Imagining Latinidades

At the conclusion of the Imagining Latinidades “Cultural Citizenships and Popular Belonging” Symposium held virtually as Episode 19 of this podcast, co-host and co-director of the Sawyer Seminar, Darrel Wanzer-Serrano sits down with the three invited guests to discuss their paths in the field. Questions included:

• What’s your Latina/o/x Studies origin story?
• What does Latina/o/x Studies offer your scholarship that disciplinary perspectives/methods might not?
• What’s the value of Latina/o/x Studies to students and higher ed institutions?
• What’s the value of Latina/o/x Studies to communities outside of academia?
• What’s your message to a Latina/o/x listener at a PWI?

Check out the chapter markers if you want to skip to a specific question or answer. 

★ Thanks to our sponsors ★

• The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s generous support through its Sawyer Seminar program allowed “Imagining Latinidades: Articulations of National Belonging” to launch at the University of Iowa. This podcast was born from the Sawyer Seminar and we hope it will continue on afterward.
• The Obermann Center for Advanced Studies, at Iowa, was the birthplace of our Seminar theme, which gave rise to this podcast.

Show notes:

• The full description and list of speakers for the Latina/o/x Cultural Citizenships and Popular Belonging Symposium that can be found at: Latina/o/x Cultural Citizenships & Popular Belonging – Imagining Latinidades
• Bios for all of the presenters can be found on our website at:  Presenters – Imagining Latinidades
• Episode 19 of the podcast is here: Latina/o/x Cultural Citizenships and Popular Belonging | Imagining Latinidades

You can reply to this podcast here:

• Twitter, Instagram, Facebook: @ImaginingLat
• Hosts on Twitter: Darrel is @DoctorDWS, Ariana is @aryruiz710, Rene is @rene5311
• Email: podcast@imagininglatinidades.com 

Credits

• Our cover art, a photo of an installation titled “El Hielo / I.C.E,” is provided courtesy of the artist, Fidencio Fifield-Perez.
• Music by Juan Ruiz.
• Our hosting is provided by Transistor.fm, which we really love.
• Our podcasting app of choice is Overcast.fm, which also makes a handy app that streamlines the process of making the chapter markers in this podcast.

Today, we have a very special program  planned for you. A year ago, we were supposed to host my guests for a one-day Symposium in Iowa City on the topic of LATINA/O/X CULTURAL CITIZENSHIPS & POPULAR BELONGING. After having addressed issues surrounding formal citizenship and national belonging in the Fall 2019 semester, this one-day symposium was supposed to bring subject area experts (our guests, today) to discuss modalities of popular belonging (television, sports, music, literature, and more) in Latina/o/x contexts in the U.S. Alas, that symposium was the first thing we had to cancel due to the emerging coronavirus pandemic. So after Ariana and I had a chance to start settling into our new locations after our moves, we realized that one of the best ways we could make up the symposium was with a couple of episodes of this podcast. In this episode, we’ll be sticking to the subject matter of the symposium.  After I introduce them, each of my guests will have a chance to offer short opening statements and then we’ll proceed into some questions about cultural citizenship and popular belonging. In the NEXT episode, we’ll do our traditional “roundtable” format and dive into what we’ve called their “origin stories” as well as their thoughts on the importance of Latinx Studies education. 

★ Thanks to our sponsors ★

• The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s generous support through its Sawyer Seminar program allowed “Imagining Latinidades: Articulations of National Belonging” to launch at the University of Iowa. This podcast was born from the Sawyer Seminar and we hope it will continue on afterward.
• The Obermann Center for Advanced Studies, at Iowa, was the birthplace of our Seminar theme, which gave rise to this podcast.

Show notes:

Our guests today included…

• Frederick Luis Aldama is an academic and award-winning author of over 40 books, including the International Latino Book Award and Eisner Award for Latinx Superheroes in Mainstream Comics. He is editor of the trade press, Latinographix, creator of the first documentary on the history of Latinx superheroes, and co-founder & director of SÕL-CON: Brown, Black, & Indigenous Comix Expo & Symposium. This fall, Frederick will publish a Spanish translation of his kid’s book The Adventures of Chupacabra Charlie (2020) as well as join UT Austin as the Jacob & Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities and launch his Latinx Pop Lab.
• Adrian Burgos, Jr., is Professor of History at the University of Illinois, specializing in US Latino history, sport history, and urban history. He is the author of Cuban Star: How One Negro League Owner Changed the Face of Baseball (2011) and Playing America’s Game: Baseball, Latinos, and the Color Line (2007), which won the Latina/o Book Award from the Latin American Studies Association and was a Seymour Medal finalist from the Society of American Baseball Research. He has consulted on the National Baseball Hall of Fame’s Viva Baseball exhibit, Smithsonian’s Latinos and Baseball exhibit, and on numerous documentaries. He was founding editor-in-chief of La Vida Baseball, a multiplatform digital brand in partnership with the Baseball Hall of Fame that produces daily content on Latinos and baseball through a cultural lifestyle perspective.
• Ed Morales is an author and journalist who has written for The Nation, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Rolling Stone, and the Guardian. He was staff writer at The Village Voice and columnist at Newsday. He is the author of Latinx: The New Force in Politics and Culture (Verso Books 2018), and Living in Spanglish (St. Martins 2002). And most recently, he saw publication of his book Fantasy Island: Colonialism, Exploitation, and the betrayal of Puerto Rico — I book I’m very excited to read as it’s close to some of my current research interests.  Morales wrote and directed *Whose Barrio? (*2009) an award-winning documentary about the gentrification of East Harlem. Morales is a lecturer at Columbia University’s Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race and the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism.

You can reply to this podcast here:

• Twitter, Instagram, Facebook: @ImaginingLat
• Hosts on Twitter: Darrel is @DoctorDWS, Ariana is @aryruiz710, Rene is @rene5311
• Email: podcast@imagininglatinidades.com 

Credits

• Our cover art, a photo of an installation titled “El Hielo / I.C.E,” is provided courtesy of the artist, Fidencio Fifield-Perez.
• Music by Juan Ruiz.
• Our hosting is provided by Transistor.fm, which we really love.
• Our podcasting app of choice is Overcast.fm, which also makes a handy app that streamlines the process of making the chapter markers in this podcast.

