LatinX has neither country nor fixed geography. LatinX sorts out and addresses issues about the unknowability of social realities that exceed our present knowledge. -- Forerunners: Ideas First are short books of thought-in-process scholarship, where intense analysis, questioning, and speculation take the lead.

Fully cross-referenced and complete with suggestions for further reading, Latinx Studies: The Key Concepts is an essential guide for anyone studying race, ethnicity, gender, class, education, culture, and globalism.

Brings together interdisciplinary cultural theory and U.S. Latinx urban literature into conversation, focusing on the realities and urban experiences of Latinx living in major cities in the United States from the 1960s to the present.

Shows how Latinx authors and cultural producers express environmental concerns in their work. Chapters focus on film, visual art, and literature—and engage in fields such as disability studies, animal studies, and queer studies.

Celebrates the embodied narratives of Latinidad. Poets speak in the tradition of hip-hop from an array of nationalities, genders, sexualities, races, and writing styles. Victoria Chávez Peralta, a creative writing major at Columbia College Chicago, has two poems published in “The BreakBeat Poets: Vol. 4 - LatiNext.”

Major writers from Mexico weigh in on U.S. immigration policy, from harrowing migrant journeys to immigrant detention to the life beyond the wall.

An exploration of how the Windy City became a postwar Latinx metropolis in the face of white resistance.

Offers an understanding of how Latino identity came to be, and where it might be going

Through individual profiles of more than eighty photographers from the early history of the photographic medium to the present, the author introduces readers to Latinx portraitists, photojournalists, and documentarians and their legacies.

Offers a penetrating, evocative, and overall streetwise portrait of two iconic and enduring Hispanic neighborhoods by Columbia College Chicago photography instructor, Paul D'Amato.

Presents an issue that celebrates the dynamic visions of Latinx photography throughout the United States.