Geraldo Cadava
@geraldo-cadava.bsky.social
Professor at Northwestern University. Contributing Writer at The New Yorker. Editor at Public Books. Host of Writing Latinos. University of Arizona basketball fan.
ICE policy: “Unless ICE is effectuating an enforcement action against the minor child(ren), ICE personnel should not, under any circumstances, take custody of or transport the minor child(ren).” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...
Immigration Agents Arrest Man in L.A. Raid and Drive Off With His Toddler
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November 8, 2025 at 2:18 AM
ICE policy: “Unless ICE is effectuating an enforcement action against the minor child(ren), ICE personnel should not, under any circumstances, take custody of or transport the minor child(ren).” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...
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Federal agents have violently arrested hundreds of undocumented immigrants in Chicago. @geraldo-cadava.bsky.social talks to pastors, activists, and lawyers about what’s really going on in the city and what their response should be. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
The Conflict on the Streets of Chicago
Federal agents have violently arrested hundreds of undocumented immigrants in the city. Pastors, activists, and lawyers are considering how aggressive the response should be.
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October 27, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Federal agents have violently arrested hundreds of undocumented immigrants in Chicago. @geraldo-cadava.bsky.social talks to pastors, activists, and lawyers about what’s really going on in the city and what their response should be. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
Thanks @kathleenbelew.bsky.social! Yes, please go read piece if you wanna know what's happening in this great city where the tension has ramped up because of the federal presence.
@geraldo-cadava.bsky.social with an amazing piece on what it's like to be in Chicago in the age of ICE www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
The Conflict on the Streets of Chicago
Federal agents have violently arrested hundreds of undocumented immigrants in the city. Pastors, activists, and lawyers are considering how aggressive the response should be.
www.newyorker.com
October 17, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Thanks @kathleenbelew.bsky.social! Yes, please go read piece if you wanna know what's happening in this great city where the tension has ramped up because of the federal presence.
Here's historian David Blight talking about Trump's war on history, and some historian in Trump's orbit I've never heard of. Blight challenges him to a debate. He curated the project that my piece was a part of, and he wrote the introductory essay. Here's the clip:
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Yale history professor torches Trump's 'political war' on American history
MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell is joined by Pulitzer Prize-winning author, historian, and Yale University professor David Blight who is calling out Donald Trump's attacks on the facts of U.S. history and ...
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August 8, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Here's historian David Blight talking about Trump's war on history, and some historian in Trump's orbit I've never heard of. Blight challenges him to a debate. He curated the project that my piece was a part of, and he wrote the introductory essay. Here's the clip:
www.msnbc.com/the-last-wor...
www.msnbc.com/the-last-wor...
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Don't miss @thenewrepublic.bsky.social's new series on Trump's attack on history curated by @dblight.bsky.social. Four pieces dropped online today (by @dblight.bsky.social,
@geraldo-cadava.bsky.social, Leslie M. Harris & yours truly); more coming soon. newrepublic.com/series/67/tr...
@geraldo-cadava.bsky.social, Leslie M. Harris & yours truly); more coming soon. newrepublic.com/series/67/tr...
Trump Against History
How is Trump changing our sense of who we are? We asked eminent Yale historian David W. Blight to round up some colleagues to consider the question. Here’s what they had to say.
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August 7, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Don't miss @thenewrepublic.bsky.social's new series on Trump's attack on history curated by @dblight.bsky.social. Four pieces dropped online today (by @dblight.bsky.social,
@geraldo-cadava.bsky.social, Leslie M. Harris & yours truly); more coming soon. newrepublic.com/series/67/tr...
@geraldo-cadava.bsky.social, Leslie M. Harris & yours truly); more coming soon. newrepublic.com/series/67/tr...
It was fun for me to write this essay as part of a project with so many historians I admire, about what it means to teach history in the second Trump administration.
newrepublic.com/article/1983...
newrepublic.com/article/1983...
The Diversity Bell That Trump Can’t Un-ring
The biggest problem with the history Trump wants to impose on us is that it never, in fact, existed.
newrepublic.com
August 7, 2025 at 3:11 PM
It was fun for me to write this essay as part of a project with so many historians I admire, about what it means to teach history in the second Trump administration.
newrepublic.com/article/1983...
newrepublic.com/article/1983...
Can't wait for this!
www.chicagohistory.org/exhibition/a...
www.chicagohistory.org/exhibition/a...