Co-hosts Darrel Wanzer-Serrano and Ariana Ruiz meet up on Zoom to talk about where we've been and what the plan is going forward since coronavirus has kind of limited our ability to have in-person conferences and symposia. We lay out the plan for the remaining events and associated podcasts. 

★ Thanks to our sponsors ★

• The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s generous support through its Sawyer Seminar program allowed “Imagining Latinidades: Articulations of National Belonging” to launch at the University of Iowa. This podcast was born from the Sawyer Seminar and we hope it will continue on afterward.
• The Obermann Center for Advanced Studies, at Iowa, was the birthplace of our Seminar theme, which gave rise to this podcast.

Links and things:

• The cancelled symposium, which will become interviews on the podcast is: Latina/o/x Cultural Citizenships & Popular Belonging – Imagining Latinidades
• The closing conference should happen in September 2020 — stay tuned for more information.

You can reply to this podcast here:

• Twitter, Instagram, Facebook: @ImaginingLat
• Hosts on Twitter: Darrel is @DoctorDWS, Ariana is @aryruiz710, Rene is @rene5311
• Email: podcast@imagininglatinidades.com 

Credits

• Our cover art, a photo of an installation titled “El Hielo / I.C.E,” is provided courtesy of the artist, Fidencio Fifield-Perez.
• Music by Juan Ruiz.
• Our hosting is provided by Transistor.fm, which we really love.
• Our podcasting app of choice is Overcast.fm, which also makes a handy app that streamlines the process of making the chapter markers in this podcast.

Darrel Wanzer-Serrano sits down with Dr. Lina-Maria Murillo to talk about her research, her connections to Latina/o/x Studies, and more. Check the chapter markers (will be uploaded later) to see all of the topics that are discussed. 

★ Thanks to our sponsors ★

• The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s generous support through its Sawyer Seminar program allowed “Imagining Latinidades: Articulations of National Belonging” to launch at the University of Iowa. This podcast was born from the Sawyer Seminar and we hope it will continue on afterward.
• The Obermann Center for Advanced Studies, at Iowa, was the birthplace of our Seminar theme, which gave rise to this podcast.

Links and things:

• Dr. Murillo’s faculty profile at Iowa: Lina-Maria Murillo | Gender, Women’s and Sexuality Studies
• For more information about Latina/o Studies at Iowa, check out Latina/o Studies | College of Liberal Arts & Sciences | The University of Iowa
• For more info about where Dr. Murillo got her degree, see Ph.D. in  Borderlands History < UTEP
• The blog that was discussed: Borderlands History
• The Braceros oral history stuff that Dr. Murillo discussed: Bracero Oral History Project | Institute of Oral History | University of Texas at El Paso

You can reply to this podcast here:

• Twitter, Instagram, Facebook: @ImaginingLat
• Hosts on Twitter: Darrel is @DoctorDWS, Ariana is @aryruiz710, Rene is @rene5311
• Email: podcast@imagininglatinidades.com 

Credits

• Our cover art, a photo of an installation titled “El Hielo / I.C.E,” is provided courtesy of the artist, Fidencio Fifield-Perez.
• Music by Juan Ruiz.
• Our hosting is provided by Transistor.fm, which we really love.
• Our podcasting app of choice is Overcast.fm, which also makes a handy app that streamlines the process of making the chapter markers in this podcast.

Co-hosts Darrel Wanzer-Serrano and Rene Rocha sit down with two Iowa Latina/o Studies undergraduate students to talk about how they found the field and why they think it’s important. Bianca Robles-Muñoz is junior majoring in Speech and Hearing Sciences and minoring in American Sign Language and Latina/o Studies. Naomi Marroquin is a senior majoring in Global Heath Studies, minoring in Latina/o Studies, and is President of the Association of Latinos Moving Ahead student organization. Check the chapter markers to see all of the topics that are discussed. 

★ Thanks to our sponsors ★

• The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s generous support through its Sawyer Seminar program allowed “Imagining Latinidades: Articulations of National Belonging” to launch at the University of Iowa. This podcast was born from the Sawyer Seminar and we hope it will continue on afterward.
• The Obermann Center for Advanced Studies, at Iowa, was the birthplace of our Seminar theme, which gave rise to this podcast.

Links and things:

• For more information about the program at Iowa, check out Latina/o Studies | College of Liberal Arts & Sciences | The University of Iowa
• Info about the new Latinx LLC called Unidos can be found here: Unidos | Housing
• The book Darrel can’t think of the title of when talking about the Unidos LLC is Citizens but Not Americans: Race and Belonging among Latino Millennials (Latina/o Sociology): Nilda Flores-González: 9781479840779: Amazon.com: Books

You can reply to this podcast here:

• Twitter, Instagram, Facebook: @ImaginingLat
• Hosts on Twitter: Darrel is @DoctorDWS, Ariana is @aryruiz710, Rene is @rene5311
• Email: podcast@imagininglatinidades.com 

Credits

• Our cover art, a photo of an installation titled “El Hielo / I.C.E,” is provided courtesy of the artist, Fidencio Fifield-Perez.
• Music by Juan Ruiz.
• Our hosting is provided by Transistor.fm, which we really love.
• Our podcasting app of choice is Overcast.fm, which also makes a handy app that streamlines the process of making the chapter markers in this podcast.

At the conclusion of the Imagining Latinidades “Imagining the Latina/o/x Midwest” Symposium in Iowa City, Iowa, co-host and co-director of the Sawyer Seminar, Darrel Wanzer-Serrano sits down with the three invited lecturers to discuss their paths in the field. Questions included:

• What’s your Latina/o/x Studies origin story?
• What does Latina/o/x Studies offer your scholarship that disciplinary perspectives/methods might not?
• What’s the value of Latina/o/x Studies to students and higher ed institutions?
• What’s the value of Latina/o/x Studies to communities outside of academia?
• What’s your message to a Latina/o/x listener at a PWI?

