Got to serve as a panelist on Melissa Harris-Perry again, this time with host Joy-Ann Reid. Chatted about the zealotry of Republican state legislatures and other topics with Dorian Warren, Ari Berman, and Robert George. Clips are here, here, here, here, and here.

Part of winning a Casa de las Americas Literary Award last year was the honor of having The Trouble with Unity translated into Spanish—and three copies of El problema de la unidad just arrived, direct from Havana!

Had the pleasure of being a panelist again on Melissa Harris-Perry, this time with Ari Melber as guest host. Chatted with Raul Reyes, Jamal Simmons, and Matt Welch about the U.S. immigration bill and with Reyes, Jordan Goldberg, Salamishah Tillet, and Amy Hagstrom Miller about abortion-restriction legislation in Congress and state legislatures. Good times. (Also,…

My March 7 talk at UC Berkeley, "Undocumented, Unafraid, and Unapologetic: DREAM Activism and the Queering of Democratic Citizenship," is online here. The description: "Dr. Cristina Beltrán looks at how DREAM activists, particularly queer DREAM activists, use forms of new social media as a space of confrontation, creativity, and self-assertion. By working to queer the…

On Melissa Harris-Perry again this morning, with Seton Hall law professor Mark Alexander, Time writer Michael Crowley, and Columbia associate professor Dorian Warren. Got to chat about Chris Christie, entitlements, and presidential power. Some great discussions! The individual show segments are here, here, here, and here.

Some of my post-election thoughts went into an essay for NBC Latino. "…[R]ather than a monolithic cultural community, Latinos are in fact a series of communities. At times these populations display widespread agreement, as on Nov. 6. Support for Obama in the 2012 presidential election is an excellent example of Latinos expressing a shared political…

Had the pleasure of spending part of the evening of Nov. 6 with Sandra Lilley of NBCLatino, along with Stephen Nuño and Raul Reyes, discussing the Latino electorate. (Then went to a friend's apartment to watch state-by-state returns!) Video clip is here.

I was delighted to return to Melissa Harris-Perry October 20 to discuss Todd Akin, voter suppression, and other provocative topics. I'm on halfway through this segment and toward the end of this one.

 Quoted in Sandra Lilley's feature on Latino Catholics, based on a new survey from Pew Hispanic Center and Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life: …“In the public imagination, people equate ‘Latino’ with ‘social conservative,’ but these polls show that politically, thi s is not necessarily the case,” says Cristina Beltrán, Associate Professor of Social and…

Two more journal reviews of The Trouble with Unity—both of them thoughtful and generous—have come to my attention: In Latino Studies, U.C. Berkeley sociologist G. Cristina Mora calls the book "a must-read for all those interested in Latino Politics, Latino Identity and Political Theory." She continues: "In a context where political parties are still trying…