This article chronicles the strategies and efforts Chicana/o and Latina/o student activists employed in the demand and creation of the César E. Chávez Center for Higher Education (CECCHE) at Cal Poly Pomona (CPP) between 1990 and 1995. We situate the center’s establishment as the result of student activism. CPP served as a stage whereon students resisted negative campus racial climate by institutionalizing

Paño art consists of elaborate ink drawings on fifteen-by-fifteen-inch cotton handkerchiefs produced by incarcerated Latinos. Paños are private expressions of love, devotion, and resilience made artifacts for public scrutiny at art galleries and museums. Although more than two dozen art exhibitions dedicated to paños have been held from Santa Fe to France since 1996, few scholars have published on

Within the United States, sport has historically been a site for public struggles about equality. Despite the benefits of athletics, US Latinx youth (especially teenage girls) are less likely than other ethnoracial groups to participate in sports. Previous research has shown that gender, socioeconomic status, ethnicity, and language affect sport participation. This study examines those influences on

The Dominican Republic and its relationship with Dominican America have often been studied in relation to the brutal regime of Rafael Trujillo, tíguere masculinity, and the political sphere. Writers like Julia Álvarez and Junot Díaz, as well as anthologies of Dominican women’s writing, form a literary archive that conceives of women’s writing as a perpetual act of rebellion, mostly against Trujillo

Anthologies are fundamental in the formation of literary canons. In order to explore the process of Latino literary canon formation, first, I analyze the nature of anthologies and their role as discourses that contribute to the construction of latinidad. I then present a brief overview of the historical, academic and publishing context that enabled the publication of the anthologies surveyed. A comparative

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Urban life in New York City is structured in ways that accentuate the affective dimensions of migration experiences for Colombianx migrants, who describe soledad as an integral quality of their life, despite being surrounded by the second largest group of Colombianxs in the United States. This ethnographic study draws on more than 8 years of fieldwork to describe the social forces at work in the normalization

The published biography of Prof. Wilson Valentín-Escobar is incorrect. Please find the correct one below: Wilson Valentín-Escobar is Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Massachusetts Lowell where he also directs Bachelor of Liberal Arts.

Although scholars theoretically acknowledge the diversity of the Latina/o/x vote, few studies have investigated similarities or differences beyond those of the largest Latina/o/x groups. To better understand the nuance of the Latina/o/x vote, this article examines the political preferences of Colombian Americans relative to those of other Latina/o/x subgroups in the United States. We pool data from

Intra-Latina/o/x dynamics are fundamental to the negotiation of Latina/o/x identity, especially as Latina/o/xs communities in US cities become increasingly diverse. How Latina/o/xs try to differentiate themselves from one another is a salient, but often overlooked, part of their lived experiences. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Philadelphia, this article explores articulations of Colombianidades

Interwoven with a textual analysis of Colombian electronica band Bomba Estereo’s viral music video “Soy yo” (2016), here I offer an autoethnographic perspective on the experience of Latina feminist media identification for a US Colombiana/Latina viewer unaccustomed to encountering herself in popular media. I trace the numerous moments of what I term “Latina feminist recognition” in “Soy yo,” with an

This article analyzes Patricia Engel’s Vida (Grove Atlantic, New York, 2010) as a groundbreaking novel that narrates the US Colombian diasporic experience. The article argues that becoming and belonging evolve across the intricacies of the transdiasporic journey of class, race, and gender presented throughout the novel. Through a close reading of Vida, the article asserts the importance of this group’s

This article examines the investments of Justin Torres’s debut novel, We the Animals (2012), with Latinidad, queerness and masculinity under the framework of opacity proposed by Edouard Glissant. I argue that Torres’s novel employs opacity—the refusal to be legible to the gaze of a dominant Other—as a way of grappling with the tensions between Latinx and queer identities and textualizing the relationship

This essay details some of the challenges I encountered in the fall of 2016, during my class on contemporary migration flows at Queens College, CUNY. The impending national elections, with Donald Trump as the front-runner in the Republican primaries, made for a tense classroom climate. Early in the semester, a handful of my students began voicing opinions that ran counter to the pro-immigrant principles

This essay examines the transnational racial and ethnic politics of Marie Arana’s American Chica and Braulio Munoz’s The Peruvian Notebooks, two literary writings that feature characters who navigate Peruvian, US American, and Latinx connections. As each text’s characters migrate between Peru and the United States, they perform a range of regional, ethnic, and cultural identities that are circumscribed

