I am planning on using this paper in my Capstone class!!

Awaiting their Feast looks at Latinx food activism and the desire for latino labor alongside the animosity towards latino immigration. It focuses on the Northeast with a considerable amount of time on Maine. It is a fascinating read. 4/4

To the Medellín conference, which sparked a recommitment to the poor (Pope Francis was informed by this) and to influence on Latinx civil rights and farm worker movement. It also nods to our current times and ICE, though was written to nod to the last Trump administration. 3/4

Brown Church suggests that the Latine Church, while seeming at first like a choque in Nepantla to some atheist liberals, instead has defined its own theology that takes a buen vivir like stance. It chronicles a broader history from Freire to De la Vega and the Virgen Guadalupe... 2/4

Super excited!

Me too! Good guy!

...is harder than it looks & doing it effectively is a talent that has to be practiced and honed. The future of #democracy and civil discourse demand it.

The thing that keeps me teaching still is knowing how important this work is and being part of it.
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I like to send them into break with something fun - just in case someone tries to pull any Bad Bunny bullshit at the Thanksgiving table. 🤣

But it is serious too. Whether they are refuting with numbers and figures or with words, jumping in to defend the truth (e.g. PR is American)...
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there are basically not enough republican voters to create enough safe seats to withstand the kind of wave that, for example, turned virginia into a democratic supermajority state for the first time in the modern era of its politics