Professor José A. de la Garza Valenzuela looks at the experiences of queer migrants, and at how immigration practices shape particular fictions about them, in his new book “Queer in a Legal Sense:...
- "Rebooting Inequality: Critical Takes on Film and Television Remakes: (NYU Press) is edited by Isabel Molina-Guzmán, Associate Dean for Student Academic Affairs in the College of LAS and...
- A new book by rhetoric and history scholars examines the origins of critical race theory in legal studies. The movement is an area of legal scholarship that seeks to understand the relationship...
- Powerful hurricanes, the COVID-19 pandemic, spiraling public debt and political corruption triggered humanitarian, economic and environmental crises in Puerto Rico. However, a new book suggests that...
- The Department of Latina/Latino Studies is proud to announce that affiliate professor Mónica García Blizzard’s book, ...
- The Department of Latina/Latino Studies is proud to announce that professor Gilberto Rosas’s book Unsettling: The El Paso Massacre...
- On Aug. 3, 2019, a shooter killed 23 people and injured two dozen more in an El Paso, Texas, Walmart. The gunman, who posted an anti-immigration manifesto online before the shooting, targeted Latinos...
- Prof. Mirelsie Velázquez has won the American Educational Studies Association's (AESA) Critics' Choice Book Award for her book...
- Professor Natalie Lira's recently published book Laboratory of Deficiency: Sterilization and Confinement in...
- In 1954, Dolores “Lolita” Lebrón and other members of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party led a revolutionary action on the chambers of Congress, firing shots at the ceiling and calling for the...