This article investigates the relationships between immigrant integration and agricultural, environmental sustainability. We provide evidence that ranchitos (Mexican-immigrant owned small rural ranches) serve as an important mechanism for immigrant integration as they regenerate place and belonging via their sustainable agricultural practices. Hence, understanding ranchitos’ roles in rural communities

In April 2016, the documentary Southwest of Salem: The Story of the San Antonio Four premiered to critical acclaim at the Tribeca Film Festival. The film explores the strange series of events that led to the 15-year wrongful incarceration of four queer Latina women for child sexual abuse during the course of “satanic rituals” in San Antonio, Texas, in 1994. This article unpacks the relationship between

Classical paradigms of research often follow a tradition that leaves out the lives of many minoritized and racialized communities. Many Research I universities exist as social bubbles, with little interaction with the communities that surround them. The research that these universities conduct often objectifies communities and does not address the important questions they have. This article shares

This article presents the stories of two groups of transnational language educators of Mexican origin currently working in Mexico and the United States. The stories of the two groups are presented as part of the ongoing circular nature of the US-Mexico migration dynamics. Through life-history research data, we explore the role played by the circumstances and conditions under which the migratory movements

Puerto Rican writer Giannina Braschi’s 2011 novel, The United States of Banana, although brilliant and insightful, has been largely under-examined by literary critics. This may be partially attributed to the complexity of her writing and her predilection for utilizing a dizzying array of avant-garde literary techniques at the service of her trenchant critiques of social issues. In this essay I combine

This paper argues that the United States’ occupation of Puerto Rico is a colonial state of exception. By examining the case of Downes v. Bidwell , I demonstrate the role that race played in the establishment of the state of exception. This unprecedented legal situation and the United States’ inequitable policies toward the island led to the emergence and growth of the Partido Nacionalista de Puerto

The American dream narrative advances the idea that any citizen can achieve success through hard work, but research shows that meritocracy is continually denied to minorities both systemically and through acts of gatekeeping. ABC’s Cristela (2014–2015) presents a quintessential American dream narrative, and we are invited to cheer for the legal intern protagonist because she is hardworking, well-educated

Mexican immigrants to the United States increasingly migrate to relatively new places such as Washington state, which now places in the top eight destination states. States wield increasing power to manage migration and negotiate residency at local scales. Although studies focus on migration debates in national and alternative media, little analysis has been done on newspapers in rural communities

Transnational students constitute a growing population in Mexico. They are part of the returning flow of immigrant families moving from the United States back to Mexico. As students, transnational children represent a challenge to Mexico’s education system as they encounter major identity and linguistic barriers in school settings. Drawing on the literature of bilingualism and positioning theory, we

El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras account for some of the most consequential migration streams in the Western Hemisphere. They are some of the largest contributors to Latino migration in the United States. Fleeing political persecution, gang violence, poverty and natural disasters, migrants are often desperate for social and economic stability. As migration from the region continues, legislation

In 2014, Enrique Iglesias shattered Latin music records with his hit song, “Bailando,” in collaboration with Afro-Cuban artists Descemer Bueno and Gente de Zona, thereby firmly planting himself within the Latin urban music scene. “Bailando” ushered in a new wave of reggaeton-pop fusions that have since dominated the Latin pop market. In so doing, it follows a larger historical trajectory of white Latino

As exemplified by Junot Diaz in The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao and Angie Cruz in Let It Rain Coffee, Dominican diaspora authors grapple with the question of what happens when a central part of a people’s lived experience and embodiment is suppressed by hegemonic national discourses. I argue that in their novels they show that, when blackness is removed from Dominican national discourse and representation

This article is based on in-depth interviews with deferred action for childhood arrivals (DACA) beneficiaries from California and Arizona who traveled to Mexico, their country of origin, for the first time since they had immigrated to the US as small children. Although DACA travelers have acculturated to the US, this article begins to uncover the complexities of national identification and belonging

In the previously published version of this article an error appears in the bibliographic citation (Jiménez-Román, G. 1995). The author cited should be Jímenez-Muñoz, G.

