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:

Jaime M. Pensado, "Love and Despair: How Catholic Activism Shaped Politics and the Counterculture in Modern Mexico" (U California Press, 2023)

September 1, 2023

Love and Despair

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 m…

Cindy McCulligh, "Sewer of Progress: Corporations, Institutionalized Corruption, and the Struggle for the Santiago River" (MIT Press, 2023)

August 6, 2023

Sewer of Progress

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 over…

Carwil Bjork-James, "The Sovereign Street: Making Revolution in Urban Bolivia" (U Arizona Press, 2020)

January 15, 2023

The Sovereign Street

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 politic…

Monica De La Torre, "Feminista Frequencies: Community Building through Radio in the Yakima Valley" (U Washington Press, 2022)

August 24, 2022

Feminista Frequencies

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 listen…

Courtney J. Campbell, "Region Out of Place: The Brazilian Northeast and the World, 1924-1968" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2022)

July 28, 2022

Region Out of Place

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, b…

Tanalís Padilla, "Unintended Lessons of Revolution: Student Teachers and Political Radicalism in Twentieth-Century Mexico" (Duke UP, 2021)

February 18, 2022

Unintended Lessons of Revolution

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 an…