Latino Studies is a new international, peer-reviewed journal. It will be published three times a year, with the first issue appearing in March 2003.Its principal aim is to advance interdisciplinary scholarship about the lived experience and struggles of Latinas and Latinos for equity, representation, and social justice. Sustaining the tradition of activist scholarship of the founders of Chicana and Chicano Studies and Puerto Rican Studies, we engage critically the study of the local, national, transnational, and hemispheric realities that continue to influence the Latina and Latino presence in the United States. The journal is committed to developing a new transnational research agenda that bridges the academic and non-academic worlds and fosters mutual learning and collaboration among all the Latino national groups.

Latino Studies Call for Papers
Editor: Suzanne Oboler, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Latino Studies provides an intellectual forum for innovative explorations and theorization. We welcome submissions of original research articles of up to 8,000 words, from scholars and practitioners in the national and international research communities.

In addition to scholarly articles, we also invite submissions of ‘reports from the field ’. These short essays (between 750- 1500 words) should describe and analyses significant local issues, struggles and debates affecting the lives of Latinos and Latinas in different regions of the country. In publishing the ‘reports ’our aim is to record and inform our readers about events that are sometimes over-looked by the national and regional media.

There will be an extensive book and media reviews section, which will be devoted to scholarship on the experience of Latinas and Latinos in the United States. Finally, we invite essays of up to 3500 words that address issues of pedagogy and curriculum. This section will appear once a year and will contribute toward the development and institutionalization of our field in the academy.

Along these lines, we also welcome submissions of short documents (roughly 1000 words) for the journal’s ‘páginas recuperadas ’ section. These ‘recovered pages ’ aim to make visible, historically significant achievements by individuals, and pivotal events in the experience of Latinas and Latinos in the United States.

Please address your submissions to the address below.

For complete instructions for submissions, contact us at: latstu@uic.edu or at either of the addresses shown overleaf.

Editorial Structure
Editor: Suzanne Oboler, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Associate Editor: Pedro A.C abán, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA Consulting Editors: Frances Aparicio, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Stanley Fish, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Managing Editor: Aaron Van Klyton, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA

EDITORIAL BOARD
Antonia Darder, Claremont Graduate University, USA Alyssa García (Graduate Student Representative), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Luis Eduardo Guarnizo, University of California, Davis, USA Elena R. Gutiérrez, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Tanya Katerí Hernández, Rutgers University School of Law, USA Félix Masud-Piloto, DePaul University, USA Norma Mendoza-Denton, University of Arizona, USA Emma Pérez, University of Texas, USA

ADVISORY BOARD
Lourdes Arguelles, Claremont Graduate University, USA Norma E. Cantú, University of Texas, San Antonio, USA Leo R.Chávez, University of California, Irvine, USA Jorge Duany, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico Anani Dzidzienyo, Brown University, USA Alicia Gaspar de Alba, University of California, Los Angeles, USA Roberto Márquez (Editor: Páginas Recuperadas ),Mt.Holyoke College,USA Cecilia Menjívar, Arizona State University, USA Devon G. Peña , University of Washington, Seattle, USA Vilma Santiago-Irizarry (Editor: Book and Media Reviews), Cornell University, USA Silvio Torres-Saillant, Syracuse University, USA María de los Angeles Torres, DePaul University, USA Ana Celia Zentella, University of California, San Diego, USA Marc Zimmerman, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA

INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD

Maria Jesús Buxó i Rey, Universidad de Barcelona,Spain Ernesto Rodríguez Chávez, CEA, Cuba and CISAN/UNAM, Mexico Ninna N. Sørensen, Center for Development Research, Copenhagen, Denmark (Further members of this Board will be announced shortly)