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 […]
Category: latino studies
“Chicana/o and Latina/o Fiction” By Ylce Irizarry Winner of NACCS Book Award
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, […]
UI Press Books Win 2017 MLA Prizes
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 […]
Throwbacklist Thursday: The Immigrant Songs
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, […]
Q&A with Becoming Julia de Burgos author Vanessa Pérez Rosario
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: […]
Best of Illinois: Turn the page
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 […]
Intersecting queer rights and immigration rights
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. […]
Illegal author José Ángel N.’s open letter to President Obama
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 […]
Annexing an island in the empire
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 […]
Q&A with Maya Market Women author S. Ashley Kistler
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, […]
Q&A with Sex Tourism in Bahia author Erica Lorraine Williams
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 […]
The story of immigrant rights advocate Elvira Arellano continues
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 […]