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October 29, 2019 (October 28, 2019)

In Search of Belonging Awarded Bonnie Ritter Outstanding Feminist Book Award from NCA

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We are pleased to announce that In Search of Belonging: Latinas, Media, and Citizenship by Jillian M. Báez has won the Bonnie Ritter Outstanding Feminist Book Award from the Feminist […]

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September 24, 2019 (September 25, 2019)

Celebrating 15 years of Latinos in Chicago and the Midwest

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This year marks the 15th anniversary of the Latinos in Chicago and the Midwest Series. This series documents the histories, challenges, and contributions of Latinos to Chicago and the Midwest. It […]

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July 15, 2019 (July 11, 2019)

Q&A with Robert Lemon, author of “The Taco Truck: How Mexican Street Food Is Transforming the American City”

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Robert Lemon is an urban and social researcher and documentary filmmaker. His films include Transfusión (2014), a series of vignettes on the cultural implications of taco trucks. He recently answered some questions […]

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July 23, 2018 (July 23, 2018)

A Q&A with Walter Aaron Clark, author of “Los Romeros: Royal Family of the Spanish Guitar”

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Walter Aaron Clark is Distinguished Professor of Musicology and the founder/director of the Center for Iberian and Latin American Music at the University of California, Riverside. His books include Isaac Albéniz: Portrait […]

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July 9, 2018

New Series Editors for Latinos in Chicago and the Midwest

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Just in time for the Latina/o Studies Conference in D.C. this week, the University of Illinois Press is excited to announce that Omar Valerio-Jiménez, and Sujey Vega will be joining Frances R. […]

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July 5, 2018 (July 16, 2018)

Immigration Reading List

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For many, it is impossible to ignore what is happening in the United States right now. As thousands of families have been separated at the border, many of us have […]

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May 29, 2018 (May 24, 2018)

“Chicana/o and Latina/o Fiction” By Ylce Irizarry Winner of NACCS Book Award

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We are pleased to announce that Chicana/o and Latina/o Fiction: The New Memory of Latinidad by Ylce Irizarry has won the National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies Book Award, […]

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December 12, 2017

UI Press Books Win 2017 MLA Prizes

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  We are pleased to announce that Radical Aesthetics and Modern Black Nationalism by GerShun Avilez has won the William Sanders Scarborough Prize from the Modern Language Association (MLA). The […]

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November 3, 2016 (November 2, 2016)

Throwbacklist Thursday: The Immigrant Songs

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Pretty much every world religion and ethical system makes a virtue of offering succor to travelers, the rootless, and the persecuted. Immigration, the social-political system we’ve constructed around those ideas, […]

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February 26, 2015 (February 25, 2015)

Q&A with Becoming Julia de Burgos author Vanessa Pérez Rosario

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Vanessa Pérez Rosario is an associate professor of Puerto Rican and Latino Studies at City University of New York, Brooklyn College, and the editor of Hispanic Caribbean Literature of Migration: […]

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December 17, 2014 (December 9, 2014)

Best of Illinois: Turn the page

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Oft-imitated, rarely surpassed, The Best of Illinois: Vol. 1 catalog provides one-stop shopping for the best books on all facets of the ever-fascinating Land of Lincoln. Shrooms, the Mafia, music […]

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October 15, 2014 (October 15, 2014)

Intersecting queer rights and immigration rights

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How are queerness and immigration linked? Karma R. Chávez, author of Queer Migration Politics:  Activist Rhetoric and Coalitional Possibilities, sees many commonalities and barriers for activists in both these communities. […]

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