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Cynthia Orozco, "Agent of Change: Adela Sloss-V...
Orozco traces the life of Adela Sloss-Vento, a twentieth-century Mexican American woman civil rights activist in Texas...
61 min
227
Brian A. Stauffer, "Victory on Earth or in Heav...
Stauffer reconstructs the history of Mexico's forgotten "Religionero" rebellion of 1873-1877, an armed Catholic challenge to the government of Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada...
58 min
228
John Weber, "From South Texas to the Nation: Th...
Weber discusses migrant agricultural labor, immigration policy, and the long-term impacts of the labor relations model that developed in South Texas during the early twentieth century...
37 min
229
Salvador Salinas, "Land, Liberty, and Water: Mo...
Salinas fills an important gap in the history of the Zapatista Revolution in Morelos - namely, what happened after 1920...
41 min
230
Matthew D. O'Hara, "The History of the Future i...
O’Hara uncovers a vast array of social practices in colonial Mexico that force us to reconsider who owns the future...
32 min
231
C. J. Alvarez, "Border Land, Border Water: A Hi...
Alvarez offers an over one-hundred-year history that extends to before the building of a border wall in 1990...
57 min
232
S. Deborah Kang, "The INS on the Line: Making I...
Kang explores the history behind Immigration and Naturalization Service throughout the 20th Century,..
47 min
233
Kathleen M. McIntyre, "Protestantism and State ...
McIntyre explores the impact of Protestantism on Catholic indigenous communities in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca in the period directly following the Mexican Revolution 1910-1920...
52 min
234
Gary J. Adler, Jr., "Empathy Beyond US Borders:...
Do immersion trips really transform those who participate and how so?
54 min
235
Christina Jiménez, "Making an Urban Public: Pop...
"Making an Urban Public" is a social history of the city of Morelia, located in Western Mexico in the state of Michoacán...
48 min
236
Julia Young, "Mexican Exodus: Emigrants, Exiles...
Young reframes the Cristero war as a transnational conflict...
49 min
237
Elena Albarrán, "Seen and Heard in Mexico: Chil...
Albarran explores the changing politics of childhood during the period 1920-1940, in the wake of the Mexican Revolution...
48 min
238
Nora Jaffary, "Reproduction and its Discontents...
Jaffary tracks how medical ideas, practices, and policies surrounding reproduction changed between the late eighteenth and early twentieth centuries in Mexico...
67 min
239
Miroslava Chávez-García, "Migrant Longing: Lett...
"Migrant Longing" is a history of migration, courtship, and identity across the U.S.-Mexican border...
53 min
240
Bernardo Ramirez Rios, "Transnational Sport in ...
The game of basketball is not necessarily associated with Mexicans or Mexican Americans...
55 min
241
Bianca Premo, "The Enlightenment on Trial: Ordi...
Premo demonstrates a gradual shift from a justice-oriented system—focused on extralegal outcomes and casuistic jurisprudence—to a Enlightened law-oriented system...
68 min
242
Joseph U. Lenti, "Redeeming the Revolution: The...
Lenti focuses on state-labor relations in the decade directly following the massacre of peacefully protesting students in 1968...
49 min
243
Monica Muñoz Martinez, "The Injustice Never Lea...
Martinez argues that the rampant violence inflicted by Anglos against Mexican and Latinx people in Texas in the early twentieth century left a long legacy which reverberates into the twenty first century...
67 min
244
Gabriela González, "Redeeming La Raza: Transbor...
Gonzalez strategies transborder activists used to redeem la raza from body politic exclusion happening in the U.S....
63 min
245
Casey Lurtz, "From the Grounds Up: Building an ...
Lurtz explains how the fertile yet isolated region of the Soconusco became integrated into global markets in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth centuries...
57 min
246
Anna Rose Alexander, "City on Fire: Technology,...
Alexander examines the approaches to dealing with the ever-present threat of fire in Mexico City in an era in which technology and modernity were transforming the city in fundamental ways...
37 min
247
Laura R. Barraclough, "Charros: How Mexican Cow...
Barraclough writes the history of elite Mexican and Mexican-American cowboys – charros – and how charro culture served as a site of contested national identity in the mid twentieth century United States...
67 min
248
Daniel Nemser, "Infrastructures of Race: Concen...
Nemser examines the long history of how Spanish imperial rule depended upon spatial concentration – the gathering of people and things into centralized spaces – to control populations and consolidate power...
60 min
249
P. L. Caballero and A. Acevedo-Rodrigo, "Beyond...
"Beyond Alterity" is an interdisciplinary collection of essays that take such an approach to studying indigenous communities and the concept of indigeneity...
80 min
250
Paul Ramírez, "Enlightened Immunity: Mexico’s E...
Ramirez explores how laypeople impacted the new medical techniques and technologies implemented by the imperial state in the final decades of Spanish rule in colonial Mexico...
54 min