Aquí en Chicago - English - Chicago History Museum
Aquí en Chicago traces the lives of Latino/a/e communities that have maintained a persistent cultural presence and flourished in Chicago.
www.chicagohistory.org
July 30, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Can't wait for this!
www.chicagohistory.org/exhibition/a...
www.chicagohistory.org/exhibition/a...
Carlos González Gutiérrez, the Consul General of Mexico in L.A., is fighting for Mexican Los Angeles. "When you are here, if you are a Mexican national, you realize that you belong, that, to a great extent, this is a Mexican city." Thank you for reading.
www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
The Fight for Mexican Los Angeles
The city’s Mexican consul is trying to protect local immigrants, but there are limits to what he can accomplish.
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July 23, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Carlos González Gutiérrez, the Consul General of Mexico in L.A., is fighting for Mexican Los Angeles. "When you are here, if you are a Mexican national, you realize that you belong, that, to a great extent, this is a Mexican city." Thank you for reading.
www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
Check out this BBC News segment with Erica Lubliner and Dana Rusch, about the work they do with their Latino and immigrant patients. Starts at minute 27. They’re badass. I wrote about them in my recent @newyorker.com piece.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Weekend - Air India crash report points to pilot confusion in cockpit - BBC Sounds
An air India plane crash killed 260 people with only one sole survivor last month
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July 13, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Check out this BBC News segment with Erica Lubliner and Dana Rusch, about the work they do with their Latino and immigrant patients. Starts at minute 27. They’re badass. I wrote about them in my recent @newyorker.com piece.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Erica Lubliner, who directs a clinic that offers mental-health services to Latinos at UCLA: “ICE is going after the gardener with his truck, the workers at the car wash. The idea that they are somehow dangerous cuts at their identity in a deep way…They feel unwanted. They feel targeted.”
I've been talking with therapists who treat immigrant patients. They've observed a level of terror they haven't seen before--this moment is "humanistically different," one told me. But they're also trying new treatments and seeing incredible resilience.
www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
What Therapists Treating Immigrants Hear
Some mental-health-care providers are trying new approaches to treat patients whose worst fears have come true.
www.newyorker.com
July 9, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Erica Lubliner, who directs a clinic that offers mental-health services to Latinos at UCLA: “ICE is going after the gardener with his truck, the workers at the car wash. The idea that they are somehow dangerous cuts at their identity in a deep way…They feel unwanted. They feel targeted.”
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Heartbreaking. It's so immoral to be traumatizing and retraumatizing whole communities like this.
I've been talking with therapists who treat immigrant patients. They've observed a level of terror they haven't seen before--this moment is "humanistically different," one told me. But they're also trying new treatments and seeing incredible resilience.
www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
What Therapists Treating Immigrants Hear
Some mental-health-care providers are trying new approaches to treat patients whose worst fears have come true.
www.newyorker.com
July 9, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Heartbreaking. It's so immoral to be traumatizing and retraumatizing whole communities like this.
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Insight to the stress, psychological harm and wellbeing in immigrant communities caused by discrimination, ICE raids, and anti-immigrant rhetoric.
TY for the important reporting @geraldo-cadava.bsky.social.
TY for the important reporting @geraldo-cadava.bsky.social.
I've been talking with therapists who treat immigrant patients. They've observed a level of terror they haven't seen before--this moment is "humanistically different," one told me. But they're also trying new treatments and seeing incredible resilience.
www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
What Therapists Treating Immigrants Hear
Some mental-health-care providers are trying new approaches to treat patients whose worst fears have come true.
www.newyorker.com
July 9, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Insight to the stress, psychological harm and wellbeing in immigrant communities caused by discrimination, ICE raids, and anti-immigrant rhetoric.
TY for the important reporting @geraldo-cadava.bsky.social.
TY for the important reporting @geraldo-cadava.bsky.social.
I've been talking with therapists who treat immigrant patients. They've observed a level of terror they haven't seen before--this moment is "humanistically different," one told me. But they're also trying new treatments and seeing incredible resilience.
www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
What Therapists Treating Immigrants Hear
Some mental-health-care providers are trying new approaches to treat patients whose worst fears have come true.
www.newyorker.com
July 1, 2025 at 11:45 AM
I've been talking with therapists who treat immigrant patients. They've observed a level of terror they haven't seen before--this moment is "humanistically different," one told me. But they're also trying new treatments and seeing incredible resilience.
www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
Such an honor to talk with Al Camarillo about his memoir, "Compton In My Soul: A Life In Pursuit of Racial Equality," published by @stanfordpress. This is the final episode of season three of Writing Latinos. Thanks for tuning in, more to come next spring.
www.publicbooks.org/albert-camar...
www.publicbooks.org/albert-camar...
