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Darts & Letters
August 11, 2022
Modifying Maize
How Genetically Modified Corn Changed Science, Academia and Indigenous Rights in Mexico (Part 1 of 2)
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Gordon Katic
This is part 1 of a 2-part series from Cited - the predecessor of Darts and Letters. When genetically modified corn was found in the highlands of Mexico, Indigenous campesino …
Mexican Studies
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Interviews with scholar of Mexico about their new books
Latin American Studies
August 3, 2022
The New Pan-Americanism and the Structuring of Inter-American Relations
Juan Pablo Scarfi and David M. K. Sheinin
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Steven Rodriguez
In The New Pan-Americanism and the Structuring of Inter-American Relations (Routledge, 2022), David Sheinin and Juan Pablo Scarfi bring together articles that reconsider many aspects of U.S.-Latin American history. Pan-Americanism …
General History
July 18, 2022
Educating the Enemy
Teaching Nazis and Mexicans in the Cold War Borderlands
Jonna Perrillo
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Nathan Moore
Educating the Enemy: Teaching Nazis and Mexicans in the Cold War Borderlands (U Chicago Press, 2022) begins with the 144 children of Nazi scientists who moved to El Paso, Texas …
Latin American Studies
July 1, 2022
Bedlam in the New World
A Mexican Madhouse in the Age of Enlightenment
Christina Ramos
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Lisette Varon Carvajal
In Bedlam in the New World: A Mexican Madhouse in the Age of Enlightenment (UNC Press, 2022), Christina Ramos tells us the story of Mexico city’s oldest public institution for …
Latino Studies
June 17, 2022
A Place at the Nayarit
How a Mexican Restaurant Nourished a Community
Natalia Molina
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Ari Barbalat
In 1951, Doña Natalia Barraza opened the Nayarit, a Mexican restaurant in Echo Park, Los Angeles. With A Place at the Nayarit: How a Mexican Restaurant Nourished a Community (U California …
American West
June 13, 2022
Making a Modern U.S. West
The Contested Terrain of a Region and Its Borders, 1898-1940
Sarah Deutsch
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Stephen Hausmann
In less than half a century, the American West changed dramatically from a region of dynamic borders, politics, and identities to a more fixed zone of borders and demarcations …
Latin American Studies
May 9, 2022
Bad Mexicans
Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands
Kelly Lytle Hernández
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Ari Barbalat
Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands (Norton, 2022)tells the dramatic story of the magonistas, the migrant rebels who sparked the 1910 Mexican Revolution from the United States …
Latino Studies
April 25, 2022
Borderlands Curanderos
The Worlds of Santa Teresa Urrea and Don Pedrito Jaramillo
Jennifer Koshatka Seman
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Jonathan Cortez
Recent global events have unmasked inequitable healthcare systems that disproportionately affect poor Latinx populations along the U.S-Mexico border. Professor Jennifer K. Seman’s recent publication offers a brief insight into these …
Anthropology
April 22, 2022
Indigenous Dispossession
Housing and Maya Indebtedness in Mexico
M. Bianet Castellanos
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Jolon Timms
Following the recent global housing boom, tract housing development became a billion-dollar industry in Mexico. At the national level, neoliberal housing policy has overtaken debates around land reform. For Indigenous …
Sociology
April 6, 2022
Privilege at Play
Class, Race, Gender, and Golf in Mexico
Hugo Ceron-Anaya
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Rituparna Patgiri
Privilege at Play: Class, Race, Gender, and Golf in Mexico (Oxford University Press, 2019) is a book about inequalities, social hierarchies, and privilege in contemporary Mexico. Based on ethnographic research …
Biography
March 7, 2022
Frida in America
The Creative Awakening of a Great Artist
Celia Stahr
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Jon Najarian
Mexican artist Frida Kahlo adored adventure. In November, 1930, she was thrilled to realize her dream of traveling to the United States to live in San Francisco, Detroit, and New …
Latin American Studies
February 18, 2022
Unintended Lessons of Revolution
Student Teachers and Political Radicalism in Twentieth-Century Mexico
Tanalís Padilla
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Brad Wright
In the 1920s, Mexico established rural normales—boarding schools that trained teachers in a new nation-building project. Drawn from campesino ranks and meant to cultivate state allegiance, their graduates would facilitate …
Environmental Studies
January 31, 2022
The Church of the Dead
The Epidemic of 1576 and the Birth of Christianity in the Americas
Jennifer Scheper Hughes
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Brady McCartney
The Church of the Dead: The Epidemic of 1576 and the Birth of Christianity in the Americas (NYU Press, 2021) tells the story of the founding of American Christianity against the …
Latino Studies
January 4, 2022
Reverberations of Racial Violence
Critical Reflections on the History of the Border
Sonia Hernández and John Morán González
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Tiffany Gonzalez
In the wake of protests and marches for racial and gender justice in the twenty-first century, scholars have located and argued that racial violence has been embedded in the very …
Literary Studies
January 4, 2022
Strategic Occidentalism
On Mexican Fiction, the Neoliberal Book Market, and the Question of World Literature
Ignacio M. Sanchez Prado
Hosted by
Bryant Scott
Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado is Professor of Spanish, Latin American Studies, and Film and Media Studies at Washington University in St. Louis. His areas of research include Latin American intellectual …
General History
November 23, 2021
Confederates and Comancheros
Skullduggery and Double-Dealing in the Texas-New Mexico Borderlands
James Bailey Blackshear and Glen Sample Ely
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Mark Klobas
A vast and desolate region, the Texas-New Mexico borderlands have long been an ideal setting for intrigue and illegal dealings--never more so than in the lawless early days of cattle …
Food
November 18, 2021
Avocado
A Global History
Jeff Miller
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Amir Sayadabdi
The avocado is the iconic food of the twenty-first century. It has gone from a little-known regional food to a social media darling in less than a hundred years. This …
Latino Studies
November 10, 2021
Border Women and the Community of Maclovio Rojas
Autonomy in the Spaces of Neoliberal Neglect
Michelle Téllez
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David-James Gonzales
Near Tijuana, Baja California, the autonomous community of Maclovio Rojas demonstrates what is possible for urban place-based political movements. More than a community, Maclovio Rojas is a women-led social movement …
Anthropology
November 1, 2021
Becoming Gods
Medical Training in Mexican Hospitals
Vania Smith-Oka
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Reighan Gillam
In Becoming Gods: Medical Training in Mexican Hospitals (Rutgers University Press, 2021), Vania Smith-Oka follows a cohort of interns throughout their year of medical training in hospitals to understand how …
Latin American Studies
October 26, 2021
La Güera Rodrígue
The Life and Legends of a Mexican Independence Heroine
Silvia Marina Arrom
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Rachel Newman
In La Guera Rodriguez: The Life and Legends of a Mexican Independence Heroine (U California Press, 2021), Silvia Marina Arrom traces the legends of María Ignacia Rodríguez de Velasco y …
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