This essay brings together the US Supreme Court’s Boutilier v. INS decision and Arturo Islas’s The Rain God to analyze the negation of homosexual and queer experience in the legal negotiation of access to citizenship. The article brings together methodological frameworks from literary, legal, queer, and Latina/o/x studies to argue that citizenship requires a narrative presence, one that immigration

Undocumented immigrants who have grown up in America, often called DREAMers, generally grow up unaware of their lack of legal status, thinking of themselves as equal and legitimate members of the polity—as Americans. Scholars have noted the high levels of political activism of DREAMers, often at personal risk of detention and deportation. Negrón-Gonzales (Lat Stud 12(2):259–278, 2014) attributes this

Latinas in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (LDS) engage their faith and lived realities through a complicated intersection of religion, race, gender, ethnicity, immigration status, aging, and class. Utilizing oral history, ethnographic interviews, and participant observation, the following analysis explores how LDS Latinas reflected on their experiences in faith, gained leadership skills

In this article I examine the history of the popular “Mexican”-themed South Carolina rest stop, “South of the Border,” in the 1950s and 1960s. By turning to the cultural history of this understudied attraction, I demonstrate that, prior to large-scale migration to the “Nuevo South,” white southerners were developing and transforming racial scripts about Mexicanness. While at the rest stop, white southerners

Researchers across disciplines have analyzed the ethnoracial classification of Latinxs in the US census, as well as the ideological, political, and material underpinnings and effects of such classification. In this article, I advance our understanding of the census’ reproduction of racial identities and racial discourse in two ways. First, I demonstrate that sociolinguistic theory and methods can shed

Using Gloria Anzaldúa’s idea of nepantla alongside critical theories of race and citizenship, this article highlights how Latinx undocumented youth and youth of mixed status families navigate, resist, and at times endorse the various and competing discourses around immigration, citizenship, and illegality. The author uses pláticas as a methodological and pedagogical tool with youth who live in a migrant

Operating out of all Mexican consulates in the United States, the Ventanilla de Salud (VdS) program provides patients with health information, counseling, and referrals to available local health services. This article deals with the emergence of the VdS as the main component of Mexico’s strategy to promote the health of its citizens abroad. This form of outreach arose in the context of existing efforts

This essay describes the emergence of an MFA generation of Latinx writers as a neoliberal phenomenon that offers critics another lens by which to understand the production and critical reception of US Latinx literature. I argue that, with academic institutions training and credentialing authors through creative writing programs, the market and culture of an MFA education informs generational shifts

In 2015, Roman Catholic Pope Francis canonized eighteenth-century Franciscan Friar Junípero Serra, founder of nine California missions, after a long and controversial process in which the decision was opposed on the grounds that it expressed indifference to the human suffering precipitated by Spanish colonization of California. Contrarily, supporters of the canonization argued that the move represented

Hostile and unpredictable immigration policies can have detrimental consequences for children of immigrants. This study provides a snapshot of children’s reactions to anti-immigrant policies in Arizona from 2007 to 2010. Through a visual content narrative analysis of 115 drawings by children in a community-run after-school program in Maricopa County, Phoenix, Arizona, this study chronicles, analyzes

Under the Trump administration, with its claims about “fake news,” speaking truth to power has become simultaneously more pressing and more difficult. “LatinX” has emerged in this context and become a symbol online and in academia for a new collective identity. This paper argues LatinX is deployed to replace, rather than complement, long-standing struggles to recognize gendered identities. This replacement

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 Latinx as a site of possibilities, while clarifying its potential use and the reasoning behind it. Rather than seeing the use of Latinx as a trend, or a rupture, in linguistic usage, we see its use as a continuity of internal shifting group dynamics

Drawing on ethnographic research conducted in New York City, I argue that the negotiation of ethnic identifications among Latina/os is informed by shared understandings of the relative status of Latina/o subgroups, in what is, essentially, a hierarchy of relative privilege and prestige. The statuses of distinct Latina/o groups, and the shared understandings that people have about these statuses, set

As the United States ascended to hyper-power status during the late 1970s, it changed colonial policy in Puerto Rico. The change, which included the elimination of favorable tax legislation and demilitarization, devastated Puerto Rico’s economy. Puerto Rico borrowed heavily in a failed effort to offset the dramatic decline in capital inflows. The federal government enacted PROMESA after Puerto Rico

This reflexión pedagógica discusses the lessons scholars and teachers of Latinx history can learn from the historical vision put forward in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s 2015 Broadway musical Hamilton. Following a discussion of the origins of Miranda’s Latinx-inflected view of the life and times of Alexander Hamilton, the article places his approach within the context of the existing historiography on US-Latinx

Recent Latinx young adult literature (YA) serves as a window into how authors narrate the promises and failures of cultural nationalism of past generations and how they imagine youth participating in revolutionary practices today, including accessing alternative forms of literature and education beyond established academia. This article places YA in its context as a US tradition in which authors have

