Latina/o Communication Studies

Beyond the Binary: A Meaning Based Approach to Spanish Language Advertising

This project breaks from traditional assumptions that presume two distinct advertising audiences: a Hispanic audience, which consumes primarily Spanish language media, and a general...

The Young Lords, the Radical Democratic Imaginary, and Intersectional Rhetorics

This essay addresses the question, What can radical democracy become? Using case studies of the Young Lords' radical rhetoric, I assemble a conceptualization of radical democracy...

Genres of Governance: The Mexican National Development Plan and the Reconceptualization of Mexican Sovereignty

This essay engages a generic criticism of the 1989 Mexican National Development Plan (NDP) to argue that the reinvention of the concept of national sovereignty in late-twentieth century...