Check out the chapter markers if you want to skip to a specific question or answer. 

★ Thanks to our sponsors ★

• The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s generous support through its Sawyer Seminar program allowed “Imagining Latinidades: Articulations of National Belonging” to launch at the University of Iowa. This podcast was born from the Sawyer Seminar and we hope it will continue on afterward.
• The Obermann Center for Advanced Studies, at Iowa, was the birthplace of our Seminar theme, which gave rise to this podcast.

Show notes:

• The full description and list of speakers (and, eventually, links to video recordings of their talks) for the Imagining the Latina/o/x Midwest Symposium that took place January 31, 2020, can be found at: Imagining the Latina/o/x Midwest – Imagining Latinidades
• Bios for all of the presenters can be found on our website at:  Presenters – Imagining Latinidades
• For the project mentioned by Dr. Fernández, see: The Latino New Jersey History Project

You can reply to this podcast here:

• Twitter, Instagram, Facebook: @ImaginingLat
• Hosts on Twitter: Darrel is @DoctorDWS, Ariana is @aryruiz710, Rene is @rene5311
• Email: podcast@imagininglatinidades.com 

Credits

• Our cover art, a photo of an installation titled “El Hielo / I.C.E,” is provided courtesy of the artist, Fidencio Fifield-Perez.
• Music by Juan Ruiz.
• Our hosting is provided by Transistor.fm, which we really love.
• Our podcasting app of choice is Overcast.fm, which also makes a handy app that streamlines the process of making the chapter markers in this podcast.

Darrel, Ariana, and Rene sit down to catch up at the start of the semester and discuss themes related to the upcoming Latina/o/x Midwest Symposium. After Rene leaves, Darrel and Ariana talk about archival research and the willingness to discuss your “finds” before you publish about them.  

★ Thanks to our sponsors ★

• The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s generous support through its Sawyer Seminar program allowed “Imagining Latinidades: Articulations of National Belonging” to launch at the University of Iowa. This podcast was born from the Sawyer Seminar and we hope it will continue on afterward.
• The Obermann Center for Advanced Studies, at Iowa, was the birthplace of our Seminar theme, which gave rise to this podcast.

Show notes:

• Subscribe to this podcast, please! 
•  * Livestream of the upcoming symposium will be here: University of Iowa Latina/o Studies Program - Home | Facebook
• Read all about the upcoming symposium, which is Friday 1/31/20 at the Iowa City Public Library, here: Imagining the Latina/o/x Midwest – Imagining Latinidades.
• Lilia Fernandez – Imagining Latinidades Transient Pasts: Theorizing the History of Latinos/as in the Midwest – Imagining Latinidades
• Sujey Vega – Imagining Latinidades  Of Borders and Belonging: Addressing the meaning of home and belonging in Latinx Midwestern Imagined Comunidades – Imagining Latinidades
• Theresa Delgadillo – Imagining Latinidades Environmental Sustainability and Alternative Place-Times in Midwest Latinx Literature – Imagining Latinidades
• The 2012 Symposium info can be found here: The Latino Midwest | Obermann Center for Advanced Studies
• UI Press | Edited by Omar Valerio-Jiménez, Santiago Vaquera-Vásquez, and Claire F. Fox Afterword by Frances R. Aparicio | The Latina/o Midwest Reader
• La Bloga: CSUCI Houses the Works and Archives of Michele Serros

You can reply to this podcast here:

• Twitter, Instagram, Facebook: @ImaginingLat
• Hosts on Twitter: Darrel is @DoctorDWS, Ariana is @aryruiz710, Rene is @rene5311
• Email: podcast@imagininglatinidades.com 

Credits

• Our cover art, a photo of an installation titled “El Hielo / I.C.E,” is provided courtesy of the artist, Fidencio Fifield-Perez.
• Music by Juan Ruiz.
• Our hosting is provided by Transistor.fm, which we really love.
• Our podcasting app of choice is Overcast.fm, which also makes a handy app that streamlines the process of making the chapter markers in this podcast.

Darrel Wanzer-Serrano sits down with the legendary Iris Morales to talk about the emergence of Puerto Rican studies, student organization and activism from the 1960s to today, and more. Recorded in December 2019 while Morales was at Iowa for a screening of her film and discussions with students and faculty. 

★ Thanks to our sponsors ★

• The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s generous support through its Sawyer Seminar program allowed “Imagining Latinidades: Articulations of National Belonging” to launch at the University of Iowa. This podcast was born from the Sawyer Seminar and we hope it will continue on afterward.
• The Obermann Center for Advanced Studies, at Iowa, was the birthplace of our Seminar theme, which gave rise to this podcast.

Show notes:

• Subscribe to this podcast, please! 
• IRIS MORALES | the official website
• Red Sugarcane Press Inc. - Red Sugarcane Press
• Watch ¡Palante, Siempre Palante! The Young Lords Online | Vimeo On Demand on Vimeo

You can reply to this podcast here:

• Twitter, Instagram, Facebook: @ImaginingLat
• Hosts on Twitter: Darrel is @DoctorDWS, Ariana is @aryruiz710, Rene is @rene5311
• Email: podcast@imagininglatinidades.com 

Credits

• Our cover art, a photo of an installation titled “El Hielo / I.C.E,” is provided courtesy of the artist, Fidencio Fifield-Perez.
• Music by Juan Ruiz.
• Our hosting is provided by Transistor.fm, which we really love.
• Our podcasting app of choice is Overcast.fm, which also makes a handy app that streamlines the process of making the chapter markers in this podcast.

Darrel Wanzer-Serrano and Ariana Ruiz meet up for a bit of a retrospective on 2019. They have a little podcast discussion about the podcast and the first semester of programming for Imagining Latinidades. They then ponder some of their favorite readings of the year so far and talk about how to productively (and unproductively) deal with end of term stress for students. The podcast will be on hiatus until we return with an interview with Iris Morales on January 14, 2020. 

★ Thanks to our sponsors ★

• The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s generous support through its Sawyer Seminar program allowed “Imagining Latinidades: Articulations of National Belonging” to launch at the University of Iowa. This podcast was born from the Sawyer Seminar and we hope it will continue on afterward.
• The Obermann Center for Advanced Studies, at Iowa, was the birthplace of our Seminar theme, which gave rise to this podcast.

Show notes:

• Subscribe to this podcast, please! 
• Amazon.com: Terrorizing Latina/o Immigrants: Race, Gender, and Immigration Policy Post-9/11 (9781439912867): Anna Sampaio: Books
• In Search of Belonging: Latinas, Media, and Citizenship (Latinos in Chicago and Midwest): Jillian M Baez: 9780252083419: Amazon.com: Books
• Citizens but Not Americans
• Karma R. Chávez, “Remapping Latinidad: A Performance Cartography of Latina/o Identity in Rural Nebraska,” Text & Performance Quarterly
• Chapter Four: Migrations Through Academia: Reflections of a Tenured Latina Professor on JSTOR

You can reply to this podcast here:

• Twitter, Instagram, Facebook: @ImaginingLat
• Hosts on Twitter: Darrel is @DoctorDWS, Ariana is @aryruiz710, Rene is @rene5311
• Email: podcast@imagininglatinidades.com 

Credits

• Our cover art, a photo of an installation titled “El Hielo / I.C.E,” is provided courtesy of the artist, Fidencio Fifield-Perez.
• Music by Juan Ruiz.
• Our hosting is provided by Transistor.fm, which we really love.
• Our podcasting app of choice is Overcast.fm, which also makes a handy app that streamlines the process of making the chapter markers in this podcast.

Darrel Wanzer-Serrano, Ariana Ruiz, and Rene Rocha get together again! In this live recorded event at the 2019 Latinx Excellence in the Midwest Conference at the University of Iowa, the three co-hosts discuss the history of Latina/o Studies at Iowa, the demographics of Latina/o/x folks in the state, and their own practices of teaching Latina/o/x Studies in the Midwestern context. Check the chapter markers for a breakdown of the specific topics. 

★ Thanks to our sponsors ★

• The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s generous support through its Sawyer Seminar program allowed “Imagining Latinidades: Articulations of National Belonging” to launch at the University of Iowa. This podcast was born from the Sawyer Seminar and we hope it will continue on afterward.
• The Obermann Center for Advanced Studies, at Iowa, was the birthplace of our Seminar theme, which gave rise to this podcast.

Show notes:

• Latinx Excellence in the Midwest Conference - 2019 | College of Education | University of Iowa
• Directors – Imagining Latinidades
• Latina/o Studies | College of Liberal Arts & Sciences | The University of Iowa

You can reply to this podcast here:

• Twitter, Instagram, Facebook: @ImaginingLat
• Hosts on Twitter: Darrel is @DoctorDWS, Ariana is @aryruiz710, Rene is @rene5311
• Email: podcast@imagininglatinidades.com 

Credits

• Our cover art, a photo of an installation titled “El Hielo / I.C.E,” is provided courtesy of the artist, Fidencio Fifield-Perez.
• Music by Juan Ruiz.
• Our hosting is provided by Transistor.fm, which we really love.
• Our podcasting app of choice is Overcast.fm, which also makes a handy app that streamlines the process of making the chapter markers in this podcast.

At the conclusion of the Imagining Latinidades Latina/o/x Citizenship and National Belonging Symposium in Iowa City, Iowa, co-host and co-director of the Sawyer Seminar, Ariana Ruiz sits down with the three invited lecturers to discuss their paths in the field. Questions included:

• What’s your Latina/o/x Studies origin story?
• What does Latina/o/x Studies offer your scholarship that disciplinary perspectives/methods might not?
• What’s the value of Latina/o/x Studies to students and higher ed institutions?
• What’s the value of Latina/o/x Studies to communities outside of academia?
• What’s your message to a Latina/o/x listener at a PWI?

Check out the chapter markers if you want to skip to a specific question or answer.

★ Thanks to our sponsors ★

• The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s generous support through its Sawyer Seminar program allowed “Imagining Latinidades: Articulations of National Belonging” to launch at the University of Iowa. This podcast was born from the Sawyer Seminar and we hope it will continue on afterward.
• The Obermann Center for Advanced Studies, at Iowa, was the birthplace of our Seminar theme, which gave rise to this podcast.

Show notes:

• The full description and list of speakers (and, eventually, links to video recordings of their talks) for the Latina/o/x Citizenship and National Belonging Symposium that took place November 8, 2019, can be found at:  Latina/o/x Citizenship and National Belonging – Imagining Latinidades
• Bios for all of the presenters can be found on our website at:  Presenters – Imagining Latinidades

You can reply to this podcast here:

• Twitter, Instagram, Facebook: @ImaginingLat
• Hosts on Twitter: Darrel is @DoctorDWS, Ariana is @aryruiz710, Rene is @rene5311
• Email: podcast@imagininglatinidades.com 

Credits

• Our cover art, a photo of an installation titled “El Hielo / I.C.E,” is provided courtesy of the artist, Fidencio Fifield-Perez.
• Music by Juan Ruiz.
• Our hosting is provided by Transistor.fm, which we really love.
• Our podcasting app of choice is Overcast.fm, which also makes a handy app that streamlines the process of making the chapter markers in this podcast.

Darrel Wanzer-Serrano, Ariana Ruiz, and Rene Rocha get together again! We engage in some more groaning about how the semester is beating us up, we get to work talking about the recent Latina/o/x Migration symposium, the upcoming Palante, Siempre Palante screening (with filmmaker and former Young Lord, Iris Morales!), and the upcoming Latina/o/x Citizenship and National Belonging symposium. Check the chapter markers for a detailed list of topics. 

★ Thanks to our sponsors ★

• The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s generous support through its Sawyer Seminar program allowed “Imagining Latinidades: Articulations of National Belonging” to launch at the University of Iowa. This podcast was born from the Sawyer Seminar and we hope it will continue on afterward.
• The Obermann Center for Advanced Studies, at Iowa, was the birthplace of our Seminar theme, which gave rise to this podcast.

