My small contribution to the Cesar Chavez-UFW tragedy, focused mainly on his legacy and what to teach current and future students about him in my Latino history classes. For @theatlantic.com. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

The first review of my book is in from @chicagoreader.com! Publication day for Unsettling Territory is less than a week away!! chicagoreader.com/books/book-r...

More H2A visas that include a path to legalization? Good! Paying farmworkers even less? Bad!https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/15/us/politics/farm-labor-trump-migrant-workers-h2a.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

New at PB: In the season 4 premiere of our podcast Writing Latinos, @geraldo-cadava.bsky.social talks with author and NY Times reporter Jazmine Ulloa (@jazmineulloa.bsky.social) about her new book "El Paso" (Dutton).

As promised! Season 4, Episode 1, of Writing Latinos from @publicbooks.bsky.social! I'm thrilled to kick things off with @jazmineulloa.bsky.social discussing her new book: El Paso: Five Families and One Hundred Years of Blood, Migration, Race, and Memory. www.publicbooks.org/jazmine-ullo...

I can't believe it, but we're doing another season--Season 4--of Writing Latinos, from @publicbooks.bsky.social. First episode will be up tomorrow! Be sure to tune in!

"Talarico carried suburbs with affluent white liberals and areas with large numbers of Hispanic voters – including San Antonio and the Rio Grande Valley along the US-Mexico border." www.bbc.com/news/article...

Indigenous slavery, which lasted for centuries, has gone by many names. A new public history project wants us to see it for what it was. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/6enUA-

My essay for @newyorker.com on @natboundunbound.bsky.social and Indigenous slavery generally is in some ways a deep dive, but in other ways it barely scratches the surface. The field has a rich past, and also lots of new work. If you want to learn more, see: www.newyorker.com/books/page-t...

It was a real privilege to do a deep dive into the history of Indigenous slavery, through a new digital archive called @natboundunbound.bsky.social. It felt like a really important topic to me, and a really important project. Thank you for reading and sharing!

Get ready for new book from @kathleenbelew.bsky.social! Coming soon!

Ricardo meant so much to so many. Read this piece from @publicbooks.bsky.social, by Maia Gil'Adi, about her work and Ricardo's influence. www.publicbooks.org/xoxo-ricardo...

I’m choosing to see bad Bunny’s performance as an America 250 reset.

América, come on in, the water’s fine!! This America doesn’t exclude other Americas. For me, this performance marks the beginning of the national birthday party I want to attend. youtu.be/G6FuWd4wNd8?...

What a celebration of latinidad and Latin America!

Hey all, check out the new look at @publicbooks.bsky.social!! It's awesome, I think. www.publicbooks.org

Not too surprising considering half of border patrol is Latino. But why are agents from South Texas being sent to Minnesota to do crowd control? Seems like a recipe for disaster. www.propublica.org/article/alex...

An especially beautiful and cold approach to Chicago today!

I appreciate meditations on Minneapolis showing us effective resistance through grassroots community and civic engagement. I would just add that we've been seeing it since last summer--in Los Angeles, Chicago, Minneapolis. It's bigger than any one place, and that's a good thing.

Kanye West’s rehabilitation will revolutionize the world of kids’ baseball walkup music.

I.e., a Latina reckons with the fact that, no matter how many values or policy positions she feels she shares with the Trump admin, she isn’t included in Stephen Miller’s understanding of a white nationalist America, and who makes up “western civilization.” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/u...

“How is one supposed to build a profile within the MAGA universe if one cannot post?” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/u...

Horrific x.com/justdawn_/st...

Administration floats # of 100 million "remigrations." That's about 29 percent of the U.S. population. Nonwhite people make up about 40 percent of the U.S. population. So, I wonder where most of those 100 million would come from, if they had their way? 🧐 www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

such a good piece: "There is no humanity for the civilians and no humility for the officers." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/o...

