Join us for an online panel conversation between scholars shaping Latinx Studies. This online panel featuring authors Kelley Kreitz, Sujey Vega, Peter Mancina, and Gina M. Pérez will highlight key trends in Latinx Studies while also promoting their recently published books by NYU Press:
Printing Nueva York by Kelly Kreitz uncovers the network of Spanish-language writers and editors in 19th-century New York, whose media innovations fueled anticolonial struggles and democratic ideals.
Mormon Barrio by Sujey Vega illuminates the unique struggles and triumphs of Latino Latter-day Saints, the second largest demographic group in the church.
On the Side of ICE by Peter Mancina shows how police serve to assist ICE despite sanctuary laws insisting otherwise.
Sanctuary People by Gina M. Pérez explores ways faith communities offer protection and services for Latina/o communities.
Panelist Bios
Kelley Kreitz is Professor of English and an affiliate faculty member in Latinx Studies at Pace University in New York City. Her research brings together Latinx studies, media studies, and US and Latin American literary studies. She leads the digital mapping project C19LatinoNYC.org and serves on the advisory board of the University of Houston's Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage Project.
Sujey Vega is Associate Professor of Women and Gender Studies and American Studies, and Affiliate Faculty in Transborder Studies and Religious Studies at Arizona State University. She is the author of Latino Heartland: Of Borders and Belonging in the Midwest.
Peter Mancina is a cultural and political anthropologist who studies policing, immigration control, everyday policy implementation, and governmental power in sanctuary cities and states. Dr. Mancina's research has examined the manner in which sanctuary policies operationalize, moralize, and normalize local law enforcement protocols for assisting federal immigration enforcement authorities. He is author of the new book On the Side of ICE: Policing Immigrants in a Sanctuary State.
Gina M. Pérez is Professor in the Department of Comparative American Studies in Oberlin College. She is the author of Citizen, Student, Soldier: Latina/o Youth, JROTC and the American Dream and co-editor with Alex Chávez of Ethnographic Refusals, Unruly Latinidades.