Visited UCLA in late February for a work-in-progress workshop and presented a paper exploring "the resonances between AIDS activism and undocumented activism," which went extremely well: UCLA faculty and graduate students have always been extraordinarily helpful and supportive—sparking fruitful conversations, sending my thinking in fresh directions, clarifying my arguments, and helping me over rough patches…

In the wake of the shooting of NYPD officers Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos, I got to join MSNBC's Melissa Harris-Perry and guest host Dorian Warren to discuss race relations. I'm in the segments "How to move forward in the race conversation" (on at 1:35 and 8:15) and "What does future hold for ongoing protests?"…

In issue 32 of Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, Northwestern literature professor Betsy Erkkilä writes a comprehensive review of John Seery's A Political Companion to Walt Whitman, in which I have an essay on Whitman and Barack Obama, titled “Mestiza Politics: Walt Whitman, Barack Obama, and the Question of Union.” Erkkilä writes: "Whereas in the past, Whitman’s…

A few days before the midterm election, I got to spend the morning on Melissa Harris-Perry with fellow panelists Maya Harris, Katon Dawson, Kai Wright, Ian Haney-Lopez, and Jeff Chang. The segments: "Why Joni Ernst isn’t winning over Iowa women" (I speak at 3:30), "Scott Walker tries to woo women voters" (at 5:40), "Obama in…

Out from NYU Press: Contemporary Latina/o Media: Production, Circulation, Politics, edited by Arlene Dávila and Yeidy Rivero. An essay of mine ("'No Papers, No Fear': DREAM Activism, New Social Media, and the Queering of Immigrant Rights") is included alongside work by a lot of terrific scholars on Latinos and the full range of media today.…

In the middle of the Ferguson, Mo., crisis, Melissa Harris-Perry pulled together two this-is-happening-right-now shows, and I was on August 17, with Jelani Cobb, Marc Steiner, Marquez Claxton, and Khalil Gibran Muhammad. I'm in three segments: "This is 1961 in Ferguson" (I speak at 7:00), "The larger context of Michael Brown shooting" (at 2:50), and…

Very excited that the long-awaited Spring 2014 issue of the Du Bois Review, titled "Race in a 'Postracial' Epoch," is out; editors Robert Gooding-Williams and Charles W. Mills have compiled a terrific collection of new articles by Paul C. Taylor, Lawrie Balfour, Tommie Shelby, Kathryn T. Gines, Derrick Darby and Argun Saatcioglu, Sally Haslanger, and…

Great to be back on Melissa Harris-Perry, this time with Raul Reyes and USC professor Jane Junn, co-author of The Politics of Belonging: Race, Public Opinion, and Immigration (winner of this year's APSA Ralph Bunche Award). Jane served on my dissertation committee at Rutgers long ago, so it was a pleasure to chat on and…

My first-ever guest-editing effort is in print! Ange-Marie Hancock and I edited a special issue of the WPSA journal Politics, Groups, and Identities, titled "Latino Politics and Political Theory: Rights, Power, and Membership," featuring original articles by P.J. Brendese, Juliet Hooker, Anna Sampaio, Paul Apostolidis and Abel Valenzuela Jr., Michael John Sullivan, and Edwina Barvosa,…

In the new issue of Theory & Event, Whitman College professor Paul Apostolidis writes a generous, comprehensive review of The Trouble With Unity: "As a theoretical intervention, the book’s foremost contribution is to demonstrate how certain perspectives in democratic theory can open up unappreciated vistas on the politics of race and ethnicity in the United…