Here's a good one, by Michael Bustamante, for @publicbooks.bsky.social. He's sharp ... www.publicbooks.org/will-cuban-a...

Whole video worth watching, but I think you’ll understand why the last thing he says appeals to me the most—“read history, we learn from history.” (He’s encouraging people to read about Germany in 1930s) x.com/fox9/status/...

He has been talking about expanding the national territory for at least a year. Shouldn't be a surprise to anyone that he would try to grab whatever he can. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Winning a war is easy, governing is harder. This Is What Venezuelans Really Want www.nytimes.com/2026/01/04/o...

Hey, look, writing can be fun to read, too! This is a fun piece from my friend Jake Lundberg, about the joys of Costco in a mad world. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

Great article by compa Jack Herrera. I love the writing, and I love Natalia Lafourcade.

Some more good thoughts for the New Year ...

I like this way of thinking about resolutions. www.theatlantic.com/family/2025/...

I think this is a cool story, in addition, of course, to suggesting a potentially important argument for blocking the deployment of national guard here in Chicago and elsewhere. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/u...

Yet more eww, cringe, and ick. The War on ‘Wokeness’ Comes to the U.S. Mint www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/u...

Here's an interesting catalog of "Latino Paris" and the Latin American-European connection. With latinidad under attack here, will it move to other parts of the globe where it also has a long history? www.publicbooks.org/paris-latino...

An excellent review of a new novel-in-translation. Novel about the Spanish Civil Wars’s reverberations in the Americas. Review by Kirsten Weld, for @publicbooks.bsky.social. @kirstenweld.bsky.social www.publicbooks.org/no-end-to-th...

Writing about @natboundunbound.bsky.social, and listening to the powerful folk ballad, "La cautiva Marcelina," performed by Gregorio Gonzales. It's haunting. Check it out here: soundcloud.com/dr-gregorio-...

ICE policy: “Unless ICE is effectuating an enforcement action against the minor child(ren), ICE personnel should not, under any circumstances, take custody of or transport the minor child(ren).” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...

Federal agents have violently arrested hundreds of undocumented immigrants in Chicago. @geraldo-cadava.bsky.social talks to pastors, activists, and lawyers about what’s really going on in the city and what their response should be. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

Thanks @kathleenbelew.bsky.social! Yes, please go read piece if you wanna know what's happening in this great city where the tension has ramped up because of the federal presence.

Here's historian David Blight talking about Trump's war on history, and some historian in Trump's orbit I've never heard of. Blight challenges him to a debate. He curated the project that my piece was a part of, and he wrote the introductory essay. Here's the clip: www.msnbc.com/the-last-wor...

Don't miss @thenewrepublic.bsky.social's new series on Trump's attack on history curated by @dblight.bsky.social. Four pieces dropped online today (by @dblight.bsky.social, @geraldo-cadava.bsky.social, Leslie M. Harris & yours truly); more coming soon. newrepublic.com/series/67/tr...

It was fun for me to write this essay as part of a project with so many historians I admire, about what it means to teach history in the second Trump administration. newrepublic.com/article/1983...

Can't wait for this! www.chicagohistory.org/exhibition/a...

Carlos González Gutiérrez, the Consul General of Mexico in L.A., is fighting for Mexican Los Angeles. "When you are here, if you are a Mexican national, you realize that you belong, that, to a great extent, this is a Mexican city." Thank you for reading. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

Check out this BBC News segment with Erica Lubliner and Dana Rusch, about the work they do with their Latino and immigrant patients. Starts at minute 27. They’re badass. I wrote about them in my recent @newyorker.com piece. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Erica Lubliner, who directs a clinic that offers mental-health services to Latinos at UCLA: “ICE is going after the gardener with his truck, the workers at the car wash. The idea that they are somehow dangerous cuts at their identity in a deep way…They feel unwanted. They feel targeted.”

Heartbreaking. It's so immoral to be traumatizing and retraumatizing whole communities like this.