In 1814 Paraguay forbade European-only marriages as part of their post-colonial reckoning. My keyword searches are failing to find out if other Central or #SouthAmerican countries enacted similar laws and how #historians discuss the impetus & outcome of these laws. In other words: What other countries forced interracial marriages and did this successfully lead to racial equality?
Can #histodons help a girl out?
#BlackMastodon #LatinXStudies #Hispanic
Congrats to Xiomara Verenice Cervantes-Gómez! Her new book Bottoms Up: Queer Mexicanness and Latinx Performance is out now from NYU Press and offers a vibrant queer of color read of the imbrications of sexual and political power and ethics in the making of Mexican and Latinx identities. https://nyupress.org/9781479829163/bottoms-up/
Happy publication day to Ideas on Fire author Stephanie Canizales! Her new book Sin Padres, Ni Papeles: The Life and Labor of Unaccompanied Youth in the US is out now from the University of California Press. A must-read for August!
https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520396197/sin-padres-ni-papeles
Each year, thousands of youth endure harrowing unaccompanied and undocumented migrations across Central America and Mexico to the United States in pursuit of a better future. Drawing on the firsthand narratives of migrant youth in Los Angeles, California, Stephanie L. Canizales shows that while a lucky few do find reprieve, many are met by resource-impoverished relatives who are unable to support them, exploitative jobs that are no match for the high cost of living, and individualistic social norms that render them independent and alone.
When your indexer sends you that first index draft, it can be thrilling to see for the first time how readers conceptualize your book.
Here is what to look for in an index draft and how to address any changes you may want your indexer to make.
https://ideasonfire.net/reviewing-your-index-draft/
#Indexing #AcademicPublishing #GenderStudies #QueerStudies #IdeasOnFire #EthnicStudies #TransgenderStudies #BlackStudies #LatinxStudies #ProfessorLife
Setting up virtual writing accountability systems allows you to get the social support and validation you need to finish your writing projects and makes the process much more fun as well.
Here is how to set up virtual writing accountability systems that fit your goals, time, and resources. https://ideasonfire.net/virtual-writing-accountability/
#AcademicWriting #WritingTips #WritingGoals #GenderStudies #QueerStudies #IdeasOnFire #EthnicStudies #DisabilityStudies #TransStudies #BlackStudies #LatinxStudies
An index is the map that lets readers navigate a book and ultimately use it in their own work. A scholarly book in any field benefits enormously from having a great index. But for interdisciplinary books in particular, a great index isn’t just “nice to have”—it’s imperative.
https://ideasonfire.net/interdisciplinary-index/
#Interdisciplinarity #ScholarlyPublishing #IdeasOnFire #GenderStudies #QueerStudies #EthnicStudies #DisabilityStudies #TransgenderStudies #MediaStudies #LatinxStudies #BlackStudies #FeministStudies
In this #ImagineOtherwise conversation with Jessica Nydia Pabón-Colón, Cathy Hannabach interviews Jessica about how women graffiti writers perform feminism, what a feminist approach to arts curating looks like, and so much more.
https://ideasonfire.net/82-jessica-nydia-pabon-colon/
#FeministGraffiti #FeministStreetArt #LatinxStudies #CulturalStudies #NYUPress
“How do we look at the underground not only as a different physical space but also a different space of possibility?”
On the latest episode of Imagine Otherwise, Juan Llamas-Rodriguez explains how representations of tunnels along the Mexico–US border shape public policy as well as how activists, artists, and scholars are reimagining the political possibilities of these spaces.
https://ideasonfire.net/158-juan-llamas-rodriguez
#MediaStudies #InfrastructureStudies #IoFAuthors #LatinxStudies #AcademicPodcasts
How do media representations of US–Mexico border tunnels shape immigration discourse, public policy, and anti-immigrant violence?
In the latest episode of Imagine Otherwise, host Cathy Hannabach speaks with #IoFAuthor and @AnnenbergPenn professor Juan Llamas-Rodriguez about his new @UMinnPress book Border Tunnels: A Media Theory of the US–Mexico Underground.
https://ideasonfire.net/158-juan-llamas-rodriguez
#MediaStudies #InfrastructureStudies #IoFAuthors #LatinxStudies #AcademicPodcasts
New #ImagineOtherwise episode alert! Host Cathy Hannabach interviews Ideas on Fire author and @AnnenbergPenn professor Juan Llamas-Rodriguez about the representation of border tunnels in US media about the Mexico–US border.
They also delve into the research for Juan’s new book Border Tunnels: A Media Theory of the US–Mexico Underground, which was recently published by @UMinnPress.
https://ideasonfire.net/158-juan-llamas-rodriguez
#MediaStudies #InfrastructureStudies #IoFAuthors #LatinxStudies
Alessa Giampaolo Keener
Ideas on Fire