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NBN Episodes hosted by Lori:

Latino Studies August 22, 2018

Undocumented Lives

The Untold Story of Mexican Migration

Ana Raquel Minian

Hosted by Lori Flores
In the 1970s, the Mexican government acted to alleviate rural unemployment by supporting the migration of able-bodied men. Millions crossed into the United States to find work that would help …
General History July 30, 2018

Inventing the Immigration Problem

The Dillingham Commission and Its Legacy

Katherine Benton-Cohen

Hosted by Lori Flores
In 1907 the U.S. Congress created a joint commission to investigate what many Americans saw as a national crisis: an unprecedented number of immigrants flowing into the United States. Experts—women …
Latino Studies July 10, 2018

The Heart of the Mission

Latino Art and Politics in San Francisco

Cary Cordova

Hosted by Lori Flores
In The Heart of the Mission: Latino Art and Politics in San Francisco (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017), Cary Cordova combines urban, political, and art history to examine how the …
Asian American Studies May 28, 2018

The Chinese Must Go

Violence, Exclusion, and the Making of the Alien in America

Beth Lew-Williams

Hosted by Lori Flores
The American West erupted in anti-Chinese violence in 1885. Following the massacre of Chinese miners in Wyoming Territory, communities throughout California and the Pacific Northwest harassed, assaulted, and expelled thousands …
Latino Studies April 5, 2018

Raza Si, Migra No

Chicano Movement Struggles for Immigrant Rights in San Diego

Jimmy Patino

Hosted by Lori Flores
As immigration from Mexico to the United States grew through the 1970s and 1980s, the Border Patrol, police, and other state agents exerted increasing violence against ethnic Mexicans in San …
Latino Studies March 30, 2018

Porous Borders

Multiracial Migrations and the Law in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands

Julian Lim

Hosted by Lori Flores
With the railroad's arrival in the late nineteenth century, immigrants of all colors rushed to the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, transforming the region into a booming international hub of economic and human …
Latino Studies July 28, 2017

Global Americans

A History of the United States

Maria Montoya, et al., eds.

Hosted by Lori Flores
America's national experience and collective history have always been subject to transnational forces and affected by global events and conditions. In recognition of this reality, the textbook Global Americans: A …
Food July 24, 2017

Devoured

How What We Eat Defines Who We Are

Sophie Egan

Hosted by Lori Flores
In Devoured: How What We Eat Defines Who We Are (William Morrow Books, 2017), food writer and Culinary Institute of America program director Sophie Egan takes readers on an eye-opening …
General History June 8, 2017

Escaping the Dark, Gray City

Fear and Hope in Progressive-Era Conservation

Benjamin Heber Johnson

Hosted by Lori Flores
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. Factories, railroads, banks, and oil …
Latino Studies September 12, 2016

Defiant Braceros

How Migrant Workers Fought for Racial, Sexual, and Political Freedom

Mireya Loza

Hosted by Lori Flores
Mireya Loza's Defiant Braceros How Migrant Workers Fought for Racial, Sexual, and Political Freedom (University of North Carolina Press, 2016) sheds new light on the private lives of migrant men …
Latino Studies June 28, 2016

The Nature of California

Race, Citizenship, and Farming since the Dust Bowl

Sarah Wald

Hosted by Lori Flores
The California farmlands have long served as a popular symbol of America's natural abundance and endless opportunity. Yet, from John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath and Carlos Bulosan's America is …
Latino Studies June 8, 2016

The Strange Career of William Ellis

The Texas Slave Who Became a Mexican Millionaire

Karl Jacoby

Hosted by Lori Flores
To his contemporaries in Gilded Age Manhattan, Guillermo Eliseo was a fantastically wealthy Mexican, the proud owner of a luxury apartment overlooking Central Park, a busy Wall Street office, and …
Latino Studies December 17, 2015

Corazon de Dixie

Mexicanos in the U.S. South Since 1910

Julie M. Weise

Hosted by Lori Flores
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 Mexicans' and Mexican Americans' long …