https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/905 Project MUSE®: Latest articles in Journal of Latino-Latin American Studies (JOLLAS). daily 1 2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00 text/html en-US Vol. 13 (2024) through current issue Latest Articles: Journal of Latino-Latin American Studies (JOLLAS) TWO Project MUSE® Journal of Latino-Latin American Studies (JOLLAS) 3070-4111 1549-9502 Latest articles in Journal of Latino-Latin American Studies (JOLLAS). Feed provided by Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/article/988478 <p></p> Grit, defined by Duckworth et al. (2007) as perseverance and passion for long-term goals, has been linked to success across education, career, well-being, and social mobility. Individuals high in grit tend to persist through setbacks and sustain long-term ambitions. Because grit is considered malleable, it has been the focus of interventions designed to promote resilience and motivation, especially among marginalized groups (Buzzetto-Hollywood &#x26; Mitchell, 2019; Whitfield &#x26; Wilby, 2021).Despite widespread study, current grit measures, Duckworth&#39;s Grit-O (2007) and Grit-S (2009) reflect a Western, individualistic worldview and often fail to capture the cultural realities of Hispanic populations. For many in these ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/988483">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/905/image/coversmall Initial Development and Validation of GANAS: A Grit Scale for the Hispanic Population 2026-04-24 text/html en-US Initial Development and Validation of GANAS: A Grit Scale for the Hispanic Population 2026-04-24 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 125296 2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00 2026-04-24 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/988479 <p></p> This article examines how Mexican newspapers represented immigration to the United States during Donald Trump&#39;s first presidency (2017&#x2013;2021) and campaign period, and how socio-political developments shaped these portrayals. Specifically, it investigates the attitudinal patterns embedded in press discourses on immigration and immigrants from Mexico to the United States.Drawing on framing theory, this study assumes that media outlets do not merely report events but actively structure them through interpretive frames that foreground particular perspectives. The theoretical premise guiding the analysis is that newspapers may frame immigration differently depending on the stance they implicitly or explicitly adopt ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/988483">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/905/image/coversmall Representations of Immigrants to the United States in the Mexican Press during the First Trump Administration 2026-04-24 text/html en-US Representations of Immigrants to the United States in the Mexican Press during the First Trump Administration 2026-04-24 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 88040 2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00 2026-04-24 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/988480 <p></p> We have some bad hombres. Donald Trump, Third United States Presidential Debate, 2016.No, we feel like New Yorkers. We really do, too. My family has lived in Brooklyn and Queens a combined ninety-seven years. Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, The Undocumented Americans, 2020.While Donald Trump&#39;s rhetoric of difference casts undocumented immigrants as dangerous outsiders, in her book The Undocumented Americans (2020), Karla Cornejo Villavicencio asserts that a deep, lived connection to a place opposes notions of belonging as dictated by one&#39;s immigration status alone. In the text, Cornejo Villavicencio counters intolerant and xenophobic rhetoric regarding undocumented people by providing content from interviews with ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/988483">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/905/image/coversmall Petit Récits of Belonging: Reading Karla Cornejo Villavicencio's The Undocumented Americans as Counter-Narratives to Dominant Discourse about Citizenship in the United States 2026-04-24 text/html en-US Petit Récits of Belonging: Reading Karla Cornejo Villavicencio's The Undocumented Americans as Counter-Narratives to Dominant Discourse about Citizenship in the United States 2026-04-24 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 89792 2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00 2026-04-24 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/988481 <p></p> Growing anti-immigrant sentiment in the U.S. has driven punitive and exclusionary policies targeting undocumented people and Latinx communities. Recent events, like immigration sweeps resulting in 2,000 arrests in two days (Campbell et al. 2025), U.S. Senate bill 72 proposing bounties on undocumented immigrants (Keller 2025; United States Senate, State of Missouri 2025), and calls for Department of Corrections staff to disclose the immigration status of incarcerated people (Ackerman 2025), illustrate the rising criminalization of immigration status.The normalization of aggressive enforcement has deepened systemic inequities and reinforced harmful narratives that conflate Latinxs with criminality, further alienating ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/988483">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/905/image/coversmall Borders, Bars, and Bias: Using Latcrit to Analyze the Impact of Mandatory Minimum Sentencing Laws on Undocumented Latinx Men 2026-04-24 text/html en-US Borders, Bars, and Bias: Using Latcrit to Analyze the Impact of Mandatory Minimum Sentencing Laws on Undocumented Latinx Men 2026-04-24 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 148762 2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00 2026-04-24 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/988482 <p></p> Religion and ethnicity among the Mexican immigrants in the United States are intertwined through the cultural identities and traditions brought from their homeland. In this context, Deborah E. Kanter&#39;s Pioneers of Latino Ministry constitutes a significant contribution to the study of Latin American Catholicism in the United States, offering critical insights into the Claretians, their religious mission, and social work within the Latino communities.In Pioneers of Latino Ministry, Kanter enhances our historical understanding of Catholicism in the United States by highlighting the experiences of Mexicans in Southwestern communities; experiences that until recently Catholic scholars had marginalized in broader Church ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/988483">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/905/image/coversmall Pioneers of Latino Ministry. Claretians and the Evolving World of Catholic America by Deborah E. Kanter (review) 2026-04-24 text/html en-US Pioneers of Latino Ministry. Claretians and the Evolving World of Catholic America by Deborah E. Kanter (review) 2026-04-24 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 16334 2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00 2026-04-24 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/988483 <p></p> Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera&#39;s Decolonizing American Spanish (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2022) is an ambitious and provocative critique of the structure, curriculum, and epistemic foundations of Spanish studies in the United States. Drawing on decolonial theory, cultural studies, psychology, and literary analysis, the book argues that Spanish programs in the U.S. remain overwhelmingly Eurocentric, reproducing Peninsular-centered approaches that erase the linguistic and cultural realities of Spanish-speaking communities living in the United States. As a scholar of heritage language (HL) pedagogy, I find Herlihy-Mera&#39;s critique timely, particularly in its insistence that Spanish programs must serve the communities they ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/988483">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/905/image/coversmall Decolonizing American Spanish by Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera (review) 2026-04-24 text/html en-US Decolonizing American Spanish by Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera (review) 2026-04-24 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 11082 2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00 2026-04-24