Search
Search Results
-
Who are part-Latinos? A demographic portrait of people of partial Latino ancestry
“Part-Latinos” or the offspring of Latino/non-Latino unions account for half of all mixed births in the United States. Yet very little is known about...
-
Pursuant to Deportation: Latinos and Immigrant Detention
This essay explores the historical genealogy of Latino immigrant detention in the United States. As a critical enforcement practice within the...
-
Inventing the Race: Latinos and the Ethnoracial Pentagon
This essay suggests a link between the insufficient strides for full citizenship Latinos have made in American society and their reticence to define...
-
Latinos as the “Living Dead”: Raciality, Expendability, and Border Militarization
This essay proposes a model for analyzing the militarization of the US–Mexico border and, more specifically, the death toll that it has elicited. It...
-
Dancing among older Latinos: Interweaving health and culture
Physical activity (PA) has been linked to health across a multitude of mental and physical outcomes. Given that leisure time PA is mostly related to...
-
Dancing among older Latinos: Interweaving health and culture
Physical activity (PA) has been linked to health across a multitude of mental and physical outcomes. Given that leisure time PA is mostly related to...
-
Jennifer as Selena: Rethinking Latinidad in Media and Popular Culture
This essay argues that the similarities among US Latinos that have emerged from their status as historical minorities and racialized subjects can be...
-
Latino Studies and Latino Criminology: An invitation to engage in the labor of healing in the Neoliberal-Carceral University
Recent scholarship on Latinos and crime has invited scholars to reimagine the scholarly project of Latino Studies more broadly. Existing accounts...
-
The art of Latina and Latino elderhood: A note from the editor
It is widely recognized that Latinos are a sizable and diverse population and that we are a young demographic. The median age of non-Hispanic white...
-
Making Masculinity: Negotiations of Gender Presentation Among Latino Gay Men
Many studies of masculinity examine the experiences of White men, men of color, and White gay men, but often do not incorporate the experiences of...
-
The Art of Latina and Latino Elderhood
It is widely recognized that Latinos are a sizable and diverse population and that we are a young demographic. The median age of non-Hispanic white...
-
Los Amigos de Wallace: Henry Wallace’s 1948 presidential campaign and the bid to capture the Latino vote
This essay analyzes the Latino political organization Amigos de Wallace, created to support the 1948 presidential candidacy of Henry Wallace under...
-
Seeing beyond Black and White to understand anti-Latinx crimes of bias
Hatred towards marginalized racial and ethnic groups has a long history in the U.S. While Latinxs were never exempted from this hostility, historical...
-
“It felt like hitting rock bottom”: A qualitative exploration of the mental health impacts of immigration enforcement and discrimination on US-citizen, Mexican children
Latino immigrant families in the United States were disproportionately affected by intensified interior immigration enforcement under the Trump...
-
How many Latino studies programs are there? Tracking departmental growth, stagnation, and invisibility 1960–2020
This study provides the first systematic analysis of the founding and growth of Latino studies programs across the country. Drawing on a unique data...
-
Reflections of an aging Chicano boomer: Growing old in the time of demographic transformation
This article examines the aging of Latino boomers and illustrates the longevity, policy, and personal challenges and opportunities facing the coming...
-
Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones: A Failed Movie or a Movie Failed?
My paper focuses on Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones (2014; written and directed by Christopher B. Landon) and examines how it, while supposedly...
-
Reflections of an aging Chicano boomer: Growing old in the time of demographic transformation
This article examines the aging of Latino boomers and illustrates the longevity, policy, and personal challenges and opportunities facing the coming...
-
Chapter 1: A note from the editor
Although the conceptual framework of Latinidades is continually called into question for its gaps and exclusions, I remain committed to its...