Best Fernando Perez Leon Podcasts (2024)

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Ariana Mangual Figueroa, "Knowing Silence: How Children Talk about Immigration Status in School" (U Minnesota Press, 2024) 30:03

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Learning from children about citizenship status and how it shapes their schooling. There is a persistent assumption in the field of education that children are largely unaware of their immigration status and its implications. In Knowing Silence: How Children Talk about Immigration Status in School (U Minnesota Press, 2024), Ariana Mangual Figueroa …

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Julia G. Young, "Mexican Exodus: Emigrants, Exiles, and Refugees of the Cristero War" (Oxford UP, 2019) 52:29

11d ago52:29

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In Mexican Exodus: Emigrants, Exiles, and Refugees of the Cristero War (Oxford University Press, 2019), Julia G. Young reframes the Cristero War as a transnational conflict, using previously unexamined archival materials from both Mexico and the United States to investigate the intersections between Mexico's Cristero War and Mexican migration to th…

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Héctor Beltrán, "Code Work: Hacking Across the US/México Techno-Borderlands" (Princeton UP, 2023) 29:42

23d ago29:42

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In Code Work: Hacking Across the US/México Techno-Borderlands (Princeton UP, 2023), Héctor Beltrán examines Mexican and Latinx coders’ personal strategies of self-making as they navigate a transnational economy of tech work. Beltrán shows how these hackers apply concepts from the code worlds to their lived experiences, deploying batches, loose coup…

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Diana Leon-Boys, "Elena, Princesa of the Periphery: Disney’s Flexible Latina Girl" (Rutgers UP, 2023) 1:01:18

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In the summer of 2016, Disney introduced its first Latina princess, Elena of Avalor. Elena, Princess of the Periphery: Disney’s Flexible Latina Girl (Rutgers University Press, 2023) by Dr. Diana Leon-Boys explores this Disney property using multiple case studies to understand its approach to girlhood and Latinidad. Following the circuit of culture …

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The Things We Didn't Know: A Conversation with Elba Iris Pérez 50:35

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Today’s book is: The Things We Didn’t Know (Gallery Books, 2024), by Dr. Elba Iris Pérez’s. A cross-cultural coming-of-age story, The Things We Didn’t Know is inspired by the author’s own experiences growing up between Woronoco, Massachusetts, and Puerto Rico. It explores Andrea Rodríguez’s childhood between Puerto Rico and a small Massachusetts fa…

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Eve Golden, "Strictly Dynamite: The Sensational Life of Lupe Velez" (UP of Kentucky, 2023) 35:11

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Before Salma Hayek, Eva Longoria, and Penelope Cruz, there was Lupe Velez―one of the first Latin-American stars to sweep past the xenophobia of old Hollywood and pave the way for future icons from around the world. Her career began in the silent era, when her beauty was enough to make it onto the silver screen, but with the rise of talkies, Velez c…

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Mauricio Fernando Castro, "Only a Few Blocks to Cuba: Cold War Refugee Policy, the Cuban Diaspora, and the Transformations of Miami" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024) 1:11:19

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In Only a Few Blocks to Cuba: Cold War Refugee Policy, the Cuban Diaspora, and the Transformations of Miami (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024), Mauricio Castro shows how the U.S. government came to view Cuban migration to Miami as a strategic asset during the Cold War, in the process investing heavily in the city's development and shaping its future as a…

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David Ostrowsky, "Roberto Alomar: The Complicated Life and Legacy of a Baseball Hall of Famer" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2024) 43:23

2M ago43:23

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Roberto Alomar was not just a five-tool Hall of Famer; he was a magician on the diamond, a generational talent whose defensive wizardry left teammates and opponents breathless. Yet, despite his twelve All-Star selections and ten Gold Glove awards, he has remained one of the most contentious and enigmatic characters in baseball’s history. Roberto Al…

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Carly Goodman, "Dreamland: America's Immigration Lottery in an Age of Restriction" (UNC Press, 2023) 1:10:10

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In a world of border walls and obstacles to migration, a lottery where winners can gain permanent residency in the United States sounds too good to be true. Just as unlikely is the idea that the United States would make such visas available to foster diversity within a country where systemic racism endures. But in 1990, the United States Diversity …

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Laurence Ralph, "Sito: An American Teenager and the City That Failed Him" (Grand Central Publishing, 2023) 48:50

