Photo Credit: Caleb Duarte, “Floating Ladder”
Books
- The Undocumented Everyday: Migrant Lives and the Politics of Visibility. (University of Minnesota Press, 2018).
- Cold War Exiles in Mexico: U.S. Dissidents and the Culture of Critical Resistance. (University of Minnesota Press, 2008).
Edited Collections
- “Radical Histories of Sanctuary,” co-edited with Naomi Paik and Jason Ruiz, and co-author of Introduction, “Sanctuary’s Radical Networks,” with Naomi Paik and Jason Ruiz, Radical History Review 135 (October 2019).
Articles and Chapters
- “The Work of Arte Urgente: Performative Acts of Political and Artistic Imagination” in Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture (2022) 4 (3): 23–43.
- “Visions of Refuge: The Central American Exodus and the Floating Ladder” in the special issue on “Exiles, Migrants, and Refugees,” American Literary History, vol 34, no. 3, pp.1015-1040.
- “Performing Sanctuary,” Migration and Society, Issue 4 (2021).
- “Visible Frictions: The Border Film Project and Self-Representation in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands,” Editors Katherine Morrissey and John-Michael Warner, Border Spaces: Visualizing the U.S.-Mexico Frontera (University of Arizona Press, 2018).
- “Counter-Documents: Undocumented Activists, Documentary Media, and the Politics of Visibility,” Editors Sara Blair, Franny Nudelman and Joseph Entin, Remaking Reality: U.S. Documentary Culture after 1945 (University of North Carolina Press, 2018).
- “Reconfiguring Documentation: Immigration, Activism and Practices of Visibility,” Editors Omar Valerio-Jiménez, Santiago Vaquera-Vásquez and Claire F. Fox, The Latina/o Midwest Reader (University of Illinois Press, 2017).
- “The Undocumented Everyday: Migrant Rights and Visual Strategies in the work of Alex Rivera,” Journal of American Studies, Special Issue on U.S. Immigration (April 2016).
- “Confronting Regimes of Legality in Sanctuary City/Ciudad Santuario, 1989–2009“ in “Calling the Law into Question: Confronting the Illegal and Illicit in Public Arenas,” Radical History Review 113 (Spring 2012).
- “Dislocations of Cold War Cultures: Exile, Transnationalism, and the Politics of Form,” Editors Sandhya Shukla and Heidi Tinsman, Imagining Our Americas: Towards a Transnational Frame (Duke University Press, 2007).
- “Resort to Exile: Willard Motley’s Writings on Postwar U.S. Tourism in Mexico,” Editor, Nicholas Bloom, Adventures into Mexico: American Tourism Beyond the Border (Rowman and Littlefield Press, Scholarly Resources Books Division, Jaguar Series on Latin America, 2006).
- “The Labors of Looking: Unseenamerica and the Visual Economy of Work,” American Quarterly 56.4 (December 2004).
Publications (Non-Peer Reviewed)
- “Sovereignty and Sanctuary: A Roundtable,” Chiricú Journal: Latina/o Literatures, Arts, and Cultures 3.1 (Fall 2018). Co-authored and co-edited with Rafael A. Martínez.
- “Counter-Documents: Migrant Activists, Mobility, and the Politics of Visibility,” Living Commons 1.1 (February 2018).