantasies of sexual violence in the professoriate Latino Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Rocío R. García, Susila Gurusami, Diya Bose
K. S. León (2021) has proposed the need to “unfuck” criminology’s colonial investments via the possibilities offered by Latino criminology. However, to “‘unfuck’ criminology’s colonial inheritances,” we introduce three intervening premises: sexual politics are central to the uses and understandings of “fuck,” sexual violence is central to colonialism, and colonialism is central to academic governance
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Swarm of earthquakes, #Wandalismo and anticorruption mobilizations in Puerto Rico: Latinx criminology and state crimes Latino Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Jose Atiles
A 6.4 magnitude earthquake struck Puerto Rico on 7 January 2020, adding a new episode to the multilayered political, economic, and humanitarian crisis affecting the island since 2006. This article demonstrates how the recovery efforts and management of the emergency constitute a state crime. The analysis draws from governmental and journalistic investigation and engages with legal and critical discourse
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“They say it’s a crime for us to be here”: Latinx reflections on the myth of the “criminal immigrant” in the Trump era Latino Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-04
Abstract Media and public discourse perpetuate the myth that immigrants—particularly those from Latin America and the undocumented—are crime-prone. Numerous empirical studies refute this. Fewer studies examine how Latinx communities internalize these faulty associations, or how they perceive criminality of other Latinx people. We address two research questions: How do first- and second-generation Latinx
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Critical relationalities: Centering Indigenous land, presence, and sovereignty in immigrant/migrant rights discourses Latino Studies Pub Date : 2023-11-23 Raquel Andrea González Madrigal
This article situates the US-Mexico border and anti-immigration law in the context of US imperialism and settler colonialism. It centers Tohono O’odham land, presence, and Indigenous sovereignty in an examination of Latin@/x migration, border policies, and im/migrant rights. Contributing to scholarship in critical Latinx indigeneities, this article contends that the structures and mechanisms of border
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How many Latino studies programs are there? Tracking departmental growth, stagnation, and invisibility 1960–2020 Latino Studies Pub Date : 2023-07-12 G. Cristina Mora, Nicholas Vargas, Dominic Cedillo
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Do brown people have brown thoughts? Richard Rodriguez’s philosophy of race, culture, and identity Latino Studies Pub Date : 2023-07-07 Michael Nieto Garcia
Ever since the publication of Hunger of Memory in 1982, Richard Rodriguez has been read by scholars almost exclusively through the lens of identity politics. Twenty years later, in Brown, Rodriguez sought to reconcile some of the contradictions of identity, at least his own. Ultimately, Rodriguez concludes that the contradictions of identity cannot be reconciled. Our identities are always more complex
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Healing our histories through otros saberes: Latina activism, testimonios and intergenerational food justice Latino Studies Pub Date : 2023-07-07 Lani Cupchoy
Emerging from oral histories, auto-ethnographical research and collaborative testimonios, this study documents intergenerational food justice activism by my mother and me that took root in Montebello Unified, the third largest school district in Los Angeles County, California, United States. Influenced by a familial legacy of Indigenous food knowledge, holistic healing, and herbal traditions that migrated
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“I fell in love, but he is white”: Latina Mormon immigrants on interracial marriage and gendered family relationships Latino Studies Pub Date : 2023-05-15 Brittany Romanello
Intermarriage rates between Latinx and white individuals continue increasing nationally, especially within the so-called Mormon corridor, US western regions with high Mormon populations. Based on interviews with Latina immigrants across four states, the research for this paper deepens intersectional discussions about immigration, race, interracial marriage, legal status, and gendered family relationships
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“It felt like hitting rock bottom”: A qualitative exploration of the mental health impacts of immigration enforcement and discrimination on US-citizen, Mexican children Latino Studies Pub Date : 2023-05-15 Jamile Tellez Lieberman, Carmen R. Valdez, Jessie Kemmick Pintor, Philippe Weisz, Amy Carroll-Scott, Kevin Wagner, Ana P. Martinez-Donate
Latino immigrant families in the United States were disproportionately affected by intensified interior immigration enforcement under the Trump administration. US-citizen children are victimized by policies targeting their immigrant parents; research is sparse regarding how these polices affect children who experience parental deportation and children who are at risk for parental deportation. Additionally
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Ciranda, a circle of encounter: Reflections on a decolonial pedagogical activity on human rights discourses with Latinx students Latino Studies Pub Date : 2023-04-19 Jesica Siham Fernández, James Moura Ferreira
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Cuentos y consejos: Migrant agency in the FM4 Paso Libre Latino Studies Pub Date : 2023-04-19 Michaela Django Walsh
