SINGLE-AUTHORED BOOKS
Assimilation: An Alternative History. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2020 (Honorable Mention, 2020 Modern Language Association Prize in United States Latina and Latino and Chicana and Chicano Literary and Cultural Studies).
The Woman in the Zoot Suit: Gender, Nationalism, and the Cultural Politics of Memory. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2009.
EDITED VOLUME AND SPECIAL SERIES
“The Border Is the Crisis: Reflections on the Centenary of the Immigration Act of 1924,” co-edited with A. Naomi Paik. Public Books, May 27, 2024.
Precarity and Belonging: Labor, Migration, and Noncitizenship, co-edited with Sylvanna M. Falcón, Steven C. McKay, Juan Poblete, and Felicity Amaya Schaeffer. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press (2021).
“From ‘Crisis’ to Futurity: Migration and Borderlands in the 21st Century,” co-edited with Geraldo Cadava and A. Naomi Paik. Public Books, July 5, 2021.
ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS
“Undocutime: DREAMers, Lost Children Archive, and the Politics of Waiting and Storytelling in Twenty-first-Century Migration Narratives,” Latino Studies 22 (2024): 533-551, https://doi.org/10.1057/s41276-024-00463-5.
“The Economic Migrant and the Specter of Permanence in Why Cybraceros?, The Rag Doll Plagues, and Walk on Water.” In The Routledge Handbook of CoFuturisms, edited by Taryne Jade Taylor, Isiah Lavender III, Grace L. Dillon, and Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay, 189-200. New York: Routledge, 2024.
“Visualizing Precarity and Security: Mona Hatoum’s Drowning Sorrows and Guadalupe Maravilla’s Walk on Water.” Refract: An Open Access Visual Studies Journal 4, no. 1 (2021).
“A Beacon of Futurity and a Balm of Security,” Public Books, August 6, 2021.
“The Other Southland: Missions, Monuments, and Memory in Tovaangar.” Boom California, July 26, 2021.
“Latinx Assimilation.” In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History, edited by Jon Butler. New York: Oxford University Press (published February 23, 2021).
“Afrofuturism/Chicanafuturism: Fictive Kin.” Reprinted in Autobiography without Apology: The Personal Essay in Chicanx and Latinx Studies, edited by Chon A. Noriega, Wendy Belcher, and Charlene Villaseñor Black, 47-54. Los Angeles: UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center, 2020.
“Deus ex Machina: Tradition, Technology, and the Chicanafuturist Art of Marion C. Martinez.” Reprinted in Chicano and Chicana Art: A Critical Anthology, edited by Jennifer A. González, C. Ondine Chavoya, Chon Noriega, and Terezita Romo, 146-164. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2019.
“Indians and Negroes in Spite of Themselves: Puerto Rican Students at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School.” In Relational Formations of Race: Theory, Method and Practice, edited by Natalia Molina, Daniel Martinez HoSang, and Ramón A. Gutiérrez, 166-184. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2019.
“Assimilation.” In Keywords for Latino Studies: A Vocabulary of Latina/o Studies, edited by Deborah R. Vargas, Nancy Raquel Mirabal, and Lawrence LaFountain-Stokes, 14-18. New York: New York University Press, 2017.
“The Time Machine: From Afrofuturism, to Chicanafuturism, and Beyond.” Reprinted in Altermundos: Latin@ Speculative Literature, Film, and Popular Culture, edited by Cathryn Merla-Watson and B. V. Olguín, ix-xii. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2017.
“Bad Subjects: H.B. 2281, Chicano Studies, Assimilation.” In (Se)construire dans l’interlangue: perspectives transatlantiques sur le multilinguisme, edited by Françoise Bonnet, Stéphanie Durrans, and Moya Jones, 191-201. Lille, France: Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, 2015.
“The Time Machine: From Afrofuturism, to Chicanafuturism, and Beyond.” Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies 40, no. 2 (2015): 127-130.
“Saying ‘Nothin’’: Pachucas and the Languages of Resistance.” Reprinted in Contingent Maps: Re-thinking Western Women’s History and the North American West, edited by Susan E. Gray and Gayle Gullet, 110-141. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2014.
“Learning and Unlearning from Ethnic Studies.” American Quarterly 66, no. 4 (2014): 1057- 1069.
“Forty.” Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies 35, no. 1 (2010): 195-196.
“Queering the Zoot Suit.” In La igualidad no es una utopía, edited by Isabel Duran Giménez Rico and María Elena Casado Aparicio, 240-245. Madrid, Spain: Universidad Complutense y Thomson Aranzadi, 2008.
“Afrofuturism/Chicanafuturism: Fictive Kin.” Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies 33, no. 1 (2008): 185-194.
“’She Did Not Own Herself Any Longer’: Slavery and the Promise of Humanism in Octavia E. Butler’s Science Fiction.” Mediatijdschrift (Antwerp, Belgium) 178 (2006): 6-15.
“El fantasma en la máquina: El arte chicanafuturista de Marion C. Martínez y la descolonización del futuro.” In Suturas y fragmentos: cuerpos y territorias en la ciencia- ficción, edited by Fundació Antoni Tàpies y la Universidad Internacional de Andalucía, Sevilla, 54-65. Translated by Isaïes Fanlo. Barcelona, Spain: Fundació Antoni Tàpies, 2006.
“Saying ‘Nothin’’: Pachucas and the Languages of Resistance.” Frontiers: Journal of Women Studies 27, no. 3 (2006): 1-33.
“Deus ex Machina: Tradition, Technology, and the Chicanafuturist Art of Marion C. Martinez.” Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies 29, no. 2 (2004): 55-92.
“Alternative Cartographies: Third Woman and the Respatialization of the Borderlands.” Midwestern Miscellany 30 (2004): 47-62.
“Crimes of Fashion: The Pachuca and Chicana Style Politics.” Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism 2, no. 2 (2002): 1-35.
“Cyborg Feminism: The Science Fiction of Octavia E. Butler and Gloria Anzaldúa.” In Reload: Rethinking Women and Cyberculture, edited by Austin Booth and Mary Flanagan, 374-402. Cambridge: The Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 2002.
BLOG POSTS AND OP-EDs
“The 1943 Riot That Spotlights How Drag Show Bans Can Fuel Violence.” The Washington Post, June 15, 2023.
“The U.S. Must Do More to Care for Its Caregivers” (co-authored with Glenn Kramon). The Atlantic, January 24, 2021.
“Essential and Excluded: The Paradox of Assimilation in the United States,” USC Dornsife Equity Research Institute, November 13, 2020.
“For Hispanic Heritage Month–Why We Need to Build Toward a Latinx Future,” UC Press, October 8, 2020.
“What Does Assimilation Mean?” Public Books, February 27, 2020.
“The New Wealth Test for Immigrants is Un-American,” New York Times, February 24, 2020.
“Hagar Court,” University of California, Santa Cruz, Institute of the Arts and Sciences Collective Museum (February 2016).
“Dichos: Tips for MALCSistas Seeking Tenure (Part One),” Latinxs Talk, April 29, 2013.
“From Pig Food to Haute Cuisine,” Latinxs Talk, March 25, 2013.
“Homeland Security,” First Person Singular, KUSP 88.9FM, Santa Cruz, CA, May 15, 2011.
MISCELLANEOUS PUBLICATION
“Yuri Herrera’s The Transmigration of Bodies, translated from the Spanish by Lisa Dillman,” “On Our Nightstands,” Public Books, February 2021.