Category Archives: latino studies

November 3, 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, plays a vital role in the narratives of many nations. … Continue reading →

February 26, 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: Narratives of Displacement. She recently answered some questions about her … Continue reading →

December 17, 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 of every kind—BOIV1 offers the perfect gift for the hip … Continue reading →

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. “One of the things you really see over the last … Continue reading →

July 29, 2014

Illegal author José Ángel N.’s open letter to President Obama

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José Ángel N. is an undocumented immigrant who lives in Chicago. In his memoir Illegal: Reflections of an Undocumented Immigrant, José Ángel writes of his own journey from Mexico to find a new life in America. The crisis of thousands … Continue reading →

July 7, 2014

Annexing an island in the empire

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On July 7, 1898, President William McKinley signed the Newlands Resolution which annexed the Republic of Hawai’i and created the Territory of Hawai’i. The annexation gave the U.S. use of Hawai’i as a military base during The Spanish-American War. In … Continue reading →

June 5, 2014

Q&A with Maya Market Women author S. Ashley Kistler

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S. Ashley Kistler is an assistant professor of anthropology and Latin American and Caribbean Studies at Rollins College. In her new book Maya Market Women: Power and Tradition in San Juan Chamelco, Guatemala, Kistler presents a study of resilient Q’eqchi’-Maya vendors who … Continue reading →

April 14, 2014

Q&A with Sex Tourism in Bahia author Erica Lorraine Williams

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Erica Lorraine Williams is an assistant professor of anthropology at Spelman College.  She answered some questions about her book Sex Tourism in Bahia: Ambiguous Entanglements. Q: For your book research you attended meetings of the group “Aprosba” in Brazil. What is … Continue reading →

March 19, 2014

The story of immigrant rights advocate Elvira Arellano continues

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Elvira Arellano, a Mexican immigrant rights advocate who made headlines when she took refuge in a Chicago church in 2006, has asked refuge in the United States on humanitarian grounds. Arellano was deported to Mexico in 2007 after a lengthy sanctuary … Continue reading →

March 3, 2014

Q&A with Illegal: Reflections of an Undocumented Immigrant author José Ángel N.

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José Ángel N. came to the United States from Mexico in the 1990s with a ninth grade education. An undocumented immigrant, N. traveled to Chicago where he found access to ESL and GED classes. He eventually attended college and graduate school … Continue reading →