National Hispanic Heritage Month, also recognized as Latinx Heritage Month, (September 15-October 15) celebrates the history and contributions of Americans from or with ancestors from Mexico, the Caribbean, Spain, and Central and South America.
We recognize “Hispanic,” “Latino/a,” and “Latinx” are all highly contested terms of identity that oversimplify the diversity of people and studies from those regions. At ACLS, our intentions are not to be exclusionary or use these terms interchangeably. Instead, we are observing this month to reflect on and share the scholarly work being produced about these regions and the diaspora.
We invited our global community of fellows to share links and PDFs of existing readings, research, curricula, published works, or other resources that they authored or recommend to share with our community that can help in education and reflection on this important area of study.
Please share your contributions, or any questions or comments, with us at [email protected]
ARTICLES
“African Baptisms in Havana, 1590-1600” – Enslaved: Journal of Slavery and Data Preservation , Vol.3, Issue 2, (August 2022) Written by Jane Landers G’22, G’16, F’13, James Schindling, and David Wheat “Agriculture, Foodways and Contemporary Art: Creative Collaborations with the MexiCali Biennial” – Library of Congress Blogs , October 12, 2023 Features the MexiCali Biennial, 2022 ACLS Sustaining Public Engagement Grantee “Big Promises for Immigrants: Will Biden-Harris Reverse the Cycle of Institutional Discrimination?” – Santa Barbara Independent , February 9, 2021 Written by Mario Espinoza-Kulick F’22, Instructor, Cuesta College, San Luis Obispo and President, Latina Leadership Network “Birth Control, Border Control: The Movement for Contraception in El Paso, Texas 1936–1940” – Pacific Historical Review , 90(3), 2021 Written by Lina-Maria Murillo F’21, Assistant Professor of Gender, Women’s and Sexuality Studies and History, The University of Iowa “Construcción de identidades femeninas andinas en la narrativa peruana contemporánea del conflicto armado interno peruano (1980–2000)” – Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies , 44(3), 2019 Written by Evelyn Saavedra Autry F’20, Assistant Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Rutgers University-New Brunswick “Counter Visual Narratives: Central American Art on Migration and Criminalization” – Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies , 2017 Written by Kency Cornejo, Associate Professor of Modern/Contemporary Latin American Art History at the University of New Mexico College of Fine Arts; Submitted by Xiomara Cornejo F’20 “Extremely Latin, XOXO: Notes on LatinX” – Cultural Dynamics , 29(3), 2017 Written by Claudia Milian Professor of Romance Studies at Duke University; Submitted by Nicolás Sánchez-Rodríguez F’19 “From ‘News from the Month of May’” – Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas , Vol. 55, 2022 Written by Julio Cortázar, translated by Marcy Schwartz F’14, Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, Rutgers University-New Brunswick “El idioma crea barreras” – El Latino , 2020 Written by Mario Espinoza-Kulick F’22, Instructor, Cuesta College, San Luis Obispo and President, Latina Leadership Network “I dig through archives to unearth hidden stories from African-American History” – The Conversation , December 2018 Written by Jane Landers G’22, G’16, F’13, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of History at Vanderbilt University “Immigration Policy is Health Policy: News Media Effects on Health Disparities for Latinx Immigrant and Indigenous Groups” – Health Promotion Practice, Volume 24, Issue 5, March 1, 2023 Written by Mario Espinoza-Kulick F’22, Mario Alberto V., Alex Espinoza-Kulick, Elisa González, and Jodene Takahashi “In the Service of White Supremacy: Immigration and Reproductive Violence” – Notches , December 8, 2020 Written by Lina-Maria Murillo F’21, Assistant Professor of Gender, Women’s and Sexuality Studies and History, The University of Iowa “Indigeneity and Decolonial Seeing in Contemporary Art of Guatemala” – FUSE Magazine , 2013 Written by Kency Cornejo, Associate Professor of Modern/Contemporary Latin American Art History at the University of New Mexico College of Fine Arts; Submitted by Xiomara Cornejo F’20 “Investigando una investigación” – Altais Comics , February 15, 2021 Written by Joanne Rappaport F’17, Professor Emerita Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Georgetown University
Beyond policies themselves, this study’s findings also show how news discourse plays a role in shaping the links between immigrant and Indigenous communities and health outcomes. The use of biased language about Latinx communities distorts the public’s perception of risk and threat regarding immigration concerns.
