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About Brad Wright

I am a historian of Latin America specializing in postrevolutionary Mexico. PhD in Public History with emphasis in oral history. My research interests include post-1968 Mexico, the urban popular movement, Christian base communities, popular education, cities in Latin America, popular culture, class formation, Latin American social movements, rural migration, and place. Assistant Professor of Latin American History, Alabama A&M University

Brad H. Wright is a historian of Latin America specializing in postrevolutionary Mexico. PhD in Public History. Asst. Prof. of Latin American History at Alabama A&M University

NBN Episodes hosted by Brad:

Latin American Studies September 1, 2023

Love and Despair

How Catholic Activism Shaped Politics and the Counterculture in Modern Mexico

Jaime M. Pensado

Hosted by Brad Wright
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Love and Despair: How Catholic Activism Shaped Politics and the Counterculture in Modern Mexico (U California Press, 2023) explores the multiple and mostly unknown ways progressive and conservative Catholic actors …
Latin American Studies August 6, 2023

Sewer of Progress

Corporations, Institutionalized Corruption, and the Struggle for the Santiago River

Cindy McCulligh

Hosted by Brad Wright
For almost two decades, the citizens of Western Mexico have called for a cleanup of the Santiago River, a water source so polluted it emanates an overwhelming acidic stench. Toxic …
Latin American Studies January 15, 2023

The Sovereign Street

Making Revolution in Urban Bolivia

Carwil Bjork-James

Hosted by Brad Wright
In the early twenty-first century Bolivian social movements made streets, plazas, and highways into the decisively important spaces for acting politically, rivaling and at times exceeding voting booths and halls …
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 …
Latin American Studies July 28, 2022

Region Out of Place

The Brazilian Northeast and the World, 1924-1968

Courtney J. Campbell

Hosted by Brad Wright
The Brazilian Northeast has long been a marginalized region with a complex relationship to national identity. It is often portrayed as impoverished, backward, and rebellious, yet traditional and culturally authentic …
Latin American Studies February 18, 2022

Unintended Lessons of Revolution

Student Teachers and Political Radicalism in Twentieth-Century Mexico

Tanalís Padilla

Hosted by 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 …