How similar to or different from each other do metropolitan Miami’s Latin@s currently view themselves as they interact in a distinctive Hispanic-dominant space? To investigate this question, Latin@ college students from seven ethnicities/nationalities prominent in the region were interviewed and asked to identify both what they viewed as commonalities shared by all Latin@s in the area as well as what

The demographic diversification of the Latino population, in terms of both generational change and national origin, calls for the exploration of intra-group dynamics within the often-asserted but rarely investigated Latino communities. These demographic shifts are particularly salient in the Miami-Dade County, Florida, metropolitan area, making it an ideal case study for investigating pan-ethnic social

This article centralizes the work of Central American US diasporic writers and artists within memory studies while expanding on the emergent ways of seeing and being for US-born or raised Central Americans. I posit that the three cultural makers portrayed in this essay—William Archila (poet), Dalila Paola Mendez (artist), and Cristina Henríquez (novelist)—represent a tendency of writers and artists

This essay explores how Latina/o students become professionalized in the university—how their pursuit of middle-class social mobility often goes hand in hand with a shameful disavowal of their working-class, racialized identity and an adoption of what I term an “affective anemia” toward Latina/o immigrant laborers. First, I examine how higher education can promote and foster this affective anemia as

Building on Menjívar's (Am J Sociol 111(4):999–1037, 2006) concept of legal liminality, this article examines the negative effects of the transition from a temporary to a permanent legal status for Colombian migrant professionals. Drawing from thirty-one in-depth interviews with Colombian computer engineers who migrated in the 1990s, this study reveals how legal status adjustment stipulations invalidate

US Central Americans are destabilizing, reconceiving, and revitalizing the US Latina/o canon, and in doing so, they are forcing us to reconsider hegemonic ideas about Latinidad. The cultural production of Latinos/as of Central American descent has engaged in a critical denunciation of the violence that characterizes not only the history, but also the current situation, of the Central American isthmus

This essay explores the underrepresentation of Cuban American literature in Latin@ literary studies, probing into possible explanations for its marginalization in the field. I call attention to scholarship that has tended to portray Cuban American writing as fundamentally different from other Latin@ literatures with respect to politics, ideology, and historical trajectory. I then challenge such critical

This article examines how Hispanic immigrants are economically incorporated into Newburgh, New York, a new immigrant destination historically characterized by a weak economy, high levels of poverty and unemployment. More specifically, I examine (1) the transformation of the labor market in light of increased migration; (2) the impact Hispanic immigrant workers may have on the labor market opportunities

This essay analyzes the multilayered causes for the recent migration from Honduras of Garífuna mothers and their children in search of political asylum in the United States, including tourist development, dispossession, and drug related violence. Their migration patterns challenge the presumptions and boundaries of three booming research areas in ethnic studies: prison studies, settler colonial studies

This article traces and maps out Indigenous narratives of migration and their relationship to dominant narratives of Latino immigration. It considers the mythic dimensions of Latino immigrant stories and how they shape and silence particular narrative threads. Through a focus on two Yucatec Maya women’s immigration stories, this study pushes beyond an ethnicity approach to immigration. The rise of

This article analyzes the use of the “Indian” in three Chicana texts involved in romantic couplings that point to what I term as a “mestizaje” naturalized in the Southwest that necessitates a "metamestizaje" reading. A naturalized mestizaje allows the writers to interpellate Indian characters or racialized others from the south into the larger Latino family. I argue that by doing so, the novelists

This article examines how La Comunidad Ixim, a collective of young second-generation Mayas and Guatemalans in Los Angeles, bridge their family histories and the political insights gained from their participation in other forms of social justice organizing to create a mobile archive of indigeneity. Mobile archives of indigeneity are archives that document the epistemologies and experiences of Maya migrants

This brief reflection traces my experiences in doing work on immigration at the intersection of Latino Studies and the discipline of Sociology. My reflections capture the challenges and rewards of focusing my entire career on the study of Central American migration and the significant contributions I am able to make to a broader scholarship from this specific location.

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This essay demonstrates the connection between the processes of “ruination” (a term I borrow from Ann Stoler to explain deliberate abandonment and destruction in contemporary urban spaces) and the surveillance/control of bodies (particularly everyday forms of control by nonstate actors) and argues that the necropolitical strategies of ruination and control are important lenses through which to read