Mario Espinoza-Kulick F’22, Mario Alberto V., Alex Espinoza-Kulick, Elisa González, and Jodene Takahashi
“The Long and Violent History of Anti-Black Racism in the Latino Community” – New York Times , May 12, 2023 Written by Cecilia Márquez F’15, Hunt Family Assistant Professor of History, Duke University “Movement Pandemic Adaptability: Health Inequity and Advocacy among Latinx Immigrant and Indigenous Peoples” – International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(15), July 23, 2022 Written by Mario Espinoza-Kulick F’22, Instructor, Cuesta College, San Luis Obispo and President, Latina Leadership Network “No Text Without Context: Habacuc Guillermo Vargas’ Exposition #1” – Art and Documentation/Sztuka I Dokumentacja , 10, 2014 Written by Kency Cornejo, Associate Professor of Modern/Contemporary Latin American Art History at the University of New Mexico College of Fine Arts; Submitted by Xiomara Cornejo F’20 “The Oppositional Consciousness of Yolanda M. Lopez” – Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies , 34(2), Fall 2009Written by Karen Mary Davalos F’20, Professor of Chicano and Latino Studies at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities “The Question of Central American–Americans in Latino Art and Pedagogy” – Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies , 2015 Written by Kency Cornejo, Associate Professor of Modern/Contemporary Latin American Art History at the University of New Mexico College of Fine Arts; Submitted by Xiomara Cornejo F’20 “The Religious Life of José Antonio Aponte, Military Officer and Anti-Slavery Activist” – Afro-Hispanic Review , Volume 38, Number 1, Spring 2019 Written by Jane Landers G’22, G’16, F’13, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of History at Vanderbilt University “Sin Vergüenza: Chicana Feminist Theorizing” – Feminist Studies , 34(1/2), 2008 Written by Karen Mary Davalos F’20, Professor of Chicano and Latino Studies at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities “Singing Feminist Ch’ixi+ Art Music from las Rajaduras: Renata Flores, Isqun, and the Fractured Locus” – Feminist Formation s, 35(3), 2019 Written by Evelyn Saavedra Autry F’20, Assistant Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Rutgers University-New Brunswick “Testimonio, ficción y las batallas por las memorias en Insensatez de Horacio Castellano Moya” – Vernacular: New Connections in Language, Literature, & Culture 4(1), 2019 Written by Evelyn Saavedra Autry F’20, Assistant Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Rutgers University-New Brunswick “Theses on the Latino Bloc: A Critical Perspective” – Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies , 31(2), Fall 2006Written by Beatrice Pita and Rosaura Sánchez; Submitted by Karen Mary Davalos F’20 “Translating the Backslash” – Chicana/Latina Studies: The Journal of Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social , 4(1), 2004Written by Karen Mary Davalos F’20, Professor of Chicano and Latino Studies at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities and Alicia Partnoy, Human Rights Activist and Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures at the Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts “US Central Americans in Art and Visual Culture” – Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature , February 2019 Written by Kency Cornejo, Associate Professor of Modern/Contemporary Latin American Art History at the University of New Mexico College of Fine Arts; Submitted by Xiomara Cornejo F’20 “Virgen y otros cuentos, el mundo de violencia urbana en Honduras” – La Tribuna , December 1, 2018 Written by Leda Lozier F’21, ACLS Emerging Voices Fellow, Office of International and Summer Programs at Emory University ““We Need Health for All”: M ental Health and Barriers to Services among Latinx (Im)migrants” – International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Volume 19, Issue 19, October 6, 2022 Written by Mario Espinoza-Kulick F’22 and Jessica P. Cerdeña “What Catholic Church records tell us about