Show notes:

• Latina/o/x Migration – Imagining Latinidades
• Latina/o/x Citizenship and National Belonging – Imagining Latinidades
• Suzanne Oboler – Imagining Latinidades
• Disposable Strangers: Tracing Mexican American Citizenship and Latinx Belonging Into the 21st Century – Imagining Latinidades
• Latinos and Citizenship: Suzanne Oboler: 9781403967404: Amazon.com: Books
• Rosaldo, Renato. 1994. “Cultural Citizenship and Educational Democracy.” Cultural Anthropology 9 (3): 402-11.
• Flores, William V., and Rina Benmayor, eds. 1997. Latino Cultural Citizenship: Claiming Identity, Space, and Rights. Boston: Beacon. 
• Jillian Báez – Imagining Latinidades
• Latinx Politics and Media Celebrity: The Importance of Latinx Audiences – Imagining Latinidades
• In Search of Belonging: Latinas, Media, and Citizenship (Latinos in Chicago and Midwest): Jillian M Baez: 9780252083419: Amazon.com: Books
• Julie Avril Minich – Imagining Latinidades
• Sugar, Shame, Love: Diabetes, Latinx Literature, and Health Justice – Imagining Latinidades
• Amazon.com: Accessible Citizenships: Disability, Nation, and the Cultural Politics of Greater Mexico eBook: Julie Avril Minich: Kindle Store

You can reply to this podcast here:

• Twitter, Instagram, Facebook: @ImaginingLat
• Hosts on Twitter: Darrel is @DoctorDWS, Ariana is @aryruiz710, Rene is @rene5311
• Email: podcast@imagininglatinidades.com 

Credits

• Our cover art, a photo of an installation titled “El Hielo / I.C.E,” is provided courtesy of the artist, Fidencio Fifield-Perez.
• Music by Juan Ruiz.
• Our hosting is provided by Transistor.fm, which we really love.
• Our podcasting app of choice is Overcast.fm, which also makes a handy app that streamlines the process of making the chapter markers in this podcast.

At the conclusion of the Imagining Latinidades Latina/o/x Migration Symposium in Iowa City, Iowa, co-host and co-director of the Sawyer Seminar, Darrel Wanzer-Serrano sits down with the three invited lecturers to discuss their paths in the field. Questions included:

• What’s your Latina/o/x Studies origin story?
• What does Latina/o/x Studies offer your scholarship and art that disciplinary perspectives/methods might not?
• What’s the value of Latina/o/x Studies to students and higher ed institutions?
• What’s the value of Latina/o/x Studies to communities outside of academia?
• What’s your message to a Latina/o/x listener at a PWI?

Check out the chapter markers if you want to skip to a specific question or answer. 

★ Thanks to our sponsors ★

• The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s generous support through its Sawyer Seminar program allowed “Imagining Latinidades: Articulations of National Belonging” to launch at the University of Iowa. This podcast was born from the Sawyer Seminar and we hope it will continue on afterward.
• The Obermann Center for Advanced Studies, at Iowa, was the birthplace of our Seminar theme, which gave rise to this podcast.

Show notes:

• The full description and list of speakers (and, eventually, links to video recordings of their talks) for the Latina/o/x Migration Symposium that took place October 25, 2019, can be found at:  Latina/o/x Migration – Imagining Latinidades
• Bios for all of the presenters can be found on our website at:  Presenters – Imagining Latinidades
• Caro - Bad Bunny ( Video Oficial ) - YouTube

You can reply to this podcast here:

• Twitter, Instagram, Facebook: @ImaginingLat
• Hosts on Twitter: Darrel is @DoctorDWS, Ariana is @aryruiz710, Rene is @rene5311
• Email: podcast@imagininglatinidades.com 

Credits

• Our cover art, a photo of an installation titled “El Hielo / I.C.E,” is provided courtesy of the artist, Fidencio Fifield-Perez.
• Music by Juan Ruiz.
• Our hosting is provided by Transistor.fm, which we really love.
• Our podcasting app of choice is Overcast.fm, which also makes a handy app that streamlines the process of making the chapter markers in this podcast.

Darrel Wanzer-Serrano, Ariana Ruiz, and Rene Rocha are recording an episode together for the first time since Episode 2. After some groaning about how the semester is beating us up, we get to work talking about the recent La Bamba film screening, the upcoming Palante, Siempre Palante screening (with filmmaker and former Young Lord, Iris Morales!), and the upcoming Latina/o/x Migration symposium. Check the chapter markers for a detailed list of topics. 

★ Thanks to our sponsors ★

• The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s generous support through its Sawyer Seminar program allowed “Imagining Latinidades: Articulations of National Belonging” to launch at the University of Iowa. This podcast was born from the Sawyer Seminar and we hope it will continue on afterward.
• The Obermann Center for Advanced Studies, at Iowa, was the birthplace of our Seminar theme, which gave rise to this podcast.

Show notes:

• Latina/o/x Migration – Imagining Latinidades
• Maura I. Toro-Morn – Imagining Latinidades Latinx Migrations in the Heartland: Genealogies of  Belonging and Transformation – Imagining Latinidades
• Darrel’s little tangent about borderlands is informed by Borderlands / La Frontera: The New Mestiza: Gloria Anzaldúa, Norma Cantú, Aída Hurtado: 9781879960855: Amazon.com: Books See also, Light in the Dark/Luz en lo Oscuro: Rewriting Identity, Spirituality, Reality (Latin America Otherwise): Gloria Anzaldua, AnaLouise Keating: 9780822360094: Amazon.com: Books
• Karma R. Chávez – Imagining Latinidades #Abolish ICE: At the Intersections of Black Radical Thought and Queer and Trans Migrant Activism – Imagining Latinidades
• Queer Migration Politics: Activist Rhetoric and Coalitional Possibilities (Feminist Media Studies): Karma R. Chavez: 9780252079580: Amazon.com: Books
• Fidencio Fifield-Perez – Imagining Latinidades Words Are No Help – Imagining Latinidades

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Credits

• Our cover art, a photo of an installation titled “El Hielo / I.C.E,” is provided courtesy of the artist, Fidencio Fifield-Perez.
• Music by Juan Ruiz.
• Our hosting is provided by Transistor.fm, which we really love.
• Our podcasting app of choice is Overcast.fm, which also makes a handy app that streamlines the process of making the chapter markers in this podcast.

