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Sideways Selves
Travesti and Jotería Struggles Across the Américas
By PJ DiPietro
University of Texas Press
How trans and non-binary networks engage in decoloniality across hemispheres.
Bridging Sonic Borders
Popular Music in Contemporary Dominican/Dominicanyork Literature
University of Texas Press
How music depicted in literature shapes Dominican and Dominican New Yorkers’ identities and links the homeland to the diaspora.
Revolting Indolence
The Politics of Slacking, Lounging, and Daydreaming in Queer and Trans Latinx Culture
University of Texas Press
How indolent practices in Latinx LGBTQ culture challenge capitalist imperatives to be productive.
Clicas
Gender, Sexuality, and Struggle in Latina/o/x Gang Literature and Film
By Frank García
University of Texas Press
How Latina/o/x gang literature and film represent women and gay gang members’ challenges to gendered, sexual, racial, and class oppression.
Invisibility and Influence
A Literary History of AfroLatinidades
University of Texas Press
A rich literary study of AfroLatinx life writing, this book traces how AfroLatinxs have challenged their erasure in the United States and Latin America over the last century.
Narcomedia
Latinidad, Popular Culture, and America's War on Drugs
By Jason Ruiz
University of Texas Press
Exploring representations of Latinx people from Scarface to Narcos, this book examines how pop culture has framed Latin America as the villain in America’s long and ineffectual War on Drugs.
Channeling Knowledges
Water and Afro-Diasporic Spirits in Latinx and Caribbean Worlds
University of Texas Press
How water enables Caribbean and Latinx writers to reconnect to their pasts, presents, and futures.
Reclaiming the Americas
Latinx Art and the Politics of Territory
University of Texas Press
How Latinx artists around the US adopted the medium of printmaking to reclaim the lands of the Americas.
Visible Borders, Invisible Economies
Living Death in Latinx Narratives
University of Texas Press
A thorough examination of the political and economic exploitation of Latinx subjects, migrants, and workers through the lens of Latinx literature, photography, and film.
Crossing Waters
Undocumented Migration in Hispanophone Caribbean and Latinx Literature & Art
University of Texas Press
An innovative study of the artistic representations of undocumented migration within the Hispanophone Caribbean.
From Threatening Guerrillas to Forever Illegals
US Central Americans and the Cultural Politics of Non-Belonging
University of Texas Press
A meticulous survey of US media treatments of Central Americans.
Brown Trans Figurations
Rethinking Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Chicanx/Latinx Studies
University of Texas Press
One of the first books focused solely on the trans Latinx experience, Brown Trans Figurations describes how transness and brownness interact within queer, trans, and Latinx historical narratives and material contexts.
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