Books by LSRI Affiliated Faculty
The Rutgers Latino Studies Research Initiative highlights recent and foundational books by affiliated faculty whose work shapes Latino Studies, public history, and community research in New Jersey and beyond. This collection brings together scholarship across disciplines and reflects the depth and range of research connected to LSRI.
Books by LSRI Faculty
Abstract Barrios: The Crises of Latinx Visibility in Cities Johana Londoño
This book examines how Latinized urban landscapes are made palatable for white Americans, exploring how urban planners, architects, and designers took abstracted elements from barrio design to safely “Latinize” cities and manage a long-standing urban crisis of Latinx belonging.
Aztlán Arizona: Mexican American Educational Empowerment, 1968–1978 Darius V. Echeverría
A history of the Chicano Movement in Arizona in the 1960s and 1970s, examining how community and student activism in Phoenix and Tucson shaped educational reform and civil rights struggles.
Day of the Dead in the USA, Second Edition Regina M. Marchi
An exploration of how the ancient Mexican tradition of Día de los Muertos has been transformed into a major cultural phenomenon across the United States, examining ritual, identity, media, and community.
Puerto Rican Citizen: History and Political Identity in Twentieth-Century New York City Lorrin Thomas
A history of Puerto Rican political identity and citizenship in twentieth-century New York City, tracing how migrants navigated the promises and failures of American citizenship from the 1920s through the postwar era.
Rethinking the Struggle for Puerto Rican Rights Lorrin Thomas & Aldo Lauria Santiago
This book reexamines the political and social struggles shaping Puerto Rican rights movements, offering new perspectives on activism, citizenship, and belonging in twentieth-century America.
Side by Side: US Empire, Puerto Rico, and the Roots of American Youth Literature and Culture Marilisa Jiménez García
With a foreword by Sonia Nieto, this book examines how children’s and young adult literature became a tool for negotiating the colonial relationship between the United States and Puerto Rico, drawing on sources including young adult fiction, textbooks, television, comics, music, curricula, and youth movements. It stands as the only comprehensive study of Puerto Rican and diasporic contributions to American youth literature and culture.
Tacit Subjects: Belonging and Same-Sex Desire among Dominican Immigrant Men Carlos Ulises Decena
An ethnographic study of how gay Dominican immigrant men of color in New York City handle race, sexuality, and power in daily life, and how they challenge and rework Dominican identity.