Edited by Vershawn Ashanti Young and Aja Y. Martinez (National Council of Teachers of English). This edited collection offers various perspectives on why code-meshing―blending minoritized dialects and world Englishes with Standard English―is a better pedagogical alternative than code-switching in the teaching of reading, writing, listening, speaking, and visually representing to diverse...
Faculty Publications
by Aja Y. Martinez (National Council of Teachers of English). Martinez makes a compelling case for counterstory as methodology in rhetoric and writing studies through the well-established framework of critical race theory.
by Aja Martinez and Robert O. Smith (NYU Press). "The Origins of Critical Race Theory" weaves together the many sources of critical race theory, recounting the origin story for one of the most insightful and controversial academic movements in U.S. history.
Co-edited by Gilberto Rosas and Mireya Loza (Duke University Press). This edited collection brings together canonical and cutting-edge humanities and social science scholarship on the US-Mexico border region.
By Gilberto Rosas (Johns Hopkins University Press). In "Unsettling", Gilberto Rosas situates the El Paso Massacre as the latest unsettling consequence of our border crisis and currents of deeply rooted white nationalism embedded in the United States.
By Mirelsie Velázquez (University of Illinois Press). A perceptive look at big-city community building, "Puerto Rican Chicago" reveals the links between justice in education and a people's claim to space in their new home.
By Natalie Lira (University of California Press). "Laboratory of Deficiency" documents the ways Mexican-origin people sought out creative resistance to institutional control and offers insight into how race, disability, and social deviance have been called upon to justify the confinement and reproductive constraint of certain individuals in the name of public health and progress.
By Isabel Molina-Guzmán (University of Arizona Press). Molina-Guzmán probes published interviews with producers and textual examples from hit programs like Modern Family, The Office, and Scrubs to understand how these primetime sitcoms communicate difference in the United States.
By Gilberto Rosas (Duke University Press). Rosas draws on his in-depth ethnographic research among the members of Barrio Libre to understand why they have embraced criminality and how neoliberalism and security policies on both sides of the border have affected the youths' descent into Barrio Libre.
By Isabel Molina-Guzmán (NYU Press). Dangerous Curves traces the visibility of the Latina body in the media and popular culture by analyzing a broad range of popular media including news, media gossip, movies, television news, and online audience discussions