This project uses ethnographic methods to detail firsthand experiences inside a migrant and refugee shelter in Guadalajara, Mexico, that shed light on undocumented migrant agency. In the context of heightened securitization of migration throughout the country’s interior, I analyze the shelter as a paradoxical site of surveillance and solidarity. While I address how the shelter performs security preoccupations
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Growing up Latina in the U.S.: Controlling images, stereotypes, and resistance Latino Studies Pub Date : 2023-03-02 Vera Lopez
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 Latina girls like about being Latina? and (2) How do they think others view Latinas? Data were collected in Phoenix, Arizona during the Trump administration. Despite growing up in a highly politicized anti-immigrant (and by extension anti-Latina/o
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Toribio Romo: From Cristero martyr to migrant patron saint Latino Studies Pub Date : 2023-02-21 César Eduardo Medina Gallo
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Educating the “illegal”: Life and learning as both undocumented student and undocumented migrant worker Latino Studies Pub Date : 2023-02-15 Genevieve Negrón-Gonzales
Though California is often regarded as the vanguard in adopting policies to support undocumented students, not all undocumented youth in California are experiencing increased educational access. I argue that undocumented community college students in the Central Valley of California navigate symmetrical experiences in the worlds of work and education—experiences that serve to keep them as exploited
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Semillas de la rebelión: Revolutionary postmemory, hip-hop, and Chilean exile Latino Studies Pub Date : 2023-02-09 Camila Gavin-Bravo
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Traitor, survivor, icon: The legacy of La Malinche Latino Studies Pub Date : 2022-11-29 Ella Maria Diaz
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Undocumented anthems: Musical resistance in Back of the Yards, Chicago Latino Studies Pub Date : 2022-11-20 Stacey Alex
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“And in the rainbow corner”: Orlando Cruz and performances of masculinity, homonormativity, and liberation Latino Studies Pub Date : 2022-11-19 Raúl J. Feliciano Ortiz, Eddy Francisco Alvarez
In this essay, building on previous scholarship on race, gender, and sexuality in sports, we look at the public coming-out process of the first openly gay male boxer, Puerto Rican Orlando Cruz. Influenced by women-of-color feminism, performance studies, Latina media criticism, and sociology of sports, we analyze media interviews in both English-and Spanish-language media, using critical discourse analysis
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Gendered views of war and home(lessness) in US Central American narrative: An analysis of Héctor Tobar’s The Tattooed Soldier and Francisco Goldman’s The Ordinary Seaman Latino Studies Pub Date : 2022-11-18 Abel Arango
This article situates the work of US-born Central American novelists within Latinx and US Central American studies, critiquing masculinist subjectivities that I read alongside Yajaira Padilla’s conceptualization of a Central American transnational imaginary. I argue that Héctor Tobar and Francisco Goldman perpetuate a hetero-masculinist tendency to equate struggling national projects and, by extension
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Indigenous to where? Homelands and nation (pueblo) in Indigenous Latinx studies Latino Studies Pub Date : 2022-11-18 Megan Ybarra
This paper centers the importance of homelands in the distinction between indigeneity and Latinidades, or multiple Latinx identities. I emphasize the political nature of indigeneity, where the nation (pueblo) has the collective right to determine who is a member of their group. Latinidades, on the other hand, emerged as a racialized category under US imperialism and immigration. In thinking through
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(Mis)languaging and (mis)translating identity: Racialization of Latinidad in the US mediascape Latino Studies Pub Date : 2022-09-21 Anna Lawrence, Aris Clemons
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Camp Chicano: The racialization of the great outdoors in the Civilian Conservation Corps Latino Studies Pub Date : 2022-09-21 Stevie Ruiz
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Ethnographic borders and crossings: Critical ethnography, intersectionality, and blurring the boundaries of insider research Latino Studies Pub Date : 2022-09-09 Almita A. Miranda
Critical ethnographers have long challenged positivist notions of research objectivity and the presumed unbiased observer, arguing that one’s theoretical lens and positionality influence research design, access, and experiences in the field. Scholars of color have further pointed out the need to examine people’s lived experiences through an intersectional framework, acknowledging the ways in which
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Roadblocks to teaching as a foreign, junior, Latina professor Latino Studies Pub Date : 2022-08-25 Alejandra Reyes
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Advancing Latino engagement methodologies in urban planning: Utilizing pláticas for local economic development Latino Studies Pub Date : 2022-08-09 Edna Ely-Ledesma
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Movement as a methodology: Finding the right tools for doing equity-oriented research Latino Studies Pub Date : 2022-08-08 Sarah M. Rios
Equity-oriented, collaborative, community-based research is a form of participatory action scholarship that entails a commitment from the researcher to formulate questions through horizontal dialogue with people who, while not credentialed as experts, are generators of expert knowledge because of their engagement with social struggles. This method is a challenging process that demands an ongoing reflexive
