New Books in Latino Studies
Interviews with Scholars of Latino Culture and History about their New Books
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- Interviews with Scholars of Latino Culture and History about their New Books
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2024-12-30 19:29
- last episode published
- 2024-12-30 09:00
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- 16.28 days
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- Marshall Poe
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- 361
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| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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| 2024-12-30 | In 2020, Latinos became the second largest ethnic voting group in the country. They make up the largest plurality of residents in the most populous states in the union, as well as the fastest segment of the most important swing states in the US Elector... |
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| 2024-12-14 | In Civil Rights in Bakersfield: Segregation and Multiracial Activism in the Central Valley (University of Texas Press, 2024), Oliver Rosales uncovers the role of the multiracial west in shaping the course of US civil rights history. Focusing on Bakersf... |
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| 2024-12-10 | In 1980, Charles Wetli---a Miami-based medical examiner and self-proclaimed “cult expert” of Afro-Caribbean religions---identified what he called “excited delirium syndrome.” Soon, medical examiners began using the syndrome regularly to describe the de... |
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| 2024-12-04 | In Dividing the Public: School Finance and the Creation of Structural Inequity (Cornell UP, 2024), Matthew Gardner Kelly takes aim at the racial and economic disparities that characterize public education funding in the United States. With California a... |
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| 2024-12-03 | In How Schools Make Race: Teaching Latinx Racialization in America (Harvard Education Press, 2025), Dr. Laura C. Chávez-Moreno uncovers the process through which schools implicitly and explicitly shape their students’ concept of race and the often unin... |
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| 2024-11-30 | From 1845 to 1865 the Gulf of Mexico was at the center of American expansion and southern imperialism. A Continuous State of War: Empire Building and Race Making in the Civil War–Era Gulf South (University of Georgia Press, 2024) by Dr. Maria Angela Di... |
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| 2024-11-27 | Deep below the ground in Tucson, Arizona, lies an aquifer forever altered by the detritus of a postwar Superfund site. Disabled Ecologies: Lessons From a Wounded Desert (U California Press, 2024) by Dr. Sunaura Taylor, tells the story of this contamina... |
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| 2024-11-21 |
Without Parents or Papers: A Discussion with Stephanie L. Canizales Today’s book is: Sin Padres, Ni Papeles: Unaccompanied Migrant Youth Coming of Age in the United States (U California Press, 2024), a which explores how each year, thousands of youth endure harrowing unaccompanied and undocumented migrations across Cen... |
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| 2024-11-20 |
Christopher Bell, "Walking East Harlem: A Neighborhood Experience" (Rutgers UP, 2024) They call it Spanish Harlem or sometimes just El Barrio. But for over a century, East Harlem has been a melting pot of many ethnic groups, including Puerto Rican, Dominican, Cuban, and Mexican immigrants, as well as Italian, Jewish, and African America... |
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| 2024-11-19 | Over the past fifty years, debates concerning race and college admissions have focused primarily on the policy of affirmative action at elite institutions of higher education. But a less well-known approach to affirmative action also emerged in the 196... |
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