America’s earliest black history” – The Conversation , February 2019 Written by Jane Landers G’22, G’16, F’13, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of History at Vanderbilt University “Writing Art Histories From Below: A Decolonial Guanaca-Hood Perspective” – Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture , 1(3), 2019 Written by Kency Cornejo, Associate Professor of Modern/Contemporary Latin American Art History at the University of New Mexico College of Fine Arts; Submitted by Xiomara Cornejo F’20 “Yo es otra” – Letras Libres , September 1, 2021 Written by Gaëlle Le Calvez House F’21, ACLS Emerging Voices Fellow, Associate Research Scholar at Yale University
BOOKS
El cobarde no hace historia: Orlando Fals Borda y los inicios de la investigación-acción participativa (Editorial Universidad del Rosario, 2021)Written by Joanne Rappaport F’17, Professor Emerita Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Georgetown University Cowards Don′t Make History: Orlando Fals Borda and the Origins of Participatory Action Research (Duke University Press, 2020)Written by Joanne Rappaport F’17, Professor Emerita Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Georgetown University Dance Between Two Cultures: Latino Caribbean Literature Written in the United States (Vanderbilt University Press, 1997)Written by William Luis F’93, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of Spanish, Vanderbilt University Making the Latino South: A History of Racial Formation (The University of North Carolina Press, 2023) Written by Cecilia Márquez F’15, Hunt Family Assistant Professor of History, Duke University Maxy Survives the Hurricane / Maxy sobrevive el huracan Mi Maria: Surviving the Storm, Voices from Puerto Rico (Haymarket Books, 2021) Edited by Ricia Anne Chansky G’22, University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez and Director, The Oral History Lab @UPRM, and Marci Denesiuk Negotiating Empire: The Cultural Politics of Schools in Puerto Rico, 1898-1952 (The University of Wisconsin Press, 2013) Reading, Writing, and Revolution: Escuelitas and the Emergence of a Mexican American Identity in Texas (University of Texas Press, 2020)Written by Philis M. Barragán Goetz G’21, Assistant Professor of History, Department of Communication, History, and Philosophy, Texas A&M University-San Antonio Undoing Multiculturalism: Resource Extraction and Indigenous Rights in Ecuador (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021)Written by Carmen Martínez Novo F’17, Professor, Center for Latin American Studies, University of Florida and Editor in Chief, Latin American Research Review
BOOK CHAPTERS
“Mapping gender violence narratives in the Northern Triangle of Central America” – Intimate Partner Violence, Risk and Security (Taylor & Francis Group, 2018) Written by Leda Lozier F’21, ACLS Emerging Voices Fellow, Office of International and Summer Programs at Emory University “Artistas en Resistencia/Artists in Resistance—Honduras” – Collective Situations (Duke University Press, 2017) Written by Kency Cornejo, Associate Professor of Modern/Contemporary Latin American Art History, University of New Mexico College of Fine Arts; Submitted by Xiomara Cornejo F’20 “Introduction” – Rereading the Black Legend: The Discourses of Religious and Racial Difference in the Renaissance Empires (University of Chicago Press, 2008) Written by Margaret R. Greer, Walter D. Mignolo, and Maureen Quilligan; Submitted by Nicolás Sánchez-Rodríguez F’19 “The Latino Imaginary: Dimensions of Community and Identity” – Tropicalizations: Transcultural Representations of Latinidad (Dartmouth College Press, 2004) Written by Juan Flores, Former Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis and Director of Latino Studies at New York University; Submitted by Karen Mary Davalos F’20
DIGITAL ARCHIVE
Chicana por mi Raza Digital Memory Collective is a group of researchers, educators, students, archivists and technologists dedicated to preserving imperiled Chicanx and Latinx histories of the long Civil Rights Era.
