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

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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.