Category: Latino Studies

  • Race on the Move: Brazilian Migrants and the Global Reconstruction of Race Stanford University Press February 2015 240 pages Cloth ISBN: 9780804792202 Paper ISBN: 9780804794350 Digital ISBN: 9780804794398 Tiffany D. Joseph, Assistant Professor of Sociology; Affiliated Faculty of Latin American and Caribbean Studies Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York Race on the Move takes…

  • John Rollin Ridge’s Joaquín Murieta: Sensation, Hispanicism, and Cosmopolitanism Western American Literature Volume 49, Number 4, Winter 2015 pages 321-349 DOI: 10.1353/wal.2015.0008 John C. Havard, Assistant Professor Department of English and Philosophy Auburn University, Montgomery, Alabama The mixed-race Cherokee poet, journalist, and novelist John Rollin Ridge’s The Life and Adventures of Joaquín Murieta, the Celebrated…

  • Hispanic Journalists To Survey Race In Spanish-Language TV After Univision Incident The Huffington Post 2015-03-17 Roque Planas Carolina Moreno The National Hispanic Journalists Association applauded Univision’s decision to fire host Rodner Figueroa, after he compared first lady Michelle Obama to a character from “Planet of the Apes” during a segment of “El Gordo Y La…

  • We are Afro-Mexican|”I am Blaxican” Life as Karen: Just setting my soul free. 2015-03-12 Karen Salinas This week I decided to interview my dad; my inspiration for this project. The interview was conducted in Spanish, the English version is translated! Esta semana decidi entrevistar a mi papa; la inspiracion para este proyecto. K: ¿De donde…

  • The Right Words to Say: On Being Read as White The Toast 2015-03-05 Dahlia Grossman-Heinz When you meet me for the first time, you read me as if I were a book. Every idea you have about me and every word I say is part of that book. When you look at me, you will…

  • Yo No Sé Que Hablar — I Don’t Know What To Say Teach. Run. Write. English Teacher Running from One Adventure to the Next 2015-03-02 Christina Torres The man sitting behind me at the restaurant last month was speaking Spanish. So was the park worker the other day, which was a surprise. There was the…

  • EXCLUSIVE: Meet Hip-Hop’s Next Big Thing Nitty Scott, MC Latina 2015-02-13 Raquel Reichard If you’re a hip-hop fan, you may already be familiar with the genre’s latest heavy hitter: Nitty Scott, MC. This year alone the half-Puerto Rican, half-African American artist has been called the next big MC and a woman you should know. And…

  • Arturo O’Farrill: Afro-Latino Heritage Is ‘One Big Culture That We All Share’ The Huffington Post Latino Voices 2015-02-06 Roque Planas, Editor Arturo O’Farrill wants Africa to get the credit it deserves. The New York-based pianist, composer and educator traveled Friday to Los Angeles to attend the Grammys, where his Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra’s “The Offense…

  • Q&A with Carlos E. Cortés, author of “Rose Hill” Heyday 2012-03-21 A poignant memoirist, Carlos E. Cortés brings his past to life in Rose Hill: An Intermarriage before its Time, portraying multiracial relationships and the impact they had on the development of his identity. Sometimes hilarious and at times tragic, this powerful narrative takes the…

  • Discovering Early California Afro-Latino Presence Heyday November 2010 24 pages Paperback, 6 x 9 ISBN: 978-1-59714-145-1 Damany M. Fisher, Professor of History and Political Science Mt. San Antonio College, Walnut, California California’s Afro-Latino heritage Although it is not generally apparent from paintings and other depictions of early California, many members of the pioneering Anza expeditions…