Professor Aldama’s work is focused on Latinx cultural, literary, filmic and music studies with a focus on transnational border issues. His most recent book Decolonizing Latinx Masculinities was published by University of Arizona Press in October 2020 and was awarded a prize by Empowering Latino Futures, Fall 2021. Two annotated bibliographies with Oxford University Press: one on race and violence, the other on hemispheric inidgeneities were published in September 2020. Professor Aldama next book length project is to work on carcerality, toxic masculinities and state violence on the US Mexico border during Trump's reign of terror on indigenous children and families seeking amnesty. The book is scheduled for release February 2024 and it was co-edited with a colleague in DES, Dr. Jessica Ordaz.
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US and Mexico border studies, cultural, music and film studies, immigration, criminalization, autobiography, Latinx and Latin American film, gender studies and performance studies, School to prison pipeline, indigenous studies, critical theory, gender studies, decolonial studies, us-mexico border studies
