I have always been conflicted about the term “Chicano/a.” On the one hand, I believe in la causa that defined el movimiento of the 1960s and early 70s. The injustices that young Chicanos/as fought […]

CALL FOR PAPERS Philosophical Reflections on “Chicano/a”, “Mexican-American”, “Latinx” Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies Description: In the interest of developing an inclusive and interdisciplinary dialogue about naming identities, we […]

If our contract made the project official, something about this makes it real. It feels like ages ago that we began, but we signed the contract only two years ago. […]

So I’m proofreading the final proofs of our anthology before it goes off to press and I got caught up re-reading Romano Muñoz’s “Neither Irrationalism nor Rationalism but Critical Philosophy.” […]

For our inaugural SMAP meeting last week, I wrote a short paper on Vasconcelos’s La raza cósmica. Basically, I wanted to know why we continue to read the text despite its many flaws […]

We read the last few lines of El Plan de Ayala: “no somos personalistas, somos partidarios de los principios y no de los hombres.” Here, more than anywhere else, we […]

So, it’s the busiest time of the year for academics, or at least it feels like it, but I couldn’t imagine a better way to wind down the academic year […]