Portland State University's Chicano/Latino Studies program is dedicated to helping students understand multicultural society and in particular the Chicano/Latino community within a larger social context. Chicano/Latino Studies is the interdisciplinary study of social, cultural, political, economic, and historical forces that have shaped the development of the people of Mexico and other Latin American countries in the United States over the last 300 years.
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Submissions from 2023

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“Back to Basics:” Converging Mattering, Dialogue, and Love within Pedagogy, Research, and Community-Engaged Work, Camilla Bell, Martín Alberto Gonzalez, and Terrence Burgess

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How Latino Anti-Blackness Upholds Racism In The United States: A Counterstory Book Review Of Tanya Katerí Hernández’s Racial Innocence, Martín Alberto Gonzalez

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"It Snows Year-Round Here": A Counterstory about Mexican/Mexican American/Xicanx Students’ Experiences with Racism at a Predominantly White University in the Northeast, Martín Alberto Gonzalez

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“Let Knowledge Serve the City” *Restrictions Apply, Martín Alberto Gonzalez

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Review of the book Racial Innocence: Unmasking Latino Anti-Black Bias and the Struggle for Equality, by T. K. Hernández, Martín Alberto Gonzalez

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“Universities ain’t what they seem like on TV” A Critical Race Counterstory as a Literature Review about Students of Color in Higher Education, Martín Alberto Gonzalez

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“Why You Always So Political?”: A Counterstory About Educational-Environmental Racism at a Predominantly White University, Martín Alberto Gonzalez

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Why you always so political?: The Experiences and Resiliencies of Mexican/Mexican American/Xicanx Students in Higher Education, Martín Alberto Gonzalez

Submissions from 2022

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Becoming an HSI as Process, Oscar Fernandez, Gina Ann Garcia, Carrie Vasquez, Joe Rivera Soto, and Martín Alberto Gonzalez

Brown is Beautiful: Cultural Empowerment in Oxnard Schools, Martín Alberto Gonzalez

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HorCHATa: A Counterstory about a Mexican-based Student Organization as a Counter-space at a Predominantly White University, Martín Alberto Gonzalez

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The Right to the University: The Experiences of Mexican/Mexican American/Xicanx Students at a Predominantly White University in Upstate New York, Martín Alberto Gonzalez

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When the Lion Learns to Write: a Counterstory About a Doctoral Student's Qualitative Research Project, Martín Alberto Gonzalez

Submissions from 2021

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Cost of Oregon Evictions Report, Lisa Bates, Marisa Zapata, Jacen Greene, and Stefanie Knowlton

Book Review of, We Got This: Equity, Access, and the Quest to Be Who Our Students Need Us to Be, Martín Alberto Gonzalez

Submissions from 2020

Editor's Preface to Special Issue on "Gender and Intimacy Across the Us-Mexico Borderlands", Marc S. Rodriguez

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Voices on Immigration, Alexander Sager, Marc Rodriguez, Melissa Patiño-Vega, Eddy Alvarez, and Harry Anastasiou

Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Mathematics Instruction for English Learners in Multitiered Support Systems: PLUSS Enhancements, Amanda K. Sanford, Christopher J. Pinkney, Julie Esparza Brown, Cameron E. Elliott, Emily M. Rotert, and Samuel Sennott

Detained Settlements: the Infrastructures and Temporalities of Digital Financial Transactions Between the United States and Cuba, Mrinalini Tankha

Mapping the Intermediate: Lived Technologies of Money and Value, Mrinalini Tankha and Ursula Dalinghaus

Sojourners of Truth: Five Women's Stories of Triumph, Tribulation, and Teaching in Academia, Patricia A. Young, Carolina Serna, Esperanza De La Vega, Leslie R. Charlton, and Myriam Casimir

Submissions from 2019

Everyday Resistance Strategies by Minoritized Faculty, Javier Casado Perez

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FUSE: People with Frequent Utilization of Public Services in Clackamas County, Oregon: Potential Service Enhancements, Karen Cellarius, Marisa Zapata, Eric Einspruch, Cameron Mulder, Thuan Duong, and Aliza Tuttle

