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Patient conversations with Latino studies authors.
New Books in Latino Studies is an interview series built around recent academic books and the questions that brought them into being. Its conversations move through argument, evidence, and lived consequences without rushing the scholar toward a simplified takeaway.
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New Books in Latino Studies is a long-form interview series organized around recent scholarly books. Its natural unit is not the hot take but the research project. Authors are invited to explain what question animated the work, what sources or communities shaped it, and how the book changes a larger conversation in Latino studies. The pacing is deliberate. Episodes often begin by situating a title, then move through method, archive, field site, argument, and consequence. The subject matter is broad, but the pattern is consistent. A discussion of Orange County citrus capitalism becomes a way to think about Mexican American labor, segregation, and grassroots civil rights. A conversation on queer Indigenous cinema opens onto sovereignty, gender, ceremony, plants, animals, and non-Western frames for embodiment. An episode on Borícua Muslims follows migration, conversion, Palestinian communities in Puerto Rico, Black Muslim movements, and the formation of Latino Muslim identity. Mexico’s relationship to space history becomes political, scientific, artistic, and biographical at once. Other recent episodes take up postrevolutionary Mexican print culture, Detroit’s racial geography, the making of the Latino South, and Mexican Americans’ encounters with law enforcement in the Southwest. The show is academic without being sealed off from ordinary curiosity. It gives listeners the pleasure of hearing a scholar think at length, with room for hesitation, detail, and revision. Hosts tend to guide rather than dominate. They summarize, clarify, and reopen questions, especially around race, place, migration, collective identity, and the politics of memory. The result is useful for readers who want to know not only what a book argues, but how that argument was made. It is also a strong fit for listeners who care about Latino studies as a living field rather than a fixed topic list. The show’s strength is its patience. It trusts that the history behind a category, community, or place can be more revealing than a quick explanation.
Made for: For readers, students, educators, researchers, and historically curious listeners who want serious conversations about Latino studies without losing the thread of lived experience. It especially suits people who enjoy academic books, careful context, and interviews that leave room for complexity.
What sets it apart: The show stands out by keeping the book’s intellectual architecture visible: argument, evidence, method, and stakes all remain part of the conversation. Rather than reducing scholarship to a summary, it lets authors trace how race, place, identity, media, religion, and politics are constructed over time.
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Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Book-centered interviews connect Latino studies scholarship to the institutions, histories, and everyday experiences that give its arguments weight.
New Books in Latino Studies turns scholarship into patient, question-led conversation. Each academic interview stays close to one book, giving its author room to establish historical context, explain research choices, and connect institutional policy with lived experience.
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A patient account of Puerto Rican Muslim life, built from history, place, and identity.
The episode follows Puerto Rican Muslims from migration and conversion into the slower work of community-making: businesses, mosques, Black Muslim histories, and the way race, racialization, culture, and ethnicity shape religious identity.
A thoughtful, wide-ranging look at Mexico's ties to space.
Anne W. Johnson's Mexico in Space takes a broad, steady look at how Mexico has been imagined through science, engineering, politics, migration, and art.
A humane look at how undocumented families navigate surveillance while trying to stay on the right side of the rules.
The episode treats undocumented Latino immigrant families as people making careful day-to-day choices under surveillance, not as a talking point.
A patient, policy-minded interview that connects health care exclusion to immigration, language, and lived experience.
Tiffany D. Joseph's conversation makes a straightforward policy case: for many immigrants in the U.S., documented and undocumented, access to health coverage and other public benefits has long been restricted by federal rules, not by the idea that the Affordable Care Act draws…
A careful argument about reproductive justice, control, and care in the borderlands.
It traces the history of reproductive care in the US-Mexico borderlands and keeps a steady focus on how power, race, medicine, and community shape that story.
Nilay Patel presses tech and media CEOs on how they actually run their companies.
Physician Shoshana Ungerleider pairs TED talks with interviews on aging, drug prices, and menopause.
Food52 hosts break down recipes and food-business origin stories, from sourdough to Salty Pimp cones.
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This episode features an interview with Gabriel Estrada about his book on queer indigenous cinemas, exploring sovereign genders in indigenous film.
Religion scholar Ken Chitwood discusses his book "Borícua Muslims: Everyday Cosmopolitanism Among Puerto Rican Converts to Islam," based on ten years of ethnographic fieldwork across New York, Puerto Rico, Florida, and digital spaces.
Anthropologist Anne W.
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An interview with author Brian Beemkin about his book on Mexican Americans, law enforcement, and civil rights in the Southwest from 1938.
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An academic interview about a new book on immigration, hosted by the New Books Network.
An interview with historian Irvin Ibarguen about his book on Mexico's regulation of emigration from 1940 to 1980.
An interview with Leo R.
An interview with historian Benjamin Francis Fallon about his book on the history of the Latino vote in the United States.
An academic interview podcast where scholars discuss their recently published research in Latino studies with an expert host.
An academic interview podcast where scholars discuss their recently published research on Latino studies, featuring a conversation about teaching Latinx racialization in America.
An interview with Nolan Cabrera about his book 'Banned: The Fight for Mexican-American Studies in the Streets and in the Courts' on the New Books in Education channel.
Stanford sociologist Asad L.
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New Books in Latino Studies features a conversation with Lina Maria Murillo about her 2025 book 'Fighting for Control: Power, Reproductive Care, and Race in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands,' published by the University of California Press.
An interview with a scholar about Latinx workers and their relationship with food, exploring cultural identity and labor.
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An academic interview series where scholars discuss their recently published research in Latino studies.
Host David James Gonzalez interviews Mike Madrid about his book 'The Latino Century' on Latino voters and their impact on American democracy.
Host David James Gonzalez interviews historian Oliver Rosales about his work on the Chicano Movement and Latino social justice.
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An interview with Matthew Gardner-Kelly about his book on school finance and structural inequality in education.
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This episode features an interview with Domingo Morel about his book on college access programs for students of color.
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This episode features an interview with Elizabeth Korver-Glenn and Sarah Mayorga about their book 'A Good Reputation: How Residents Fight for an American Barrio', exploring how residents in urban neighborhoods work to maintain community reputation.
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