This graphic memoir traces the Vietnam War and refugee migration through family memory. Prompted by childbirth, the narrator turns toward her parents’ past and renders family history, loss, and immigrant belonging with quiet force.

Lines tracing family silence reveal the years survived as refugees.

This poetry collection layers Filipino American memory, myth, bodily feeling, and family narrative. Moving between monstrosity and prayer, migration and the female body, it creates a voice that is both tender and unsettling.

Between monsters and prayer, migrant memory speaks through the body.

This theoretical study challenges existing accounts of Black masculinity and argues for understanding Black men not simply as power holders but as subjects exposed to violence and vulnerability. It frames Black Male Studies through race, class, and gender.

It reframes debates on Black masculinity through vulnerability rather than domination.

Heaven Is All Goodbyes compresses the carceral state, urban poverty, and Black communal resistance into fractured, musical poems. Political anger and dreamlike association meet in a voice that turns the lives exposed to institutional violence into poetry rather than speech or document.

A collection where the language of resistance joins the rhythms of the street and imagines another order.

Life of the Land gathers Dana Naone Hall’s writings on the relationship between Native Hawaiians and the land. It approaches political action, environmental protection, and cultural continuity through both activist analysis and poetic attention.

Reading the memory of land becomes a way of protecting a community’s future.

City of Inmates traces the making of confinement in Los Angeles through colonization, Indigenous dispossession, immigration control, and the governance of Black and Latinx communities. It shows how urban growth and the politics of human caging were inseparable.

A rereading of Los Angeles history through the long shadow of confinement.

The Changeling is a dark fantasy in which antiquarian bookseller Apollo follows a nightmare of loss involving his wife and child into a folkloric underside of contemporary New York. The fear and love of parenthood, and the violence of the city, rise as a tale of the uncanny.

A fairy tale brings the terror of parents who could not protect a child into the modern city.

Currents is a poetry collection that layers Diné language, bodily labor, and doubt toward American myths and faith. The poems move between the concreteness of construction work and symbolic currents, sounding personal history alongside Indigenous memory.

The texture of work and the flow of myth become the same current in the poems.

Tell Me How It Ends is an essay built around the questionnaire used for children in U.S. immigration court, following the stories of minors who crossed the border. Drawing on the author’s work as an interpreter, it examines the ethics of narration and the cruelty of systems.

Before a system that asks children for an ending, the story refuses to end.

Altermundos is an edited collection crossing Latin@ speculative literature, film, and popular culture. It rereads colonialism, immigration, globalization, race, and gender through speculative imagination.

Thinking other worlds becomes a way to reread the power relations of this one.

This edited volume studies Latinx speculative literature, film, and popular culture. It reframes science fiction and fantasy away from a white, male-centered genre history and examines colonialism, migration, gender, and globalization.

Critical visions of other worlds open contemporary Latinx cultural expression.

This history of early Detroit examines slavery and freedom through Native, African-descended, laboring, and captive lives. It uncovers the often obscured presence of slavery in a northern city.

The city’s dawn begins with the labor of people caught between freedom and bondage.

This book-length poem follows Teebs, a young queer Indigenous poet who resists writing a nature poem. It pushes back against easy associations between Indigeneity and nature while leaping through urban life, desire, and colonial memory.

Refusing to write nature exposes the prejudice made to seem natural.

This poetry collection moves through nature, body, love, and the pressure of gender. Its musical surface holds responses to patriarchy and worldly unease, combining pain with fluidity.

Beneath a gentle music, the poems sound against the world’s imbalance.

This debut poetry collection centers Josefo, a Chicano adolescent, and mixes boxing, working-class California, family voices, and literary reference. Poems, dialogue, and prose collide to portray the pain and comedy of performing the self.

In the rhythm of fists, labor, family, and language exchange blows.

This philosophical essay links animal liberation with disability liberation and questions the boundaries among human, animal, dependence, and autonomy. It combines lived experience, ethics, and theory to explore care and solidarity.

It treats vulnerability not as separation, but as a shared condition.

This art-history study examines how Black artists in Los Angeles built creative communities and exhibition spaces amid structural racism. It links migration, urban policy, and the Black arts movement.

From south of Pico, the map of Los Angeles art history is redrawn.

Heroes Are Gang Leaders is an ensemble that joins poetry, jazz, and improvisation, honored in 2018 as oral literature. Beginning as a response to Amiri Baraka, the group develops race, politics, the body, and communal memory in a field of sound and speech.

It was honored not as a book, but as oral literature where voice and performance arise together.