Albert Camarillo on “Compton in My Soul: A Life in Pursuit of Racial Equality” - Public Books
Albert Camarillo is the Leon Sloss Jr. Memorial Professor, Emeritus, at Stanford University. He’s one of a small number of people who founded the academic
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June 25, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Such an honor to talk with Al Camarillo about his memoir, "Compton In My Soul: A Life In Pursuit of Racial Equality," published by @stanfordpress. This is the final episode of season three of Writing Latinos. Thanks for tuning in, more to come next spring.
www.publicbooks.org/albert-camar...
www.publicbooks.org/albert-camar...
🚨New Writing Latinos Episode!🚨 One of my faves. We talk with @jmelendezbadillo.bsky.social about his book, Puerto Rico: A National History, plus his collaboration with Bad Bunny!
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Jorell Meléndez-Badillo on “Puerto Rico: A National History” - Public Books
“Part of what the book is trying to do is to challenge this notion of Puerto Rican docility.”
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May 28, 2025 at 6:07 PM
🚨New Writing Latinos Episode!🚨 One of my faves. We talk with @jmelendezbadillo.bsky.social about his book, Puerto Rico: A National History, plus his collaboration with Bad Bunny!
www.publicbooks.org/jorell-melen...
www.publicbooks.org/jorell-melen...
In Chicago, we're having a moment with Pope Leo XIV. But will it amount to more than that--a renewal of the church here? This was a fun one for me.
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In Chicago, Will the Pope Bump Last?
A historically Catholic American city considers the election of Leo XIV, a home-town Pontiff.
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May 22, 2025 at 10:45 AM
In Chicago, we're having a moment with Pope Leo XIV. But will it amount to more than that--a renewal of the church here? This was a fun one for me.
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
The new episode of Writing Latinos, featuring Justin Torres, is one of my favorites. We tried something I'd wanted to do for a long time: read a short piece together and discuss. The Afro-Puerto Rican writer Jesús Colón's vignette, "Youth: The Palisades as a Backdrop" was perfect. Check it out!
In a new episode of “Writing Latinos,” @geraldo-cadava.bsky.social chats with novelist Justin Torres, author of “We the Animals” (@marinerbooks.bsky.social) and “Blackouts” (@fsgbooks.bsky.social), about Jesús Colón’s “Youth: The Palisades as a Backdrop.”
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www.publicbooks.org/justin-torre...
May 15, 2025 at 1:58 PM
The new episode of Writing Latinos, featuring Justin Torres, is one of my favorites. We tried something I'd wanted to do for a long time: read a short piece together and discuss. The Afro-Puerto Rican writer Jesús Colón's vignette, "Youth: The Palisades as a Backdrop" was perfect. Check it out!
I'm really looking forward to this event in New York on Monday night--May 12--at New York Historical. Here's more information, and I would love to see you, friends!
www.nyhistory.org/programs/the...
www.nyhistory.org/programs/the...
The Hispanic Republican: The Shaping of an American Political Identity, from Nixon to Trump | The New York Historical
Learn about the history and development of the Hispanic Republican voting base and the significant role they play in American politics.
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May 9, 2025 at 10:32 PM
I'm really looking forward to this event in New York on Monday night--May 12--at New York Historical. Here's more information, and I would love to see you, friends!
www.nyhistory.org/programs/the...
www.nyhistory.org/programs/the...
Chicago friends! TONIGHT: talking with
@michaelluo.bsky.social about his stunning book, "Strangers in the Land." It's a beautiful and moving narrative history of Chinese migrants and Chinese Americans. At Harold Washington Library Center. Here's more:
chipublib.bibliocommons.com/events/6761b....
@michaelluo.bsky.social about his stunning book, "Strangers in the Land." It's a beautiful and moving narrative history of Chinese migrants and Chinese Americans. At Harold Washington Library Center. Here's more:
chipublib.bibliocommons.com/events/6761b....
Author Michael Luo: Strangers in the Land
In celebration of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, CPL welcomes journalist Michael Luo to discuss his new book Strangers In The Land: Exclusion, Belonging, And The Epic Story Of The...
chipublib.bibliocommons.com
May 6, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Chicago friends! TONIGHT: talking with
@michaelluo.bsky.social about his stunning book, "Strangers in the Land." It's a beautiful and moving narrative history of Chinese migrants and Chinese Americans. At Harold Washington Library Center. Here's more:
chipublib.bibliocommons.com/events/6761b....
