I’m teaching a Latinx studies grad course in the Fall (if all goes as planned), and I’m so excited to include a bunch of books published in the last three years. So much exciting, innovative research coming out of the field.

Since there’s been interest, here are some of the newer books that come to mind. This is not an exhaustive list, so apologies for any omissions.

1. The Racial Politics of Division: Interethnic Struggles for Legitimacy in Multicultural Miami by Monika Gosin

2. The Young Lords: A Radical History
Book by Johanna Fernández
3. Redeeming La Raza: Transborder Modernity, Race, Respectability, and Rights by Gabriela González

4. Policing Life and Death: Race, Violence, and Resistance in Puerto Rico by Marisol LeBrón
5. Looking Like a Language, Sounding Like a Race: Raciolinguistic Ideologies and the Learning of Latinidad by Jonathan Rosa

6. An American Language: The History of Spanish in the United States
by Rosina Lozano
7. The Hispanic Republican: The Shaping of an American Political Identity, from Nixon to Trump by Geraldo Cadava

8. Fruteros: Street Vending, Illegality, and Ethnic Community in Los Angeles by Rocío Rosales
9. Aesthetics of Excess: The Art and Politics of Black and Latina Embodiment by Jillian Hernandez

10. Relational Formations of Race: Theory, Method, and Practice edited by Natalia Molina, Daniel Martinez Hosang, and Ramón A. Gutiérrez

11. Negotiating Latinidad: Intralatina/o Lives in Chicago by Frances Aparicio
12. Manufacturing Celebrity: Latino Paparazzi and Women Reporters in Hollywood by Vanessa Diaz

13. Barrio America: How Latino Immigrants Saved the American City by A. K. Sandoval-Strausz

14. (Forthcoming, July 2020) Latinx Art: Artists, Markets, and Politics by Arlene Davila