DEIA News Round-Up: September 2026
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Commemorating National Hispanic Heritage Month with TIE and Choice Content
TIE and Choice resources that highlight Latinx scholarship, literature, and activism
Posted on September 15, 2026 in Blog Posts
Commemorating National Hispanic Heritage Month
To commemorate National Hispanic Heritage Month, we’re spotlighting TIE and Choice resources from the past year that focus on the histories, art, and activism of those with Latin American ancestry. Choice, the publisher of TIE and a publishing unit at the Association of College & Research Libraries, a division of the American Library Association, provides book reviews to help librarians identify academic sources and professional development tools like webinars, podcasts, and white papers.
Originating as week-long celebration in 1968, National Hispanic Heritage Month extended to 30 days in 1988. The commemoration begins on September 15th to mark the anniversary of several Latin American countries gaining independence—Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua—in addition to Mexico and Chile’s independence days later in the month.
We hope these resources will help you learn more about the histories and achievements of Latinx communities this month and throughout the year.
Reviews of the Month
Reviews of the Month (formerly Review of the Week) highlights reviews that address topical issues, events, or holidays—or simply, reviews we believe deserve more attention. These picks discuss queer aesthetics in Latin American cinema, Spanish and bilingual radio and podcast programs run by Latinas, and more.
TIE Blog
This selection features upcoming book releases on race and ethnicity, including Latin America and the Caribbean. To keep up with upcoming TIE content, subscribe to the TIE newsletter.
TIE Preview of Upcoming Reads on Race and Ethnicity, 2026
Featured Review
Featured Reviews consider how a title exposes racist systems and inequities or proposes means of dismantling them. These important works from valuable perspectives are of use to undergraduates, faculty, and anyone interested in learning more about racism and racial inequalities. This review examines how US policing, immigration, and security systems utilize data-driven surveillance and carceral liberalism to target Black, Latinx, and Arab/Muslim communities.
An Abolitionist Approach to Criminal Justice: Unmasking the Carceral Networks Behind the Wars on Crime, Terror, and Immigration
Imperial Policing is a coauthored project developed from a series of seminars and collaborations between a network of faculty and PhD candidates at the University of Illinois, Chicago, which formed the basis of the Policing in Chicago Research Group. The primary authors include four current faculty members, two PhD candidates, and one community-based advocate. The authors clearly state that the book represents a project based on abolition; that is, they write from a perspective that envisions the world without police, prisons, territorial borders, or warfare. From the outset, readers are challenged to acknowledge narratives that contest normative models of criminal justice. Audiences are thereby reminded that systems of criminal justice in the United States, as in every local, state, and national jurisdiction, are creations of those same entities—i.e., there are no uniform, fixed models of how a society could and should enforce social norms and legal frameworks. While this abolitionist approach might stand as a barrier to some audiences, those very readers are likely the ones who should listen to these narratives most carefully, as the authors demand that we question the permanency of systems we take for granted as immutable. Read the review of Imperial Policing: Weaponized Data in Carceral Chicago.