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  • Jose de la Garza Valenzuela in nature
    Professor José A. de la Garza Valenzuela's book shows how ‘lawful fictions’ are used to manage immigration, citizenship
    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:...
  • Book cover of rebooting inequality
    New book edited by LLS faculty examines how the contemporary reboot craze perpetuates inequality
    "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...
  • book cover of critical race theory and headshot of Aja Martinez
    New book by professor Aja Y. Martinez recounts history of critical race theory
    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...
  • Jose Atiles
    New book examines the impact of colonialism on Puerto Rico: Interview with LLS affiliate professor Jose Atiles
    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 White Indians of Mexican Cinema
    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, ...
  • Unsettling
    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...
  • Gilberto Rosas
    How have U.S. border policies affected attitudes toward migrants and violence against them? Interview with professor Gilberto Rosas
    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...
  • Image of Puerto Rican Chicago book cover
    Professor Mirelsie Velázquez Receives 2023 American Educational Studies Association Critics' Choice Book Award
    Prof. Mirelsie Velázquez has won the American Educational Studies Association's (AESA) Critics' Choice Book Award for her book...
  • Natalie Lira portrait
    Laboratory of Deficiency: Sterilization and Confinement in California, 1900-1950s
    Professor Natalie Lira's recently published book Laboratory of Deficiency: Sterilization and Confinement in...
  • Ricanness book cover
    RICANNESS: Enduring Time in Anticolonial Performance
    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...
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