Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies
Aztlán presents original research that is relevant to or informed by the Chicanx/Latinx experience. An interdisciplinary, double-blind peer-reviewed journal, Aztlán focuses on scholarly essays in the humanities, social sciences, and arts, supplemented by thematic pieces in the dossier section, an artist’s communiqué, a review section, and a commentary by the editor, Joshua Javier Guzmán. Aztlán seeks ways to bring Chicanx and Central American studies into critical dialogue with Latino, ethnic, American, and global studies.
Aztlán has been the leading journal in the field of Chicanx studies since 1970. Aztlán is issued twice a year.
Aztlán is published by University of California Press (UC Press) in collaboration with CSRC Press. The journal is offered in print and digital formats.
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Latest Issue
The Spring 2026 issue opens with an Editor’s Commentary by the journal’s new editor in chief, Joshua Javier Guzmán. In the essay section, Kelly Ferguson analyzes the presence of “Mexican Easter eggs”—cultural references that only Latinx audiences are certain to understand—in Disney-Pixar’s Coco and argues that they were largely responsible for the film’s popularity with a widely diverse audience. Esther Díaz Martín introduces schizophonic listening as a way of listening with a feminist ear in her close look at narcocorridos, ballads that recount the lives and deaths of people involved with the illegal drug trade.
The Dossier, curated and introduced by CSRC director Veronica Terriquez, presents research on Latinas and Latina identity. The essays explore the challenges faced by different groups within the large and heterogeneous Latina population, including Afro-Latinas, Latina youth, elderly Latinas, and trans Latinas. Contributors are Lourdes Alberto, Floridalma Boj Lopez, Jack Cáraves, Karina Chavarria, Mirella Díaz-Santos, Rebecca Foote, Celia Lacayo, Stacy I. Macias, Brenda Nicolas, Cecilia Nuñez, Bernardette J. Pinetta, Daina Sanchez, Hedy Torres, Laura Trejo, and Ariana J. Valle. The work of Los Angeles–based artist Margaret Garcia is featured on the cover and in the Artist’s Communiqué.
Cover image: Margaret Garcia, Lanisha Cole, 2022. Oil on wood panel, 24 x 24 inches. Collection of the artist. Copyright 2022 by Margaret Garcia.
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