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Gendered banishment: Rewriting Mexican repatriation through a transgenerational oral history methodology Latino Studies Pub Date : 2022-08-08 Marla A. Ramírez
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Mexican-Origin Newsmakers: Utilizing Health in La Opinión Microfilm for Data Collecting and Methodology Latino Studies Pub Date : 2022-08-05 Janett Barragán Miranda
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Special issue: Intersectional methodological approaches: Research movidas to center Latina/Latino/Latinx voices. Latino Studies Pub Date : 2022-08-06 Marla A Ramírez,Sarah M Rios
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“Together we arrived and together we shall leave”: The Gouverneur Parents Association and the politics of race and disability in postwar New York Latino Studies Pub Date : 2022-07-27 Jorge Matos Valldejuli
This essay documents the history of the Gouverneur Parents Association (GPA), a group of mostly Black and Latinx parents whose disabled children were institutionalized at the Gouverneur Division of the infamous Willowbrook State School in New York City. The GPA, in coalition with Black, Latinx, and White parents and activists, led a campaign during the 1970s and 1980s to close Willowbrook, then part
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Stereotype and stigma in the school (re)insertion of “children of deported parents” from the United States: An analysis in Oaxaca, Mexico Latino Studies Pub Date : 2022-07-14 Marta Rodríguez-Cruz
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Language mixing and metalinguistic awareness in the songs of Eduardo “Lalo” Guerrero Latino Studies Pub Date : 2022-07-04 María Irene Moyna, Verónica Loureiro-Rodríguez
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Bienaventurado el que escuche este liriqueo: Negotiating latinidad through reggaeton Latino Studies Pub Date : 2022-06-14 Regina Solis Miranda
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Rural belonging and solidarity: A guadalupe celebration Latino Studies Pub Date : 2022-04-14 Cristina Ortiz
Rural Midwest communities are important sites of social reproduction. In many communities the experiences of Latinx community members highlight the complexities of rural belonging. I examine how a Virgen de Guadalupe procession promotes ethnoreligious solidarity and challenges imaginations of the rural Midwest. I draw from ethnographic data including semi-structured interviews, participant observations
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“Show them how they treat us”: Legal violence in the everyday lives of street vendors Latino Studies Pub Date : 2022-04-14 Leigh-Anna Hidalgo
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Post-soul Latinidad: Black nationalism in Mama’s Girl and Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina Latino Studies Pub Date : 2022-04-14 Trent Masiki
Contemporary Afro-Latina coming-of-age memoirs often include a significant admixture of African American literary, cultural, and political influences. This is true of Mama’s Girl (1996) by Veronica Chambers and Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina (2013) by Raquel Cepeda. As they came of age in New York City during the early post-soul era, Chambers and Cepeda were attracted to opposite poles of Black
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Legal passing: Navigating undocumented life and local immigration law Latino Studies Pub Date : 2022-04-14 Luisa Laura Heredia
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Giving form to an Asian and Latinx America Latino Studies Pub Date : 2022-04-14 María Daniela Z. Jiménez
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“It could be 3 million, it could be 30 million”: Quantitative misperceptions about undocumented immigration and immigration attitudes in the Trump era Latino Studies Pub Date : 2022-02-23 Eileen Díaz McConnell
Recent changes in the sociopolitical US landscape calls for the examination of the level of quantitative misperception about undocumented immigration and its connection with immigration attitudes. Nationally representative survey data are used to analyze whether being misinformed about the proportion of US immigrants that are undocumented in 2015 is linked with abstract immigration attitudes and four
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Sana sana: Racial healing, history and genealogy with Latinx youth in the #BrownInChicago project Latino Studies Pub Date : 2022-02-23 Juliet de Jesús Alejandré,Jesse Mumm,Violet Gallardo
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The Latino continuum and the nineteenth-century Americas: Literature, translation and historiography Latino Studies Pub Date : 2022-02-16 John Alba Cutler
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The invisibility of farmworkers: Implications and remedies Latino Studies Pub Date : 2022-02-11 Kennedy Saldanha
This article highlights the invisibility of farmworkers in Michigan, a state dependent on migrant labor for more than one hundred years. The study describes migrant housing camps using data from fieldwork, visits to housing camps, and the shadowing of outreach staff from service organizations. Although regulated, accommodations are minimal, substandard, and overcrowded, affecting the health and well-being
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Decolonizing diasporas: Radical mappings of Afro-Atlantic literature Latino Studies Pub Date : 2022-02-11 Omaris Z. Zamora
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“What part of Mexico is Peru in?” The racialization and identities of South American immigrants Latino Studies Pub Date : 2022-02-02 Dana Chalupa Young
Grounding the analysis in racial formation and identity formation theories, I analyzed how South American immigrants (Argentines, Colombians, and Peruvians) in Ohio contend with South American and US racial structures and racialization—or what I call Mexicanization—and how they view their racial and ethnic identities. Mexicanization is a specific racialization or homogenization based on Mexican and
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From ethnic market niche to a post-ethnic marketplace: A national profile of Latino-owned business market orientation Latino Studies Pub Date : 2022-02-02 Michael J. Pisani
Recent rapid increases in the number of Latino-owned businesses (LOBs) in the United States far outpace the growth in the number of businesses generally. In many ways, the growth and success of LOBs are very important to a healthy business, economic, and entrepreneurial ecosystem nationally. Yet there are few national studies of Latino-owned businesses, their characteristics, or their market orientation
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This is my country, get out! A color-blind approach to racist nativism Latino Studies Pub Date : 2022-02-02 Candace E. Griffith
Nativism and racism have long been looked at as separate ideological frameworks. More recent scholarship has fused these two concepts together to form racist nativism (Huber et al. in Contemp Justice Rev 11:39–51, 2008; Lippard in Sociol Compass 5:591–606, 2011). As racism scholars have also established the construct of color-blind racism (Bonilla-Silva in Racism without racists: color-blind racism
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Sunbelt diaspora: Race, class, and Latino politics in Puerto Rican Orlando Latino Studies Pub Date : 2022-02-02 Fernando I. Rivera
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Aesthetics of excess: The art and politics of Black and Latina embodiment Latino Studies Pub Date : 2022-02-02 Kristie Soares
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Brown trans figurations: Rethinking race, gender, and sexuality in Chicanx/Latinx studies Latino Studies Pub Date : 2022-02-02 Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes
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Side by side: US empire, Puerto Rico, and the roots of American Youth literature and culture Latino Studies Pub Date : 2022-02-02 Trevor Boffone
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Fieldwork during a pandemic: Navigating personal grief and practicing researcher flexibility. Latino Studies Pub Date : 2022-01-31 Karina Santellano
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Operation Granma G Latino Studies Pub Date : 2021-11-25 Rosario, Nelly
Rosario’s speculative novel-in-progress, tentatively titled How the Medicines Go Down, offers reparative visions of a not-too-distant future populated by people of the Global South who reclaim stewardship of their own well-being and that of their environment. Driving the narrative is a Dominican physician who dreams of practicing medicine on MedIsla, an elite resort destination for well-to-do medical
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Hairpiece: A photo essay featuring Yolanda Lopez Latino Studies Pub Date : 2021-11-24 Lopez, Yolanda, Martínez, Katynka Z.
Headnote Chicana visual artist Yolanda Lopez began sharing her artwork with the public in 1969, when she created posters in support of the legal defense of seven Central American youth falsely accused of killing a San Francisco police officer. Here began her lifelong pursuit of creating politically powerful visual images. Since then, she created artworks and installations that support immigrant rights
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Notes from the Trail of Dreams: The KKK, face-offs, and radical risk-taking movidas Latino Studies Pub Date : 2021-11-24 Ramirez Solórzano, Rafael
In 2010, a national movement emerged, led by undocumented/undocuqueer youth and guided by the slogan, “Undocumented and Unafraid.” This article offers an alternative framework to dynamically capture the ways that migrant youth inspired a movement through adopting risk-taking acts, known as “radical risk-taking movidas,” that centered a new vision of racial solidarity within the fight for migrant rights
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Special issue: The art of Latina and Latino elderhood Latino Studies Pub Date : 2021-11-24 Katynka Z. Martínez,Mérida M. Rúa
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Reflections of an aging Chicano boomer: Growing old in the time of demographic transformation Latino Studies Pub Date : 2021-11-16 Torres-Gil, Fernando M.
This article examines the aging of Latino boomers and illustrates the longevity, policy, and personal challenges and opportunities facing the coming of age of the post–World War II generation of Latino/as. This treatise, through a reflective lens, posits that with segmented assimilation we can no longer generalize the aging of Latinos as one universal reality based on immigration from rural backgrounds
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A lesson learned: The beginning and end of life Latino Studies Pub Date : 2021-11-16 Martorell, Antonio
Headnote Antonio Martorell is one of Puerto Rico’s most renowned and prolific graphic-installation- performance artists and writers, an island-based artist who has forged and sustained deep connections to diasporic Puerto Rican communities in the United States. Since the 1960s, when his prints and paintings gained notice, Martorell has taken on issues of politics and social critique, especially regarding
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The art of Latina and Latino elderhood: A note from the editor Latino Studies Pub Date : 2021-11-16 Lourdes Torres