Mae Ngai was quoted in The Huffington Post on the cruelty shown by the Trump Administration in its attacks on immigrant communities. Read the full article here.

The International Labor History Association honors Professor Lori Flores for her work, Awaiting Their Feast: Latinx Food Workers and Activism from World War II to COVID-19 (University of North Carolina Press) with its Book-of-the-Year Award for the best book of working-class history for 2024. In this work, Flores has written a creatively conceptualized, rigorously researched, and broadly accessible study, tracing the growing national attraction to Latinx foodways and a notable, if fluctuating, demand for exploited immigrant labor in the United States since 1941. Read more about the award here.

James Stafford published an article in the London Review of Books on Trump’s recent tariff announcements and the issues they pose for the international market, as well as the broader history of tariffs in the modern economic world. Read the full article here.