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In September of 2019, Luis Alberto Quiñonez—known as Sito— was shot to death as he sat in his car in the Mission District of San Francisco. He was nineteen. His killer, Julius Williams, was seventeen. It was the second time the teens had encountered one another. The first, five years before, also ended in tragedy, when Julius watched as his brother…

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Mirelsie Velazquez, "Puerto Rican Chicago: Schooling the City, 1940-1977" (U Illinois Press, 2022) 1:02:55

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The postwar migration of Puerto Rican men and women to Chicago brought thousands of their children into city schools. These children's classroom experience continued the colonial project begun in their homeland, where American ideologies had dominated Puerto Rican education since the island became a US territory. Mirelsie Velázquez tells how Chicag…

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Marisol LeBrón, "Policing Life and Death: Race, Violence, and Resistance in Puerto Rico" (U California Press, 2019) 1:05:41

3M ago1:05:41

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Marisol LeBrón’s new book, Policing Life and Death: Race, Violence, and Resistance in Puerto Rico (University of California Press, 2019), examines the rise of and resistance to punitive governance (tough on crime policing policies) in Puerto Rico from the 1990s to the present. As in the United States, LeBrón shows how increased investment in polici…

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Richard T. Rodríguez, "A Kiss Across the Ocean: Transatlantic Intimacies of British Post-Punk and US Latinidad" (Duke UP, 2022) 1:07:08

3M ago1:07:08

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In A Kiss Across the Ocean: Transatlantic Intimacies of British Post-Punk and US Latinidad (Duke UP, 2022), Richard T. Rodríguez examines the relationship between British post-punk musicians and their Latinx audiences in the United States since the 1980s. Melding memoir with cultural criticism, Rodríguez spotlights a host of influential bands and p…

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Julia Ornelas-Higdon, "The Grapes of Conquest: Race, Labor, and the Industrialization of California Wine, 1769–1920" (U Nebraska Press, 2023) 56:29

3M ago56:29

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California’s wine country conjures images of pastoral vineyards and cellars lined with oak barrels. As a mainstay of the state’s economy, California wines occupy the popular imagination like never before and drive tourism in famous viticultural regions across the state. Scholars know remarkably little, however, about the history of the wine industr…

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Aimee Loiselle, "Beyond Norma Rae: How Puerto Rican and Southern White Women Fought for a Place in the American Working Class" (UNC Press, 2023) 55:45

4M ago55:45

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In the late 1970s, Hollywood producers took the published biography of Crystal Lee Sutton, a white southern textile worker, and transformed it into a blockbuster 1979 film, Norma Rae, featuring Sally Field in the title role. This fascinating book reveals how the film and the popular icon it created each worked to efface the labor history that forme…

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Kris Rodriguez - Flame (Original Mix) 2:00

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Sound Tool Records Presents 'Flame' SINGLE with the code of release STR162 In charge of the artist(s): Kris RodriguezIncludes 1 tracks:1. Kris Rodriguez - Flame (Original Mix)Available on all store:Friday, Dec 22nd 2023www.strlabel.jimdo.com | #soundtoolrecordsSEND YOUR DEMOS TO:soundtoolrecords@gmail.comF O L L O W . U S:Facebook: bit.ly/strfacebo…

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Cesar Mantilla, Fede Portella - Barranco (Original Mix) 2:00

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Sound Tool Records Presents 'Barranco' EP with the code of release STR161 In charge of the artist(s): Cesar Mantilla, Fede Portella.Includes 2 tracks:1. Cesar Mantilla, Fede Portella - Barranco (Original Mix)2. Cesar Mantilla, Fede Portella - Puente De Los Suspiros (Original Mix)Available on all store:Friday, Dec 15th 2023www.strlabel.jimdo.com | #…

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Cesar Mantilla, Fede Portella - Puente De Los Suspiros (Original Mix) 2:00

4M ago2:00

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Sound Tool Records Presents 'Barranco' EP with the code of release STR161 In charge of the artist(s): Cesar Mantilla, Fede Portella.Includes 2 tracks:1. Cesar Mantilla, Fede Portella - Barranco (Original Mix)2. Cesar Mantilla, Fede Portella - Puente De Los Suspiros (Original Mix)Available on all store:Friday, Dec 15th 2023www.strlabel.jimdo.com | #…

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Jhon Timbala - House For Dancing (Original Mix) 2:00

