by Valeria Manzano
Twenty-five years ago, University of California Press published Refried Elvis: The Rise of the Mexican Counterculture by Eric Zolov. The book traced Mexican rock and roll from the 1950s, when it was heavily influenced by U.S. bands, to the emergence of a full-blow...
Every year the National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies (NACCS) awards the Antonia I. Castañeda Prize to recognize historical scholarship that examines the intersections of class, race, gender, and sexuality, as it relates to Chicana/Latina and/or Native/Indigenous women. ...
This post was originally published on the USC Equity Research Institute (ERI) blog and is reposted here with permission.
By Xochitl Bada and Shannon Gleeson authors of Scaling Migrant Worker Rights: How Advocates Collaborate and Contest State Power
Low-wage labor in the United S...
Pressing Onward: The Imperative Resilience of Latina Migrant Mothers centers the stories of mothers who migrated from Latin America, settled in New Haven, Connecticut, and overcame trauma and ongoing adversity to build futures for their children. These migrant mothers enact imperative ...
This interview was originally published on the UCI School of Social Sciences site by Heather Ashbach, and is reposted here with permission.
Award-winning Author Laura Enriquez
Immigration policy is fundamentally reshaping Latino families and perpetuating inequality, says UCI Chican...
Photo credit: Mike Glier
As a professor American studies and ethnicity at USC, Natalia Molina has spent her career studying race, citizenship, and the experiences of immigrants in the U.S. Last year, Molina was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in honor of her “revealing how narratives of...
UC Press is thrilled to share that USC professor and UC Press author Natalia Molina has been named a 2020 MacArthur Fellow.
Each year, the MacArthur Fellowship, which includes a $625,000 stipend, is awarded “to extraordinarily talented and creative individuals as an investment in t...
By Catherine S. Ramírez, author of Assimilation: An Alternative History
“Hispanics are not just a significant part of our Nation’s origin; they are essential to America’s future.”US Senators Orrin G. Hatch and Paul Simon, on the creation of National Hispanic Heritage Month, April 15, 1...
As we begin National Hispanic Heritage Month, we invited Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture contributor Gigi Otálvaro-Hormillosa to talk about her ALAA award-winning article “Metamorphic and Sensuous Brown Bodies: Queer Latina/x Visual and Performance Cultures in San Francisco S...
We are looking forward to celebrating the first anniversary of Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture at the College Art Association’s annual conference in Chicago this week. Last year at CAA, we announced the publication of the first issue of LALVC, with scholarly articles covering...