Contributors

Russell Contreras is a reporter with The Associated Press in Albuquerque, N.M. He has worked at the Boston Globe and the Albuquerque Journal. He is currently working on book about President John F. Kennedy and the Mexican American Civil Rights… Read More

María DeGuzmán is Professor of English and Comparative Literature and founding Director of Latina/o Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is the author of two books: Spain’s Long Shadow: The Black Legend, Off-Whiteness, and Anglo-American… Read More

Ada Ferrer is Professor of History and Latin American and Caribbean Studies at New York University. She is the author of Insurgent Cuba: Race, Nation, and Revolution, 1868-1898, which won the 2000 Berkshire Book Prize and has been translated into… Read More

Iveris Luz Martinez was born in Jersey City, New Jersey to Cuban exiles and grew up in West New York speaking Spanish as her first language. She completed a Bachelor’s of Arts in Sociology and Anthropology from Florida International University,… Read More

John Mckiernan-González is the author of Fevered Measures: Public Health and Race at the Texas-Mexico Border, 1848-1942 and the co-editor of Precarious Prescriptions: Contested Histories of Race and Health in North America. He brings his migrant experiences living in Colombia,… Read More

Claudia Milian is Associate Professor of Romance Studies and Director of the Program in Latino/a in the Global South at Duke University. She is the author of Latining America: Black-Brown Passages and the Coloring Latino/a Studies.

Nancy Raquel Mirabal is Associate Professor of American Studies and U.S. Latina/o Studies and Director of the U.S. Latina/o Studies Program at the University of Maryland, College Park. She is the author of Suspect Freedoms: The Racial and Sexual Politics… Read More

Blanca Torres is a writer and journalist based in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she currently writes about real estate and development for the San Francisco Business Times. Besides news reports, she writes fiction, memoir and essays and earned… Read More