Darrel and Rene are feeling exhausted (and in the best of ways) from the opening Imagining Latinidades conference.  Today, they talk about what they learned, discussed histories and presents of Latina/o/x Studies and Ethnic Studies, and waded into the debate over the term/concept of Latinidad. (No bullet points because that about covers it.)

★ Thanks to our sponsors ★

• The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s generous support through its Sawyer Seminar program allowed “Imagining Latinidades: Articulations of National Belonging” to launch at the University of Iowa. This podcast was born from the Sawyer Seminar and we hope it will continue on afterward.
• The Obermann Center for Advanced Studies, at Iowa, was the birthplace of our Seminar theme, which gave rise to this podcast.

Show notes:

• Opening conference: Imagining Latinidades in Global and National Perspective – Imagining Latinidades
• POROI: Project on Rhetoric of Inquiry | Obermann Center for Advanced Studies — the article Darrel talked about is “Rheoric of Inquiry: Projects and Prospects” by Nelson and Megill in the Quarterly Journal of Speech: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00335638609383756
• The Latino Native American Cultural Center (LNACC) at Iowa has a rich history: https://guides.lib.uiowa.edu/c.php?g=625215
• Rusty Barcelo is the student (turned University president!) to which Darrel referred as having a big role to play in the founding of LNACC at Iowa. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_%22Rusty%22_Barceló
• Cabán, Pedro A. “Moving From the Margins to Where? Three Decades of Latino/a Studies.” Latino Studies 1 (2003): 5–35. https://doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.lst.8600014
• Oboler, Suzanne. “An Open Letter to University Presidents: The Necessity for Latino Studies.” Latino Studies 1, no. 1 (2003): 361–65. https://doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.lst.8600052
• Iowa State University’s US Latina/o Studies program: https://usls.las.iastate.edu. The 25th anniversary symposium information is here: https://language.iastate.edu/usls25/
• Remezcla’s recent (July 30, 2019) Latinidad article: When it Comes to Latinidad, Who Is Included and Who Isn’t?
• The Nation’s recent (Sept. 16, 2019) Latinidad article: The Problem With Latinidad | The Nation
• Scholars on Latinidad(es) — not an exhaustive list: Aparicio, Frances R, and Susana Chávez-Silverman, eds. Tropicalizations: Transcultural Representations of Latinidad Hanover, NH: Dartmouth College, University Press of New England, 1997. Beltran, Cristina. The Trouble With Unity: Latino Politics and the Creation of Identity. London: Oxford University Press, 2010; Latina Feminist Group. “Introduction: Papelitos Guardados: Theorizing Latinidades Through Testimonio,” In Telling to Live: Latina Feminist Testimonios, edited by Latina Feminist Group, 1–24. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2001; Rivera-Servera, Ramón. Performing Queer Latinidad: Dance, Sexuality, Politics. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2012; Rodriguez, Juana Maria. Queer Latinidad: Identity Practices, Discursive Spaces. New York: New York University Press, 2003; Valdivia, Angharad N. Latina/o Communication Studies Today. New York: Peter Lang, 2008.
• La Bamba on October 10th at Film Scene in Iowa City: Film Scene - LA BAMBA

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• Hosts on Twitter: Darrel is @DoctorDWS, Ariana is @aryruiz710, Rene is @rene5311
• Email: podcast@imagininglatinidades.com 

Credits

• Our cover art, a photo of an installation titled “El Hielo / I.C.E,” is provided courtesy of the artist, Fidencio Fifield-Perez.
• Music by Juan Ruiz.
• Our hosting is provided by Transistor.fm, which we really love.
• Our podcasting app of choice is Overcast.fm, which also makes a handy app that streamlines the process of making the chapter markers in this podcast.

At the conclusion of the final day of the Imagining Latinidades opening conference in Iowa City, Iowa, co-host and co-director of the Sawyer Seminar, Rene Rocha sits down with three of the invited lecturers to discuss their paths in the field. This was recorded in front of a live audience! Questions included:

• What’s your Latina/o/x Studies origin story?
• What does Latina/o/x Studies offer your scholarship that disciplinary perspectives/methods might not?
• What’s the value of Latina/o/x Studies to students and higher ed institutions?
• What’s the value of Latina/o/x Studies to communities outside of academia?
• What’s your message to a Latina/o/x listener at a PWI?

Check out the chapter markers if you want to skip to a specific question or answer. 

★ Thanks to our sponsors ★

• The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s generous support through its Sawyer Seminar program allowed “Imagining Latinidades: Articulations of National Belonging” to launch at the University of Iowa. This podcast was born from the Sawyer Seminar and we hope it will continue on afterward.
• The Obermann Center for Advanced Studies, at Iowa, was the birthplace of our Seminar theme, which gave rise to this podcast.

Show notes:

• The full description and list of speakers (and, eventually, links to video recordings of their talks) for the opening conference that took place September 19-21, 2019, can be found at: https://imagininglatinidades.lib.uiowa.edu/schedule/imagining-latinidades-in-global-and-national-perspective/
• Bios for all of the presenters can be found on our website at: https://imagininglatinidades.lib.uiowa.edu/presenters/

You can reply to this podcast here:

• Twitter, Instagram, Facebook: @ImaginingLat
• Hosts on Twitter: Darrel is @DoctorDWS, Ariana is @aryruiz710, Rene is @rene5311
• Email: podcast@imagininglatinidades.com 

Credits

• Our cover art, a photo of an installation titled “El Hielo / I.C.E,” is provided courtesy of the artist, Fidencio Fifield-Perez.
• Music by Juan Ruiz.
• Our hosting is provided by Transistor.fm, which we really love.
• Our podcasting app of choice is Overcast.fm, which also makes a handy app that streamlines the process of making the chapter markers in this podcast.

