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Statement on Hate Speech
As a unit committed to social justice and deeply invested in a rich tradition of social critique, the Department of Latina/Latino Studies at the University of Illinois condemns the offensive comments about Latinos, Black Americans, and Jewish Americans, as well as the misogyny, exhibited at a...
Internship Spotlight: Alexa Rodriguez's experience as a TRIO McNair Scholar
During the summer of 2024, LLS major Alexa Rodriguez conducted research as a TRIO McNair Scholar. She wrote to us about her experience.
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Internship Spotlight: Adriana Serrano Matsumoto's experience as a legislative intern for Senator Dick Durbin
During the spring of 2024, LLS major Adriana Serrano Matsumoto was an intern for Senator Dick Durbin. She wrote to us about her experience.
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2024 LLS Major Symposium
During the Spring 2024 semester, the LLS Class of 2024 presented their senior papers and theses at the annual LLS Major Symposium. This event brought together LLS students, faculty, and family to celebrate the wonderful research our students produced. We also celebrated our 2024 graduates and award...
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Narratives of law: Professor José A. de la Garza Valenzuela explores queer Chicano citizenship through the law and literature
What can literature tell us about how people experience the law and how is the law like literature? Professor José A. de la Garza Valenzuela has been writing a book, "Queer in a Legal Sense: Brown Citizenship and Other Lawful Fictions," that centers these questions to understand what books tell us...
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LLS affiliate professor Mónica García Blizzard’s book “The White Indians of Mexican Cinema” receives Honorable Mention from International Latino Book Awards
The Department of Latina/Latino Studies is proud to announce that affiliate professor Mónica García Blizzard’s book, The White Indians of Mexican Cinema: Racial Masquerade throughout the Golden Age, has...
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Professor Gilberto Rosas’ book "Unsettling" receives honorable mention for 2024 American Ethnological Society Senior Book Prize
The Department of Latina/Latino Studies is proud to announce that professor Gilberto Rosas’s book Unsettling: The El Paso Massacre, Resurgent White Nationalism, and the US-Mexico Border has received an honorable mention...
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Mirelsie Velázquez
Mirelsie Velázquez is an interdisciplinary scholar whose work centers history of education, women's history, Puerto Rican studies, gender and sexuality, and teacher education.
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Gilberto Rosas
Gilberto Rosas's research interests include “the state,” racism and its broad complexities, critical ethnography, and experimental writing.
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José A. de la Garza Valenzuela
José A. de la Garza Valenzuela focuses on fiction by gay Chicano writers and his current research investigates the legal underpinnings of queer migrant narrative to shed light on experiences of...
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