...Alberto Varon Abstract This essay considers the Latinx archive and argues for the continued importance of the nation in understanding Latinx culture. For decades, scholars have recovered a variety of divergent forms of writing that challenge the possibility of a Latinx literary canon...

... for the affirmation of Latinx lives and the insistence on Latinx peoplehood, regardless of point of origin. It demands the rejection of the abject racism emanating from the US presidency, its pundits, media outlets, and congressional allies. It also demands a confrontation with electoral and population bases...

...Rodrigo Lazo Abstract The article suggests that the fashionable use of the term Latinx overlooks the historical context of Spanish-language publications in which the gender distinction Latina/o is important. Focusing on the anonymously published Cartas de un Americano (London, 1826), a collection...

...Rachel Conrad Bracken Abstract This article situates early twentieth-century Latinx fiction within the intertwined histories of public health and border surveillance along the Rio Grande to reveal a “borderland biopolitics” unique to the US-Mexico border region. Drawing on three early twentieth...

... presidential election. Copyright © 2018 Regents of the University of Colorado 2018 Junot Díaz anticipatory history Rafael Trujillo Black Lives Matter Latino, Latina, Latinx: the field has ineluctably shaped my thinking since the earliest stages of my career. As a graduate student, I learned...

...-century United States Southwest borderlands land grants Latinx racial identity On June 17, 1895, a woman from California named Sofia Peralta-Reavis took the stand at the US Court of Land Claims in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Despite her humble beginnings as an orphaned child, Peralta-Reavis leaped...

... admissibility. The essay explores how the Northern Triangle’s minor—the outré LatinX child—is made into the word on bureaucratic paper. It probes a genealogy of temporary American beginnings and delves into the expulsed Central American child as a newcomer, a migrant, and the beginning of something else...

...Marissa López Abstract While an inclusive Latinx studies has real intellectual justification, the move to craft Latinx rather than specifically Chicanx scholarly questions relies on presentism and adumbrates conflicts over class and citizenship. Drawing on her personal experience justifying the use...

...Joshua Javier Guzmán Abstract This brief meditation on Latino the word underscores a politics of loss at play in the emergence of the new term Latinx . The term Latinx reveals how a performance of negation, identified in the very telling word no in Lati no /Chica no , takes seriously the ex-factor...

... citizenship that are discernible in literary works and in the archival record. It looks to documentary practices in Latin America and the Caribbean to decenter the United States from studies of border crossing and Latinx subjectivities, suggesting intersecting hemispheric practices that delineate the relative...

... but as an inspiration—indeed, an invitation—to consider the possibilities afforded by the changing world of print. This media context, in which anything seemed possible, constitutes an important and understudied factor in Latinx lives of the nineteenth century—especially for understanding the contributions of cultural...

... around which Latinidad is often leveraged, as Keme argues. Specifically, Keme contends that Latinidad must be removed from scholarly discussions to allow the indigene, and presumably Indigenous thought, to emerge in Latinx contexts. Our contributors’ reliance on language as a methodology seeks to disrupt...

... of hospitalization and death for Black, Latinx, and Asian American persons, among both adults and children. 2 Furthermore, these studies often underscore how “significant gaps in wealth, employment, housing, and access to health care between White persons and people from some racial and ethnic groups” have...

... programs. 36 By contrast, Black and Latinx patients suffering from drug addiction are more frequently arrested and incarcerated rather than treated, in part because of drug policy itself. 37 This distinction between prescription opioid medication and illicit drugs bifurcates white addiction...

... perpetrators, was on the rise. In these moments, the demand to stop Asian hate can function as a dog whistle calling for increased policing of Black communities. A week into the Year of the Ox, Jacob Azevedo, a Latinx resident of Oakland, organized a GoFundMe campaign to raise money for personal alarms...

..., Latinx, and other writers—from Nella Larsen to Carlos Bulosan—that were denied a place in the Western or US canon, Penguin Classics has redefined the notion of indispensable literary writing. 11 In publisher Elda Rotor’s words: “We’re seeing what people are expecting from us, and we want to bring...

..., Latinx, and Asian American persons.” Bezio argues that this “attention to systemic racism as a framework for data collection regarding communicable disease” represents an intersection of the present pandemic and her usual field of study: eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Black authors. For instance...