Publications

In Progress

  • The Young Lords Speak: Building Revolution on the Streets of Chicago. Edited by Jacqueline Lazú. Foreword by José “Cha Cha” Jiménez.  Chicago, IL: Haymarket Books. (Forthcoming 2026)
  • Stone Revolutionaries: The Origins of the Young Lords Movement. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Under contract, expected Fall 2026.
  • “The Chicago Young Lords: Revisiting the Radical Liberatory Praxis of the Y.L.O.” Entre Horizontes: Art and Activism Between Chicago and Puerto Rico. Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. (Forthcoming)
  • “From Lincoln Park to Liberation: The Young Lords in the Struggle for Puerto Rican Independence.” Aquí en Chicago. Chicago History Museum. (Forthcoming)

Published Works

“Criminalization, Punitive Neoliberalism, and the Puerto Rican Independence Movement.”

In The Struggle of Non-sovereign Caribbean Territories: Neoliberalism Since the French Antillean Uprisings of 2009. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2021, pp. 221–259.

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Latin@American Images: Transnational Identities/ Imágenes latinas y latinoamericanas: Identidades trasnacionales

Leco, Beltrán-Vocal, Ruiz, and Lazú (eds). Morelia, Mich., México: Instituto de Investigaciones Económicas y Empresariales, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, 2014.

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“Apocalypse, Femininity and Postcolonial Aesthetics in Nuyorican Theater: José Rivera’s Revolutionary Millenarianism.”

In Latin@American Images: Transnational Identities, edited by Lazú, Beltrán-Vocal, and Leco. Morelia, Mich., México: Universidad Michoacana, 2014.

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“Acts of Resistance: Creativity, Coalition and Consciousness in The King of Cans.”

In The AmeRícan Poet: Essays on the Work of Tato Laviera, edited by Stephanie Alvarez and William Luis. New York: Center for Puerto Rican Studies, 2014, pp. 158–175.

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“Poeta en el Paseo: Tato Laviera’s Chicago Plays.”

Lazú, J. Latino Studies. 11.4 (2013): 527-546.

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“The Chicago Young Lords: (Re)constructing Knowledge and Revolution.”

Lazú, J. Centro Journal. 25.10 (2013): 28-59.

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“Til Death Do Us Part: Love and (Para) Normality in Edwin Sánchez’s Unmerciful Good Fortune.”

Lazú, J. Ollantay Theater Journal (2008): 96–107.

“The Block / El bloque: Writer’s Reflection.”

Lazú, J. Diálogo: An Interdisciplinary Studies Journal, DePaul University, no. 11, Summer 2008, pp. 48–49.

“Fur or Hair: l’effroi et l’attirance of the wild-woman.”

Lazú, J. In The Last Taboo: Women and Body Hair, edited by Karin Lesnik-Oberstein. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2006, pp. 126–145.

“Where the Wild, Strange and Exotic Things Are: In Search of the Caribbean in Contemporary Children’s Literature.”

Lazú, J. In Children’s Literature, edited by Karin Lesnik-Oberstein. London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2004, pp. 189–205.

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