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August 13, 2024
Undocumented Lives
In the 1970s, the Mexican government acted to alleviate rural unemployment by supporting the migration of able-bodied men. Millions crossed into the U…
July 30, 2018
Inventing the Immigration Problem
In 1907 the U.S. Congress created a joint commission to investigate what many Americans saw as a national crisis: an unprecedented number of immigrant…
July 10, 2018
The Heart of the Mission
In The Heart of the Mission: Latino Art and Politics in San Francisco (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017), Cary Cordova combines urban, political…
May 28, 2018
The Chinese Must Go
The American West erupted in anti-Chinese violence in 1885. Following the massacre of Chinese miners in Wyoming Territory, communities throughout Cali…
April 5, 2018
Raza Si, Migra No
As immigration from Mexico to the United States grew through the 1970s and 1980s, the Border Patrol, police, and other state agents exerted increasing…
March 30, 2018
Porous Borders
With the railroad's arrival in the late nineteenth century, immigrants of all colors rushed to the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, transforming the region in…
July 28, 2017
Global Americans
America's national experience and collective history have always been subject to transnational forces and affected by global events and conditions. In…
July 24, 2017
Devoured
In Devoured: How What We Eat Defines Who We Are (William Morrow Books, 2017), food writer and Culinary Institute of America program director Sophie E…
June 8, 2017
Escaping the Dark, Gray City
The turn of the twentieth century caught America at a crossroads, shaking the dust from a bygone era and hurtling toward the promises of modernity. Fa…
September 12, 2016
Defiant Braceros
Mireya Loza's Defiant Braceros How Migrant Workers Fought for Racial, Sexual, and Political Freedom (University of North Carolina Press, 2016) sheds n…
June 28, 2016
The Nature of California
The California farmlands have long served as a popular symbol of America's natural abundance and endless opportunity. Yet, from John Steinbeck's The G…
June 8, 2016
The Strange Career of William Ellis
To his contemporaries in Gilded Age Manhattan, Guillermo Eliseo was a fantastically wealthy Mexican, the proud owner of a luxury apartment overlooking…
December 17, 2015
Corazon de Dixie
Julie M. Weise's new book Corazon de Dixie: Mexicanos in the U.S. South Since 1910 (UNC Press, 2015) is the first book to comprehensively document Mex…