Introducing a new series to push forward our thinking and action about immigration and borders.
Catherine S. Ramírez
Catherine S. Ramírez, Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, is a scholar of migration, race, gender, Mexican American history, Latinx literature and visual culture, and speculative fiction. She is the author of Assimilation: An Alternative History (University of California Press, 2020) and The Woman in the Zoot Suit: Gender, Nationalism, and the Cultural Politics of Memory (Duke University Press, 2009). 
What Does Assimilation Mean?
When Samuel P. Huntington first published “The Hispanic Challenge,” in Foreign Policy in 2004, I was an assistant professor of American studies ...