Category Archives: latino studies

August 16, 2012

New Journal: Women, Gender, and Families of Color

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This month, UIP launches a new journal in cooperation with the University of Kansas. Women, Gender, and Families of Color expands the mission of Black Women, Gender, and Families, which has ceased publication. The new title explicitly includes Black, Latina, … Continue reading →

October 18, 2011

Q&A with Compañeros author Jesus Ramirez-Valles

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On November 7, 2011, we will officially publish Jesus Ramirez-Valles’s new book Compañeros: Latino Activists in the Face of AIDS, which details how eighty gay, bisexual, and transgender (GBT) Latino activists and volunteers living in Chicago and San Francisco have … Continue reading →

September 23, 2011

Chicanas of 18th Street

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Leonard G. Ramirez’s new book, Chicanas of 18th Street: Narratives of a Movement from Latino Chicago, with contributions by Yenelli Flores, María Gamboa, Isaura González, Victoria Pérez, Magda Ramírez-Castañeda, and Cristina Vital, recently landed on my desk. The official publication date is … Continue reading →

July 28, 2011

Q&A with La Voz Latina co-editor Elizabeth C. Ramírez

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Elizabeth C. Ramírez is the is the fine arts specialist administrator with the Edgewood Independent School District of San Antonio, Texas, and co-editor of the new book La Voz Latina: Contemporary Plays and Performance Pieces by Latinas. ***** Q: You have … Continue reading →

October 22, 2010

Marc Zimmerman at LASA

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Marc Zimmerman attended the Latin American Studies Association‘s annual meeting in Toronto earlier this month.  He is pictured here at the Scholarly Book Services booth where he signed copies of Bringing Aztlán to Mexican Chicago: My Life, My Work, My Art, the … Continue reading →

September 16, 2010

Book trailer for Bringing Aztlan to Mexican Chicago

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On August 2, 2010, we published Bringing Aztlán to Mexican Chicago: My Life, My Work, My Art, the autobiography of José Gamaliel González.  Born near Monterrey, Mexico, and eventually settling in Chicago, González founded two major art groups: El Movimiento Artístico Chicano … Continue reading →

July 22, 2010

Amalia Pallares on WGN-TV’s Midday News

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  Amalia Pallares, co-editor of the new book Â¡Marcha! Latino Chicago and the Immigrant Rights Movement, was interviewed July 22, 2010, on WGN-TV’s Midday News.

December 16, 2009

Impressions of a Son by F. Geoffrey Samora

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I was asked by the editors to respond to the essays written in the book, Moving Beyond Borders: Julian Samora and the Establishment of Latino Studies.  Julian’s former students recall encounters with him and his wife Betty that impressed them … Continue reading →