@michaelluo.bsky.social about his stunning book, "Strangers in the Land." It's a beautiful and moving narrative history of Chinese migrants and Chinese Americans. At Harold Washington Library Center. Here's more:
chipublib.bibliocommons.com/events/6761b....
Hello Chicago! I'm happy to be celebrating the publication of @michaelluo's book "Strangers in the Land," by talking with him at Chicago's Harold Washington Library Center. It's next Tuesday, May 6. Read more here:
chipublib.bibliocommons.com/events/6761b...
chipublib.bibliocommons.com/events/6761b...
Author Michael Luo: Strangers in the Land
In celebration of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, CPL welcomes journalist Michael Luo to discuss his new book Strangers In The Land: Exclusion, Belonging, And The Epic Story Of The...
chipublib.bibliocommons.com
April 29, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Hello Chicago! I'm happy to be celebrating the publication of @michaelluo's book "Strangers in the Land," by talking with him at Chicago's Harold Washington Library Center. It's next Tuesday, May 6. Read more here:
chipublib.bibliocommons.com/events/6761b...
chipublib.bibliocommons.com/events/6761b...
New York friends! Please join us at @mcnallyjackson.bsky.social on Tuesday 5/13. We're celebrating the publication of Mike Luo's book, Strangers in the Land, with a discussion on the uses of history today. With Mike Luo, Jelani Cobb, David Remnick, and me.
www.mcnallyjackson.com/event/05132025
www.mcnallyjackson.com/event/05132025
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April 22, 2025 at 12:50 PM
New York friends! Please join us at @mcnallyjackson.bsky.social on Tuesday 5/13. We're celebrating the publication of Mike Luo's book, Strangers in the Land, with a discussion on the uses of history today. With Mike Luo, Jelani Cobb, David Remnick, and me.
www.mcnallyjackson.com/event/05132025
www.mcnallyjackson.com/event/05132025
I'm really into this new episode of Writing Latinos! On Nicolás Medina Mora's novel, "América del Norte". Check it out!
New at PB: In the latest episode of our podcast exploring the many meanings of Latinidad, host Geraldo Cadava (@geraldo-cadava.bsky.social) talks with author Nicolás Medina Mora about his new book “América del Norte” (@sohopress.bsky.social).
Nicolás Medina Mora on “América del Norte”
“One of the main differences between Mexico and the United States is that in Mexico history is very much alive.”
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April 16, 2025 at 10:26 PM
I'm really into this new episode of Writing Latinos! On Nicolás Medina Mora's novel, "América del Norte". Check it out!
In the new episode of Writing Latinos, we talk with @aranama about her book "LatinoLand," out now in paperback! Podcast from @publicbooks.bsky.social, book from Simon & Schuster.
Marie Arana was the first Latina editor of the WaPo's Book World, the inaugural literary director of the Library of Congress, & the author of several books. For “Writing Latinos,” @geraldo-cadava.bsky.social talks with Arana about her new book, “LatinoLand.”
Marie Arana on “LatinoLand”
“The United States is not idea. We are human beings and nobody represents that more in my book than latinos.”
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April 3, 2025 at 8:02 PM
In the new episode of Writing Latinos, we talk with @aranama about her book "LatinoLand," out now in paperback! Podcast from @publicbooks.bsky.social, book from Simon & Schuster.
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Donald Trump's phobias and fantasies as marching orders for our public history.
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Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Restores Truth and Sanity to American History
RESTORING TRUTH IN AMERICAN HISTORY: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order restoring truth and sanity to American history by
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March 27, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Donald Trump's phobias and fantasies as marching orders for our public history.
www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/...
www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/...
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“We as a nation have devalued in tandem Latinx food and Latinx food labor at the same time.”
New at PB, @geraldo-cadava.bsky.social speaks with Lori A. Flores about her new book “Awaiting Their Feast”:
New at PB, @geraldo-cadava.bsky.social speaks with Lori A. Flores about her new book “Awaiting Their Feast”:
Lori A. Flores on “Awaiting their Feast”
You probably remember the picture of himself, both thumbs up, that Donald Trump posted on social media with the caption, “Best Taco Bowl.” It was his ode to Mexican food on Cinco de Mayo 2016. The ...
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March 21, 2025 at 1:35 PM
“We as a nation have devalued in tandem Latinx food and Latinx food labor at the same time.”
New at PB, @geraldo-cadava.bsky.social speaks with Lori A. Flores about her new book “Awaiting Their Feast”:
New at PB, @geraldo-cadava.bsky.social speaks with Lori A. Flores about her new book “Awaiting Their Feast”: