Public Books

Héctor Tobar on “Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of ‘Latino’”

“One of the things that helps define Latino identity is this sense of having a history but also not knowing the history.”

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Blog of the APA

Back to the Warm Home, Good Relationships, and Philosophy

Three years in, we stay true to the pulse underlying our philosophical work. Coming from memorable personal relationships, we end with free correspondence.

Public Books

Natalia Molina on “A Place at the Nayarit”

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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Salon.com

"Absolutely shameful": Biden administration reportedly mulling return to migrant family detentions

"A family detention policy is a policy of adding trauma to trauma"

Boing Boing

AOC makes Twitter executive admit company changed policy to accommodate Trump's racist Tweets

Yesterday the GOP called in former Twitter executives to try to make them admit that Twitter had been a hotbed of censorial socialists under the watch of libertarian Jack Dorsey. But AOC reminded everyone in the House yesterday that Twitter made a special effort to amplify then-President Trump's threats, incitements to violence, and racism. — Read the rest