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Mexican Studies
American West November 22, 2022

Country of the Cursed and the Driven

Slavery and the Texas Borderlands

Paul Barba

Hosted by Stephen Hausmann
Most of what people think they know about Texas history is wrong, argues Bucknell University history professor Paul Barba in Country of the Cursed and the Driven: Slavery in the Texas …

Mexican Studies

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Interviews with scholar of Mexico about their new books

Caribbean Studies November 7, 2022

Natural Disasters in Latin America and the Caribbean

Coping with Calamity

June Carolyn Erlick

Hosted by Aleem Mahabir
In Natural Disasters in Latin America and the Caribbean: Coping with Calamity (Routledge, 2021), June Carolyn Erlick explores the relationship between natural disasters and civil society, immigration and diaspora communities …
Politics & Polemics November 2, 2022

Chingona

Owning Your Inner Badass for Healing and Justice

Alma Zaragoza-Petty

Hosted by Galina Limorenko
In Chingona: Owning Your Inner Badass for Healing and Justice (Broadleaf Books, 2022), Mexican American activist, scholar, and podcast host Alma Zaragoza-Petty helps us claim our inner chingona, a Spanish …
Mexican Studies October 31, 2022

Mexico's Human Rights Crisis

Alejandro Anaya-Muñoz and Barbara Frey

Hosted by Ari Barbalat
Lawless elements are ascendant in Mexico, as evidenced by the operations of criminal cartels engaged in human and drug trafficking, often with the active support or acquiescence of government actors …
American West October 31, 2022

Unsettled Land

From Revolution to Republic, the Struggle for Texas

Sam W. Haynes

Hosted by Andrew Graybill
The Texas Revolution has long been cast as an epic episode in the origins of the American West. As the story goes, larger-than-life figures like Sam Houston, David Crockett, and …
Novel Dialogue October 20, 2022

“A short, sharp punch to the face”

José Revueltas’ "The Hole" (El Apando) with Alia Trabucco Zerán and Sophie Hughes

Alia Trabucco Zerán and Sophie Hughes

Hosted by Novel Dialogue
Alia Trabucco Zerán, award-winning author of The Remainder (La Resta), and Women Who Kill (Las Homicidas), and Sophie Hughes, Alia’s translator and finalist for the International Booker Prize talk with …
Sports October 19, 2022

Mexican American Fastpitch

Vernacular Sport and Cultural Citizenship in Mid-America

Ben Chappell

Hosted by Keith Rathbone
Today we are joined by Ben Chappell, Professor of American Studies at the University of Kansas, and author of Mexican American Fastpitch: Identity at Play in Vernacular Sport (Stanford University …
Latin American Studies October 7, 2022

The World That Latin America Created

The United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America in the Development Era

Margarita Fajardo

Hosted by Piotr Kosicki
The World That Latin America Created: The United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America in the Development Era (Harvard University Press, 2022) tells the story of how a group of …
Latin American Studies October 5, 2022

The Middle Classes in Latin America

Subjectivities, Practices, and Genealogies

Mario Barbosa Cruz, A. Ricardo López-Pedreros and Claudia Stern

Hosted by Rachel Newman
As a collective effort, The Middle Classes in Latin America: Subjectivities, Practices, and Genealogies (Routledge, 2022) locates the formation of the middle classes at the core of the histories of …
Early Modern History September 30, 2022

Sacrifice and Conversion in the Early Modern Atlantic World

Maria Berbara

Hosted by Jana Byars
When Europeans came to the American continent in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, they were confronted with what they perceived as sacrificial practices. Representations of Tupinamba cannibals, Aztecs slicing human …
Historical Fiction September 29, 2022

Miss Del Río

A Novel of Dolores del Río, the First Major Latina Star in Hollywood

Bárbara Mujica

Hosted by C. P. Lesley
Miss del Río (Graydon House Books, 2022) explores the biography of a real-life actress, Dolores del Río, who became a silent movie star in Hollywood, navigated the transition to talkies, and …
Latin American Studies September 14, 2022

Riot and Rebellion in Mexico

The Making of a Race War Paradigm

Ana Sabau

Hosted by Ethan Fredrick
Many scholars assert that Mexico’s complex racial hierarchy, inherited from Spanish colonialism, became obsolete by the turn of the nineteenth century as class-based distinctions became more prominent and a largely …
Gender Studies September 13, 2022

Transmovimientos

Latinx Queer Migrations, Bodies, and Spaces

Ellie D. Hernández, Eddy Francisco Alvarez, and Magda García

Hosted by Isabel Machado
Edited by Ellie D. Hernandez, Eddy Francisco Alvarez Jr., and Magda García, Transmovimientos: Latinx Queer Migrations, Bodies, and Space (University of Nebraska Press, 2021) focuses on queer, trans, and gender nonconforming communities of …
Latin American Studies August 24, 2022

Feminista Frequencies

Community Building through Radio in the Yakima Valley

Monica De La Torre

Hosted by Brad Wright
Beginning in the 1970s Chicana and Chicano organizers turned to community radio broadcasting to educate, entertain, and uplift Mexican American listeners across the United States. In rural areas, radio emerged …
Latino Studies August 18, 2022

Pioneer of Mexican-American Civil Rights

Alonso S. Perales

Cynthia E. Orozco

Hosted by Tiffany Gonzalez
In this episode, Tiffany speaks with Professor Cynthia Orozco about her new book, Pioneer of Mexican-American Civil Rights: Alonso S. Perales, published with Arte Público Press in 2020. Alonso S …
Darts & Letters August 12, 2022

Made of Corn

How Genetically Modified Corn Changed Science, Academia and Indigenous Rights in Mexico (Part 2 of 2)

Hosted by Gordon Katic
This is part 2 of a 2-part series from Cited - the predecessor of Darts and Letters. For the final episode of our “Activism & Academia”-themed week of programming, we’re …
Darts & Letters August 11, 2022

Modifying Maize

How Genetically Modified Corn Changed Science, Academia and Indigenous Rights in Mexico (Part 1 of 2)

Hosted by 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 …
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

Hosted by 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

Hosted by 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

Hosted by 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 …