Books
"Family Separation and Detention: A Rant" and Other Selected Poems, Latinx Spaces, August 7, 2018.
“That’s Just Like Here, at Our College’: Tracking Latina/o Inequality from High School Programs to Honors Colleges,” New Directions: Assessment and Preparation of Hispanic College Students, co-edited by A. G. de los Santos, G. F. Keller, R. Tannenbaum, and A. Acerada. Bilingual Press Hispanic Research Center, Arizona State University, 2018, pp. 123-139.
Uprooting Valhalla & Religious Transformations
Academic Profiling
In Academic Profiling, Gilda L. Ochoa addresses today’s so-called achievement gap by going directly to the source. At one California public high school where the controversy is lived every day, Ochoa turns to the students, teachers, and parents to learn about the very real disparities—in opportunity, status, treatment, and assumptions—that lead to more than just gaps in achievement.
Learning from Latino Teachers
This compelling book is based on Gilda Ochoa’s in-depth interviews with Latina/o teachers who have a range of teaching experience, in schools with significant Latina/o immigrant populations. The book offers a unique insider's perspective on the educational challenges facing Latina/os. The teachers’ stories offer valuable insights gained from their experiences coming up through the K-12 system as students, and then becoming part of the same system as teachers.
Latino LA
As the twenty-first century begins, Latinas/os represent 45 percent of the residents of Los Angeles County, making them the largest racial/ethnic group in the region. This volume roots Los Angeles in the larger arena of globalization, exploring the demographic changes that have transformed the Latino presence in LA from primarily Mexican-origin to one that now includes peoples from throughout the hemisphere. Bringing together scholars from a range of disciplines, it combines historical perspectives with analyses of power and inequality to consider how Latinas/os are responding to exclusionary immigration, labor, and schooling practices and actively creating communities. The contributors examine Latina/o Los Angeles in the context of historical, economic and social factors that have shaped the region. Latino Los Angeles is an important work that contributes to contemporary scholarship on transnationalism as it reexamines the changing face of America’s largest western metropolis.
Diálogo
Over the past twenty years, there has been tremendous growth in literature on contemporary Latina/o migration. That scholarship has been important for highlighting undocumented students’ experiences, detailing struggles for immigration rights, and complicating theories of immigration. However, significant issues and theoretical frameworks are often elided by both the organizing priorities of mass movements and by traditional discipline-specific scholarship. Research on immigration follows the dominant narrative and rarely creates alternative visions or possibilities. The topics and theories often marginalized are at the heart of a critical examination of the western hemispheric movement of peoples across borders and labor markets. These issues and perspectives often blur the borderline with a host of intersectional conditions, bodies and identities. Such is the case of Queer and LGBT and the undocumented crossings of Indigenous and Black Diasporas