Latinx Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/tag/latinx/ a magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship Sat, 17 Jan 2026 02:17:03 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.publicbooks.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/cropped-favicon-2-300x300.png Latinx Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/tag/latinx/ 32 32 Ingrid Rojas Contreras on “The Man Who Could Move Clouds” https://www.publicbooks.org/ingrid-rojas-contreras/ Wed, 26 Jul 2023 15:00:51 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=53031 “I realized that if I was going to write a story about healers, I also had to write a story about healing.”

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]]> Finding the Latinx City with Mike Amezcua and Pedro A. Regalado https://www.publicbooks.org/finding-the-latinx-city-with-mike-amezcua-and-pedro-a-regalado/ Tue, 06 Jun 2023 15:00:57 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=52547 “Sometimes Latino urban history is thought of as the history of a cultural community and that’s a little dismissive. I examine people contesting and reshaping the use of space.”

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]]> Alejandro Varela on “The Town of Babylon” and “The People Who Report More Stress” https://www.publicbooks.org/writing-latinos-alejandro-varela/ Wed, 24 May 2023 15:00:16 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=52367 Writing Latinos, from Public Books, features interviews with Latino (a/x/e) authors discussing their books and how their writing contributes to the ever-changing conversation about the meanings of latinidad. In this episode, you’ll hear our interview with Alejandro Varela about his books The Town of Babylon and The People Who Report More Stress, both published by […]

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]]> Sarah M. Quesada on “The African Heritage of Caribbean and Latinx Literature” https://www.publicbooks.org/writing-latinos-sarah-m-quesada/ Wed, 10 May 2023 15:00:07 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=52265 “This is a book that explores how African history—political history, cultural history, literary history—weighs and therefore haunts some of the stories that we tell ourselves about latinidad.”

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]]> Edgar Gomez on “High-Risk Homosexual” https://www.publicbooks.org/edgar-gomez-on-high-risk-homosexual/ Wed, 26 Apr 2023 15:00:30 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=52157 In this latest episode of the Writing Latinos podcast, we talk about machismo, cockfighting, reconciling with parents, the Pulse nightclub shooting, bilingualism in contemporary literature, and the “messiness” of latinidad.

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]]> Lorgia García Peña on “Translating Blackness” https://www.publicbooks.org/lorgia-garcia-pena-translating-blackness/ Wed, 12 Apr 2023 18:34:22 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=51765 In this latest episode of the Writing Latinos podcast, we discuss how some Afro-Latinas argue that the US census needs to accept that Latinos are not a race.

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]]> Graciela Mochkofsky on “The Prophet of the Andes” https://www.publicbooks.org/graciela-mochkofsky-on-the-prophet-of-the-andes/ Wed, 29 Mar 2023 14:37:32 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=52032 In this latest episode of the Writing Latinos podcast, we discuss how a new book shatters preconceptions about religion in the Americas.

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]]> Natalia Molina on “A Place at the Nayarit” https://www.publicbooks.org/natalia-molina-on-a-place-at-the-nayarit/ Wed, 15 Mar 2023 17:30:01 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=51660 Writing Latinos is a new podcast featuring interviews with Latino authors discussing their books and how their writing contributes to the ever-changing conversation about the meanings of latinidad.

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]]> Goodbye “West Side Story” https://www.publicbooks.org/goodbye-west-side-story/ Wed, 27 Apr 2022 15:00:02 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=48245 Many Latinxs—the nation’s largest ethnic group & most avid movie consumers—think the nation’s most beloved musical on racial tolerance is racist.

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]]> The US Arrested Her—Then She Changed Chicago https://www.publicbooks.org/mexican-chicago-housing-anita-villarreal/ Mon, 28 Feb 2022 16:00:04 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=47556 In the 1960s, Chicago’s white neighborhoods didn’t want Mexican Americans moving in. But one determined real estate broker changed everything.

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