A founder of US-Mexico border studies, José David Saldívar is a leading figure in efforts to
expand the scope of American studies. In Trans-Americanity, he advances that critical …

This rich interdisciplinary collection of essays advocates and models a hemispheric
approach to the study of the Americas. Taken together, the essays examine North and South …

Political theorists tend to write about the countries of Central America (Belize, Costa Rica, El
Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama) either as individual nation-states …

This address is dedicated to the memory of Gloria Anzaldúa, who passed away last May.
With her death, I lost a friend. The world lost a brilliant theorist of the arbitrariness of borders …

Readers familiar with current intellectual debates in Latin America, as well as among Latin
Americanists and Latino and Latina scholars in the United States, are also familiar with the …

Look Away! considers the US South in relation to Latin America and the Caribbean. Given
that some of the major characteristics that mark the South as exceptional within the United …

Status (tps), Deferred Enforced Departure (ded), and the American Baptist Churches (abc)
ruling, which sought to gain permission for temporary and extended stays for immigrants. By …

This essay argues that transnationalism is an indispensible term, bringing into sharp relief
all the ways that scholarly disciplines have relied upon, and reified, the nation. Although …

This article examines the specificity of Central Americans in the United States in relation to
issues of identity, history and politics. It also examines the contrasting relationship between …

Drawing on deconstruction, postcolonial theory, cultural studies, and subaltern studies, The
Other Side of the Popular is as much a reflection on the limitations and possibilities for …