Project directed by Maria E. Cotera F’18
EXHIBITION CATALOG
MAGAZINE
PODCASTS
“A Conversation between Evelyn Autry, Katia Yosa, and poet Dina Ananco” – Humanidades Ambientales , August 19, 2023 Features Evelyn Saavedra Autry F’20, Assistant Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Rutgers University-New Brunswick “Descubriendo el rol de los latinos en el hipismo norteamericano” – Southeastern Conference on Latin America Studies Historias podcast #108, April 2020 Interview with E. Gabrielle Kuenzli F’21, Associate Professor, History Department, University of South Carolina Hablemos Escritoras Submitted by Gaëlle Le Calvez House F’21, ACLS Emerging Voices Fellow, Associate Research Scholar at Yale University
RADIO
Central Coast Voices, KCBX: Central Coast Public Radio Hosted by Mario Espinoza-Kulick F’22, Instructor, Cuesta College, San Luis Obispo and President, Latina Leadership Network “Horse Racing and Horse Culture in South Carolina and Beyond” – South Carolina Public Radio , March 20, 2020 Interview with E. Gabrielle Kuenzli F’21, Associate Professor, History Department, University of South Carolina “Latinx culture, more than Cinco de Mayo” – Central Coast Voices, KCBX , May 5, 2022 Hosted by Mario Espinoza-Kulick F’22, Instructor, Cuesta College, San Luis Obispo and President, Latina Leadership Network“The legacy of Cesar Chavez” – Central Coast Voices, KCBX , March 31, 2022 Hosted by Mario Espinoza-Kulick F’22, Instructor, Cuesta College, San Luis Obispo and President, Latina Leadership Network
TEXTBOOKS
Introduction to Ethnic Studies (Open Educational Resource: LibreTexts, 2023) Written by Kay Fischer, Mario Alberto Viveros Espinoza-Kulick F’22, Ulysses Acevedo, Teresa Hodges, Melissa Leal, and Tamara Cheshire New Directions in Chicanx and Latinx Studies (Open Educational Resource: LibreTexts, 2023) Written by Amber Rose González, Mario Alberto Viveros Espinoza-Kulick F’22, Melissa Moreno, Lucha Arévalo F’22, and Eddy Francisco Alvarez Jr.
VIDEOS
“Horse Racing in the South: A Conversation with Gabi Kuenzli” – Southern Studies Podcast at the University of South Carolina , May 2023 Interview with E. Gabrielle Kuenzli F’21, Associate Professor, History Department, University of South Carolina Interview with “La Trifecta Program” – America’s Best Racing , June 2, 2022 Interview with E. Gabrielle Kuenzli F’21, Associate Professor, History Department, University of South Carolina “The Race to Save Endangered African History across the Atlantic World”” – TEDx Nashville, 2022 Presented by Jane Landers G’22, G’16, F’13, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of History at Vanderbilt University Todavia estamos aqui [email protected] Co-created by Ricia Anne Chansky G’22, University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez and Director, The Oral History Lab @UPRM “We Are Sudamerican Rockers” – Los Prisioneros (first video ever played on MTV Latino that paodies rock aesthetics) Submitted by Nicolás Sánchez-Rodríguez F’19
WEBSITES
Afro-Latinx Lab Submitted by Sarah Elizabeth Bruno F’20, ACLS Emerging Voices Postdoctoral Fellow, Franklin Humanities Institute and Cultural Anthropology, who is also a contributor to the site Black Latinas Know Collective Submitted by Sarah Elizabeth Bruno F’20, ACLS Emerging Voices Postdoctoral Fellow, Franklin Humanities Institute and Cultural Anthropology, who is also a contributor to the site Borderlands History blogCo-edited by Lina-Maria Murillo F’21, Assistant Professor of Gender, Women’s and Sexuality Studies and History, The University of Iowa Chicagolandia Oral History Project Created by Antonio Ramirez F’19, Associate Professor of History, Elgin Community College Chicana por mi Raza Digital Memory Collective Submitted by Maria E. Cotera F’18, Director of the Chicana por mi Raza Digital Memory Collective Comiendo A Través Del Desastre: Inseguridad Alimentaria En Puerto Rico / Eating Through Disaster: Food Insecurity in Puerto Rico displayed in the Climates of Inequality online exhibition curated by the Humanities Action Lab “‘El Otro Lado’ (The Other Side): Border Art Histories of the MexiCali Biennial” – Library of Congress Land of Milk & Honey: California’s Agricultural Histories in Contemporary Art