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Sound Tool Records Presents 'House For Dancing' EP with the code of release STR160 In charge of the artist(s): Jhon Timbala.Includes 2 tracks:1. Jhon Timbala - House For Dancing (Original Mix)2. Jhon Timbala - That's How I Do It (Original Mix)Available on all store:Friday, Sept 01st 2023www.strlabel.jimdo.com | #soundtoolrecordsSEND YOUR DEMOS TO:s…

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Jhon Timbala - That's How I Do It (Original Mix) 2:00

4M ago2:00

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Sound Tool Records Presents 'House For Dancing' EP with the code of release STR160 In charge of the artist(s): Jhon Timbala.Includes 2 tracks:1. Jhon Timbala - House For Dancing (Original Mix)2. Jhon Timbala - That's How I Do It (Original Mix)Available on all store:Friday, Sept 01st 2023www.strlabel.jimdo.com | #soundtoolrecordsSEND YOUR DEMOS TO:s…

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Kris Rodriguez - Male (Original Mix) 2:00

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Sound Tool Records Presents 'Male' EP with the code of release STR159 In charge of the artist(s): Kris Rodriguez.Includes 2 tracks:1. Kris Rodriguez - Male (Original Mix)2. Kris Rodriguez - Insomnio (Original Mix)Available on all store:Friday, May 19th 2023www.strlabel.jimdo.com | #soundtoolrecordsSEND YOUR DEMOS TO:soundtoolrecords@gmail.comF O L …

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STR159: Kris Rodriguez - Insomnio (Original Mix) 2:00

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Sound Tool Records Presents 'Male' EP with the code of release STR159 In charge of the artist(s): Kris Rodriguez.Includes 2 tracks:1. Kris Rodriguez - Male (Original Mix)2. Kris Rodriguez - Insomnio (Original Mix)Available on all store:Friday, May 19th 2023www.strlabel.jimdo.com | #soundtoolrecordsSEND YOUR DEMOS TO:soundtoolrecords@gmail.comF O L …

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Trent Masiki, "The Afro-Latino Memoir: Race, Ethnicity, and Literary Interculturalism" (UNC Press, 2023) 35:06

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Despite their literary and cultural significance, Afro-Latino memoirs have been marginalized in both Latino and African American studies. Trent Masiki remedies this problem by bringing critical attention to the understudied African American influences in Afro-Latino memoirs published after the advent of the Black Arts movement. In The Afro-Latino M…

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Cecilia Márquez, "Making the Latino South: A History of Racial Formation" (UNC Press, 2023) 48:27

6M ago48:27

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The presence of Latinx people in the American South has long confounded the region's persistent racial binaries. In Making the Latino South: A History of Racial Formation (UNC Press, 2023), Cecilia Márquez uses social and cultural history methods to assess the racial logics that have shaped the Latinx experience in the region since the middle of th…

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Sarah Mayorga, "Urban Specters: The Everyday Harms of Racial Capitalism" (UNC Press, 2023) 44:31

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Racial capitalism, invisible but threaded throughout the world, shapes our lives. Focusing on the experiences of white, Black, and Latinx residents of Cincinnati, Sarah Mayorga argues that residents' interpretations of their circumstances, what she calls urban specters, are often partial recognitions of the exploitation and dehumanization produced …

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Marisel C. Moreno, "Crossing Waters: Undocumented Migration in Hispanophone Caribbean and Latinx Literature and Art" (U Texas Press, 2022) 1:15:37

7M ago1:15:37

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Debates over the undocumented migration of Latin Americans invariably focus on the southern US border, but most migrants never cross that arbitrary line. Instead, many travel, via water, among the Caribbean islands. The first study to examine literary and artistic representations of undocumented migration within the Hispanophone Caribbean, Crossing…

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Carmen Haydée Rivera and Jorge Duany, "Cuba and Puerto Rico: Transdisciplinary Approaches to History, Literature, and Culture" (U Florida Press, 2023) 40:07

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Carmen Haydée Rivera and Jorge Duany's edited volume Cuba and Puerto Rico: Transdisciplinary Approaches to History, Literature, and Culture (U Florida Press, 2023) is the first systematic, comparative study of Cuba and Puerto Rico from both a historical and contemporary perspective. In these essays, contributors highlight the interconnectedness of …

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Lisandro Pérez, "The House on G Street: A Cuban Family Saga" (NYU Press, 2023) 59:49

7M ago59:49

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In The House on G Street: A Cuban Family Saga (NYU Press, 2023), award-winning author Lisandro Pérez tells Cuba’s story through the lens of a single family: his own. His book relays the tales of two officers who fought against the Spanish for Cuban independence; a plantation owner who smuggles himself onto a ship; families divided by political loya…

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Joo Ok Kim, "Warring Genealogies: Race, Kinship, and the Korean War" (Temple UP, 2022) 50:23

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“[W]hat is our relationship to the Korean War and to the affinities” of different institutions that produce knowledge about the Korean War? (130) In her book, Warring Genealogies: Race, Kinship, and the Korean War (Temple UP, 2022), Joo Ok Kim “conceptualizes racialized formations of kinship emerging from the Korean War as a problem of knowledge” (…

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Ariana Mangual Figueroa, "Knowing Silence: How Children Talk about Immigration Status in School" (U Minnesota Press, 2024) 30:03

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Julia G. Young, "Mexican Exodus: Emigrants, Exiles, and Refugees of the Cristero War" (Oxford UP, 2019) 52:29

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Héctor Beltrán, "Code Work: Hacking Across the US/México Techno-Borderlands" (Princeton UP, 2023) 29:42

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Diana Leon-Boys, "Elena, Princesa of the Periphery: Disney’s Flexible Latina Girl" (Rutgers UP, 2023) 1:01:18

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The Things We Didn't Know: A Conversation with Elba Iris Pérez 50:35

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Eve Golden, "Strictly Dynamite: The Sensational Life of Lupe Velez" (UP of Kentucky, 2023) 35:11

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Mauricio Fernando Castro, "Only a Few Blocks to Cuba: Cold War Refugee Policy, the Cuban Diaspora, and the Transformations of Miami" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024) 1:11:19

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David Ostrowsky, "Roberto Alomar: The Complicated Life and Legacy of a Baseball Hall of Famer" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2024) 43:23

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Carly Goodman, "Dreamland: America's Immigration Lottery in an Age of Restriction" (UNC Press, 2023) 1:10:10

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Laurence Ralph, "Sito: An American Teenager and the City That Failed Him" (Grand Central Publishing, 2023) 48:50

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Mirelsie Velazquez, "Puerto Rican Chicago: Schooling the City, 1940-1977" (U Illinois Press, 2022) 1:02:55

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Marisol LeBrón, "Policing Life and Death: Race, Violence, and Resistance in Puerto Rico" (U California Press, 2019) 1:05:41

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Richard T. Rodríguez, "A Kiss Across the Ocean: Transatlantic Intimacies of British Post-Punk and US Latinidad" (Duke UP, 2022) 1:07:08

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Julia Ornelas-Higdon, "The Grapes of Conquest: Race, Labor, and the Industrialization of California Wine, 1769–1920" (U Nebraska Press, 2023) 56:29

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Aimee Loiselle, "Beyond Norma Rae: How Puerto Rican and Southern White Women Fought for a Place in the American Working Class" (UNC Press, 2023) 55:45

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Kris Rodriguez - Flame (Original Mix) 2:00

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Cesar Mantilla, Fede Portella - Barranco (Original Mix) 2:00

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Cesar Mantilla, Fede Portella - Puente De Los Suspiros (Original Mix) 2:00

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Jhon Timbala - House For Dancing (Original Mix) 2:00

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Jhon Timbala - That's How I Do It (Original Mix) 2:00

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Kris Rodriguez - Male (Original Mix) 2:00

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STR159: Kris Rodriguez - Insomnio (Original Mix) 2:00

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Trent Masiki, "The Afro-Latino Memoir: Race, Ethnicity, and Literary Interculturalism" (UNC Press, 2023) 35:06

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Cecilia Márquez, "Making the Latino South: A History of Racial Formation" (UNC Press, 2023) 48:27

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Sarah Mayorga, "Urban Specters: The Everyday Harms of Racial Capitalism" (UNC Press, 2023) 44:31

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Marisel C. Moreno, "Crossing Waters: Undocumented Migration in Hispanophone Caribbean and Latinx Literature and Art" (U Texas Press, 2022) 1:15:37

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Carmen Haydée Rivera and Jorge Duany, "Cuba and Puerto Rico: Transdisciplinary Approaches to History, Literature, and Culture" (U Florida Press, 2023) 40:07

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Lisandro Pérez, "The House on G Street: A Cuban Family Saga" (NYU Press, 2023) 59:49

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Joo Ok Kim, "Warring Genealogies: Race, Kinship, and the Korean War" (Temple UP, 2022) 50:23

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