At the conclusion of the first full day of the Imagining Latinidades opening conference in Iowa City, Iowa, co-host and co-director of the Sawyer Seminar, Darrel Wanzer-Serrano sits down with three of the invited lecturers to discuss their paths in the field. This was recorded in front of a live audience! Questions included:

• What’s your Latina/o/x Studies origin story?
• What does Latina/o/x Studies offer your scholarship that disciplinary perspectives/methods might not?
• What’s the value of Latina/o/x Studies to students and higher ed institutions?
• What’s the value of Latina/o/x Studies to communities outside of academia?
• What’s your message to a Latina/o/x listener at a PWI?

Check out the chapter markers if you want to skip to a specific question or answer. 

★ Thanks to our sponsors ★

• The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s generous support through its Sawyer Seminar program allowed “Imagining Latinidades: Articulations of National Belonging” to launch at the University of Iowa. This podcast was born from the Sawyer Seminar and we hope it will continue on afterward.
• The Obermann Center for Advanced Studies, at Iowa, was the birthplace of our Seminar theme, which gave rise to this podcast.

Show notes:

• The full description and list of speakers (and, eventually, links to video recordings of their talks) for the opening conference that took place September 19-21, 2019, can be found at: https://imagininglatinidades.lib.uiowa.edu/schedule/imagining-latinidades-in-global-and-national-perspective/
• Bios for all of the presenters can be found on our website at: https://imagininglatinidades.lib.uiowa.edu/presenters/

You can reply to this podcast here:

• Twitter, Instagram, Facebook: @ImaginingLat
• Hosts on Twitter: Darrel is @DoctorDWS, Ariana is @aryruiz710, Rene is @rene5311
• Email: podcast@imagininglatinidades.com 

Credits

• Our cover art, a photo of an installation titled “El Hielo / I.C.E,” is provided courtesy of the artist, Fidencio Fifield-Perez.
• Music by Juan Ruiz.
• Our hosting is provided by Transistor.fm, which we really love.
• Our podcasting app of choice is Overcast.fm, which also makes a handy app that streamlines the process of making the chapter markers in this podcast.

Rene is gone(again),so Darrel and Ariana go wild talking about all of the speakers for the upcoming Imagaining Latinidades opening conference. 

• What does  "ImaginingLatinidades" mean?
• Breaking down"imaginary"more
• The idea of"scale"
• "Global" perspective: Introducing the opening conference
• Anna Sampaio
• Borders in Iowa, Mississippi, etc., and the extension of policing in individual's hands
• Valarie Martinez-Ebers
• Gina Pérez
• Claudia Milian
• Natalia Molina
• Arlene Dávila
• Concluding info about the conference, livestreams, roundtable podcast bonus episodes, and more

★ Thanks to our sponsors ★

• The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s generous support through its Sawyer Seminar program allowed “Imagining Latinidades: Articulations of National Belonging” to launch at the University of Iowa. This podcast was born from the Sawyer Seminar and we hope it will continue on afterward.
• The Obermann Center for Advanced Studies, at Iowa, was the birthplace of our Seminar theme, which gave rise to this podcast.

Show notes:

• Charles Taylor’s book, Modern Social Imaginaries, can be found here: https://amzn.to/2YUNSCY
• Juan Flores’s piece on the “Latino Imaginary” is best represented in chapter 9 of From Bomba to Hip-Hop: https://amzn.to/31F0hNf
• Sampaio, Anna. Terrorizing Latina/o Immigrants. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2015. https://amzn.to/31Ax6Le
• Fraga, Luis Ricardo, John A. Garcia, Rodney E. Hero, Michael Jones-Correa, Valerie Martinez-Ebers, and Gary M. Segura.“The Growing Presence of Latinos in the United States,” In Latino Lives in America: Making it Home, 1–27. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2010. https://amzn.to/2KwAroN
• Pérez, Gina M. Citizen, Student, Soldier: Latina/o Youth, JROTC, and the American Dream. New York: New York University Press, 2015. https://amzn.to/2YXnDeZ
• Pérez, Gina M., Frank Andre Guridy, and Adrian Burgos. “Introduction,” In Beyond El Barrio: Everyday Life in Latina/o America, edited by Gina M. Pérez, Frank Andre Guridy, and Adrian Burgos, 1–23. New York: New York University Press, 2010. https://amzn.to/2Kt0ihe
• Milian, Claudia. Latining America: Black-Brown Passages and the Coloring of Latino/a Studies. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2013. https://amzn.to/2Tr3sFp
• ----------. “Latinx Studies: Variations and Velocities.” Cultural Dynamics31, no. 1-2(2019):3–15. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0921374019826196
• Molina, Natalia. How Race Is Made in America: Immigration, Citizenship, and the Historical Power of Racial Scripts. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2014. https://amzn.to/2ySb3mM
• ----------. “The Importance of Place and Place-Makers in the Life of a Los Angeles Community.” Southern California Quarterly 97, no. 1(2015):69–111. https://scq.ucpress.edu/content/97/1/69
• Dávila, Arlene. “Race and the Illusion of Equity in U.S. Latinx Art.” U.S. Latinx Arts Futures Symposium (2016): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ompYcCTjRGs 
• Dávila’s full faculty bio (with links to all of her books): http://as.nyu.edu/content/nyu-as/as/faculty/arlene-davila.html

You can reply to this podcast here:

• Twitter, Instagram, Facebook: @ImaginingLat
• Hosts on Twitter: Darrel is @DoctorDWS, Ariana is @aryruiz710, Rene is @rene5311
• Email: podcast@imagininglatinidades.com

Credits

• Our cover art, a photo of an installation titled “El Hielo / I.C.E,” is provided courtesy of the artist, Fidencio Fifield-Perez.
• Music by Juan Ruiz. 
• Our hosting is provided by Transistor.fm, which we really love. 
• Our podcasting app of choice is Overcast.fm, which also makes a handy app that streamlines the process of making the chapter markers in this podcast. 