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Student Movements in the United States and Mexico: A Testimony, Roberto M. De Anda

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Boxnard: Counterstories as Counterpunches, Martín Alberto Gonzalez

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Oxnard: 15 Miles of Beautiful Brown People, Martín Alberto Gonzalez

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Governance, Costs, and Revenue Raising to Address and Prevent Homelessness in the Portland Tri-County Region, Marisa Zapata, Jenny H. Liu, Lauren Elizabeth Morrow Everett, Peter Hulseman, Thomas Potiowsky, and Emma Willingham

Submissions from 2018

Telling of Institutional Oppression: Voices of Minoritized Counselor Educators, Javier F. Casado Perez and JoLynn V. Carney

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Episode 1: Martín Alberto Gonzalez, Martín Alberto Gonzalez

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Curator Talk: Hector Hernandez - November 2, 2018, Portland Art Museum, Curator, Dia de Muertos (Day of the Dead), Hector Hernandez

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Fictions of Human Development: Renaissance Cognitive Philosophy and the Romance, Isabel Jaén Portillo

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Strategic Planning to Advance Equity on Campus: A Case Study at Portland State University, Marisa Zapata, Stephen L. Percy, and Sona K. Andrews

Submissions from 2017

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Reading Latinx and LGBTQ+ Perspectives: Maya Christina Gonzalez and Equity Minded Models at Play, Elena Avilés

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The Trials of Displacement: Transnationalism and Interdisciplinary Feminisms in Demetria Martínez’s The Block Captain’s Daughter, Elena Avilés

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21 Millas de Vista Maravillosa... y Luego Oxnard: Contrahistorias y Testimonios [21 Miles of Scenic Beauty ... and Then Oxnard: Counterstories and Testimonies], Martín Alberto Gonzalez

Wasting Talent: Using Counter-Storytelling to Narrate Dismal Educational Outcomes, Martín Alberto Gonzalez

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Artist Talk: Hector Hernandez - September 14, 2017, Portland Art Museum, Hector Hernandez

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Woodburn's New Mural Showcases City's Diversity And History, Hector Hernandez and Bradley W. Parks

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Fascism, Torture, and Affect in Postwar Spain: Memoria Histórica Narratives and Audience Empathy, Isabel Jaén Portillo

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Leyendas y Arquetipos del Romanticismo Español, Segunda Edición, Robert Sanders

Submissions from 2016

Alfredo Reyes López: A Bracero Narrative Nearly 100 Years in the Making, Elena Avilés

Heterotopia: Re-imagined Communities and Barrios Borderlands, Elena Avilés

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José María Arguedas, Etnógrafo: Campo Cultural Y Mestizaje, Enrique E. Cortez

Review of Making Aztlán: Ideology and Culture of the Chicana and Chicano Movement, 1966-1977, Roberto M. De Anda

Book Review of, No Undocumented Child Left Behind: Plyler v. Doe and the Education of Undocumented Schoolchildren, Martín Alberto Gonzalez

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Art for Everyone, Laura Mack, Hector Hernandez, and Chemeketa Art Faculty

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Political Polarization and Nisman’s Death: Competing Conspiracy Theories in Argentina, Leopoldo Rodriguez and Shawn Smallman

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Clatsop County Latinos: A Demographic and Economic Profile, Marisa Zapata and Amanda Hudson

Submissions from 2014

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Empathy and Gender Activism in Early Modern Spain: María de Zayas's Amorous and Exemplary Novels, Isabel Jaén Portillo

Submissions from 2013

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Trans-Americanity: Subaltern Modernities, Global Coloniality, and the Cultures of Greater Mexico, by José David Saldívar, Elena Avilés

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Proyecto Interconexiones: A Pilot Test of a Community-Based Depression Care Program for Latina Violence Survivors, Christina Nicolaidis, Angie Mejia, Marlen Perez, Anabertha Alvarado, Rosemary Celaya-Alston, Yolanda Quintero, and Raquel Aguillon

Submissions from 2012

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Beyond Race Cards in America's Pastime: An Appreciative Reply to Findlay and Santos, Robert Muñoz