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Chinese Studies March 19, 2023

China and Latin America

Development, Agency and Geopolitics

Chris Alden and Alvaro Mendez

Hosted by Miranda Melcher
China's role as an economic powerhouse in Latin America is reshaping a region on the cusp of development and change. Since the turn of the century, bilateral trade between China …

Mexican Studies

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Interviews with scholar of Mexico about their new books

Political Science March 16, 2023

The Informal Regulation of Criminal Markets in Latin America

Hernán Flom

Hosted by Lilly Goren
Political Scientist Hernán Flom has written a fascinating and nuanced analysis of how the criminal drug markets operate in Argentina and Brazil. Instead of tracking the path that illegal drugs …
Latin American Studies March 11, 2023

Abandoning Their Beloved Land

The Politics of Bracero Migration in Mexico

Alberto García

Hosted by Rachel Newman
Abandoning Their Beloved Land: The Politics of Bracero Migration in Mexico (U California Press, 2023) offers an essential new history of the Bracero Program, a bilateral initiative that allowed Mexican …
Mexican Studies March 9, 2023

Conspiracy Narratives South of the Border

Bad Hombres Do the Twist

Gonzalo Soltero

Hosted by Roberto Mazza
Gonzalo Soltero's book Conspiracy Narratives South of the Border: Bad Hombres Do the Twist (Routledge, 2022) examines four conspiracy narratives from Mexico that push the boundaries of conspiracy research in a …
Peoples & Things March 6, 2023

Radio Broadcasting Along Mexico's Northern Border, 1930-1950

A Conversation with Sonia Robles

Sonia Robles

Hosted by Lee Vinsel
Sonia Robles, an assistant professor of history at the University of Delaware, talks about her book, Mexican Waves: Radio Broadcasting Along Mexico’s Northern Border, 1930-1950 (University of Arizona Press, 2019) …
Anthropology March 5, 2023

Materializing Ritual Practices

Lisa M. Johnson and Rosemary A. Joyce

Hosted by Adam Bobeck
Materializing Ritual Practices (U Colorado Press, 2022) explores the deep history of ritual practice in Mexico and Central America and the ways interdisciplinary research can be coordinated to illuminate how …
Economic and Business History February 9, 2023

The Routledge History of Modern Latin American Migration

Andreas E. Feldmann, Xochitl Bada, and Jorge Durand

Hosted by Javier Mejia
The Routledge History of Modern Latin American Migration (Routledge, 2022) offers a systematic account of population movements to and from the region over the last 150 years, spanning from the …
Latino Studies February 6, 2023

Transborder Los Angeles

An Unknown Transpacific History of Japanese-Mexican Relations

Yu Tokunaga

Hosted by David-James Gonzales
Focusing on Los Angeles farmland during the years between the Immigration Act of 1924 and the Japanese Internment in 1942, Transborder Los Angeles: An Unknown Transpacific History of Japanese-Mexican Relations …
Latin American Studies January 31, 2023

The Enlightened Patrolman

Early Law Enforcement in Mexico City

Nicole von Germeten

Hosted by Ethan Fredrick
When late eighteenth-century New Spanish viceregal administrators installed public lamps in the streets of central Mexico City, they illuminated the bodies of Indigenous, Afro-descended, and plebeian Spanish urbanites. The urban …
Jewish Studies January 30, 2023

Anthology of Religious Poetry from the Mexican Inquisition Trials of 16th-Century CryptoJews

Mark A. Schneegurt

Hosted by Ari Barbalat
A century after being expelled from Portugal, cryptoJews in Mexico, false converts to Christianity, could not speak of their beliefs for fear of becoming embroiled in the imprisonment, torture, and …
International Horizons January 30, 2023

A Left Turn? The Politics of Latin America Today

A Discussion with Enrique Desmond Arias

Enrique Desmond Arias

Hosted by International Horizons
This week, RBI director John Torpey interviews Prof. Enrique Desmond Arias, a professor of political science at Baruch College and the Graduate Center, about recent developments in Latin American politics …
Peoples & Things January 27, 2023

The History of Electricity in Mexico

A Discussion with Diana Montaño

Diana Montaño

Hosted by Lee Vinsel
In her detailed cultural history of technological change, Electrifying Mexico, Diana Montaño argues that ordinary Mexicans became electrifying agents who actively negotiated the extent and manner electricity entered their lives …
Anthropology January 24, 2023

Undocumented Motherhood

Conversations on Love, Trauma, and Border Crossing

Elizabeth Farfán-Santos

Hosted by Reighan Gillam
Claudia Garcia crossed the border because her toddler, Natalia, could not hear. Leaving behind everything she knew in Mexico, Claudia recounts the terror of migrating alone with her toddler and …
Environmental Studies January 21, 2023

Endangered Maize

Industrial Agriculture and the Crisis of Extinction

Helen Anne Curry

Hosted by Isobel Akerman
In Endangered Maize: Industrial Agriculture and the Crisis of Extinction (U California Press, 2022), historian Helen Anne Curry investigates more than a hundred years of agriculture and conservation practices to …
Latin American Studies January 17, 2023

Voices of the Race

Black Newspapers in Latin America, 1870-1960

Paulina Laura Alberto, George Reid Andrews, and Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof

Hosted by Reighan Gillam
Voices of the Race: Black Newspapers in Latin America, 1870-1960 (Cambridge University Press, 2022) offers English translations of more than one hundred articles published in Black newspapers in Argentina, Brazil, Cuba …
Mexican Studies January 14, 2023

Sovereign Joy

Afro-Mexican Kings and Queens, 1539-1640

Miguel Valerio

Hosted by Isabel Machado
Sovereign Joy Afro-Mexican Kings and Queens, 1539-1640 (Cambridge University Press, 2022) explores the performance of festive black kings and queens among Afro-Mexicans between 1539 and 1640. It illustrates how the …
Critical Theory January 6, 2023

A Sense of Brutality

Philosophy after Narco-Culture

Carlos Alberto Sánchez

Hosted by Pamela Fuentes
Contemporary popular culture is riddled with references to Mexican drug cartels, narcos, and drug trafficking. In the United States, documentary filmmakers, journalists, academics, and politicians have taken note of the …
General History December 16, 2022

Bountiful Deserts

Sustaining Indigenous Worlds in Northern New Spain

Cynthia Radding

Hosted by Joaquín Rivaya-Martínez
Common understandings drawn from biblical references, literature, and art portray deserts as barren places that are far from God and spiritual sustenance. In our own time, attention focuses on the …
Mobilities and Methods December 10, 2022

Oaxaca in Motion

An Ethnography of Internal, Transnational, and Return Migration

Iván Sandoval-Cervantes

Hosted by Alize Arıcan
Migration is typically seen as a transnational phenomenon, but it happens within borders, too. Oaxaca in Motion: An Ethnography of Internal, Transnational, and Return Migration (U Texas Press, 2022), documents a …
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 …