In this second episode of the Imagining Latinidades podcast, two of the three co-hosts (Rene is absent) talk with two of the three Mellon fellows who are involved with the Sawyer Seminar. Topics discussed, which form chapter markers in your podcast listening app, include:

• Pronouncing “Latinx” and “LatinX”
• Rachel Torres’s (Latinx superhero) “origin story”
• Lisa Ortiz’s (Latinx superhero) “origin story”
• The importance of Latina/o/x Studies for students
• Lisa’s current research
• Rachel’s current research 
• Latina/o/x Studies' connection between research and community
• What's your message for Latina/o/x students at PWIs?

And don’t forget: our first main event takes place September 19-21. Information on the website at http://imagininglatinidades.com.

★ Thanks to our sponsors ★

• The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s generous support through its Sawyer Seminar program allowed “Imagining Latinidades: Articulations of National Belonging” to launch at the University of Iowa. This podcast was born from the Sawyer Seminar and we hope it will continue on afterward.
• The Obermann Center for Advanced Studies, at Iowa, was the birthplace of our Seminar theme, which gave rise to this podcast.

Show notes:

• Read about Lisa Ortiz and Rachel Torres here: https://imagininglatinidades.lib.uiowa.edu/about/mellon-fellows/
• Rachel mentioned a couple things that made a difference as an undergrad: 1) UNT’s Emerald Eagles Scholars program; 2) UNT’s McNair Scholars program
• Rachel also mentioned a couple of people important to her as an undergrad: Regina Branton | Department of Political Science and Valerie Martinez-Ebers | Department of Political Science
• Lisa’s undergrad program is here: http://business.uprm.edu/adof/index.php. Her Masters program is here: https://www.uprm.edu/english/. Mentors in Puerto Rico included Dr. Jocelyn A. Géliga-Vargas and Dr. Catherine Mazak. 
• A few programs of interest and referenced by Lisa include: the Summer Predoctoral Institute (SPI) at  https://grad.illinois.edu/diversity/spi-objectives; Latina/Latino Studies at Illinois; and La Casa Cultural Latina | La Casa Cultural Latina, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
• On the (historically fraught) relationship between Blackness and Latinidad(es), see the excellent work from the Black Latinas Know Collective: https://www.blacklatinasknow.org/about-blkc. Also see scholarship and other writings in the groundbreaking edited book, The Afro-Latin@ Reader.
• If we had talked about higher education a bit more, Lisa would have mentioned Dr. Roderick Ferguson’s book The Reorder of Things: The University and Its Pedagogies of Minority Difference (2012). 
• For a broader perspective on the “why Latina/o/x Studies question that was discussed, consider Lisa Marie Cacho’s work regarding Ethnic Studies, “But Some of Us Are Wise: Academic Illegitimacy and the Affective Value of Ethnic Studies.” The Black Scholar 40:4: 28-36. PDF available here: https://americanstudies.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/2010_Cacho_Ethnic_Studies.pdf

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• Twitter, Instagram, Facebook: @ImaginingLat
• Hosts on Twitter: Darrel is @DoctorDWS, Ariana is @aryruiz710, Rene is @rene5311
• Email: podcast@imagininglatinidades.com 

Credits

• Our cover art, a photo of an installation titled “El Hielo / I.C.E,” is provided courtesy of the artist, Fidencio Fifield-Perez.
• Music by Juan Ruiz.
• Our hosting is provided by Transistor.fm, which we really love.
• Our podcasting app of choice is Overcast.fm, which also makes a handy app that streamlines the process of making the chapter markers in this podcast.

Darrel, Ariana, and Rene record their first full episode in a real honest-to-goodness studio that doesn’t have terrible acoustics. The episode also has chapters; so you’ll see topics change depending on your podcast app (Overcast shows these well). Topics in this episode include:

• Rene’s backstory
• Darrel’s backstory
• Rene and all having a discussion about “me-search”
• Ariana’s backstory
• Latina/o Studies at Iowa
• The Sawyer Seminar
• What’s next…

★ Thanks to our sponsors ★

• The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s generous support through its Sawyer Seminar program allowed “Imagining Latinidades: Articulations of National Belonging” to launch at the University of Iowa. This podcast was born from the Sawyer Seminar and we hope it will continue on afterward.
• The Obermann Center for Advanced Studies, at Iowa, was the birthplace of our Seminar theme, which gave rise to this podcast.

Show notes:

• Rene’s bio, etc., can be found here: https://clas.uiowa.edu/polisci/people/rene-rocha
• Darrel’s bio, etc., (along with an old pic from when he wore glasses) can be found here: https://clas.uiowa.edu/commstudies/people/darrel-wanzer-serrano
• Ariana’s bio, etc., can be found here: https://spanish-portuguese.uiowa.edu/people/ariana-ruiz
• More recent versions of all the stuff can be found on our Sawyer Seminar website page about the Co-Directors: https://imagininglatinidades.lib.uiowa.edu/about/directors/
• Iowa’s Latina/o Studies Program is on the web here: https://clas.uiowa.edu/latina-latino-studies/
• More information about the Sawyer Seminar Imagining Latinidades: Articulations of National Belonging can be found here (and we recommend also clicking through to the themes for even more info about where we’re coming from): http://imagininglatinidades.com

You can reply to this podcast here:

• Twitter, Instagram, Facebook: @ImaginingLat
• Hosts on Twitter: Darrel is @DoctorDWS, Ariana is @aryruiz710, Rene is @rene5311
• Email: podcast@imagininglatinidades.com

Credits

• Our cover art, a photo of an installation titled “E lHielo / I.C.E,” is provided courtesy of the artist, Fidencio Fifield-Perez.
• Music by Juan Ruiz. 
• Our hosting is provided by Transistor.fm, which we really love. 
• Our podcasting app of choice is Overcast.fm, which also makes a handy app that streamlines the process of making the chapter markers in this podcast.