Analyzing how artists reimagine migrant disappearance and visibility at the US-Mexico border. In the mid-1990s, the US government implemented Prevention through Deterrence, a major buildup of troops, walls, and surveillance around El Paso and San Diego. Cut off from these crucial urban crossings, migrants flowed into the dangerous surrounding ......
Analyzing how artists reimagine migrant disappearance and visibility at the US-Mexico border. In the mid-1990s, the US government implemented Prevention through Deterrence, a major buildup of troops, walls, and surveillance around El Paso and San Diego. Cut off from these crucial urban crossings, migrants flowed into the dangerous surrounding ......
How Spanish-language television networks continue to thrive in a rapidly changing media landscape. The US television industry has suffered blow after blow amid media convergence and the rise of streaming. Those legacy broadcasters that survive are much diminished and highly dependent on live programming-the last redoubt of old media. There is an ......
How Spanish-language television networks continue to thrive in a rapidly changing media landscape. The US television industry has suffered blow after blow amid media convergence and the rise of streaming. Those legacy broadcasters that survive are much diminished and highly dependent on live programming-the last redoubt of old media. There is an ......
Khalik Allah is a New York-based photographer and filmmaker whose work has been described as "street opera," simultaneously penetrative, hauntingly beautiful, and visceral. His photography has been acclaimed by the New York Times, TIME Light Box, the New Yorker, the Guardian, the Village Voice, the BBC, and the Boston Globe. Since 2012, Allah has ......
An expansive volume on Tejana identity and Tejanidad told through personal narratives, poetry, and essays. Being Tejanx is different than just being from Texas. Being Tejanx means you are a border subject. Being Tejanx means living in and from a certain history of oppression, possibility, activism, and cultural-linguistic hybridity arising ......
An expansive volume on Tejana identity and Tejanidad told through personal narratives, poetry, and essays. Being Tejanx is different than just being from Texas. Being Tejanx means you are a border subject. Being Tejanx means living in and from a certain history of oppression, possibility, activism, and cultural-linguistic hybridity arising ......
A deep dive into the early days of punk in Austin, Texas, this oral history immerses readers in a diverse and influential music scene. Texas has always teemed with music and counterculture. When punk came to the state in 1978, it flourished in San Antonio, Dallas, Houston, and, especially, Austin. Punk and post-punk musicians, including ......
Travesti and Joteria Struggles Across the Americas
How trans and non-binary networks engage in decoloniality across hemispheres. A deeply informed, theoretically rich work of inquiry and critique, Sideways Selves learns from two communities of migrants as they contest their marginalization under the colonial regime of gender-colonial because, as PJ DiPietro affirms, Indigenous and ......
