New Books in Mexican Studies
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Maurice Rafael Magaña, "Cartographies of Youth ...
An interview with Maurice Rafael Magaña
61 min
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Rihan Yeh, "Passing: Two Publics in a Mexican B...
An interview with Rihan Yeh
49 min
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Christy Thornton, "Revolution in Development: M...
Interview with Christy Thornton
59 min
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Camilla Townsend, "Fifth Sun: A New History of ...
An interview with Camilla Townsend
58 min
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Vanessa Freije, "Citizens of Scandal: Journalis...
An interview with Vanessa Freije
61 min
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Elisa Pulido, "The Spiritual Evolution of Marga...
An Interview with Elisa Pulido
58 min
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Norah L. A. Gharala, "Taxing Blackness: Free Af...
Interview with Norah L. A. Gharala
45 min
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Matilde Córdoba Azcárate, "Stuck with Tourism: ...
An interview with Matilde Córdoba Azcárate
69 min
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Eric Zolov, "The Last Good Neighbor: Mexico in ...
Zolov retells the history of 1960s Mexico by focusing on the way that Mexican political leaders pursued a paradoxical foreign policy agenda...
53 min
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Ben Vinson III, "Before Mestizaje: The Frontier...
Vinson opens new dimensions on race in Latin America by examining the extreme caste groups of colonial Mexico...
33 min
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David Tavárez, "The Invisible War: Indigenous D...
Tavárez guides his readers through four centuries of the Mexican Inquisition in the episcopal sees of México and Oaxaca...
58 min
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Maurice S. Crandall, "These People Have Always ...
Crandall demonstrates how Indigenous communities implemented, subverted, rejected, and indigenized colonial ideologies of democracy, both to accommodate and to oppose colonial power...
60 min
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Mark Santiago, "A Bad Peace and A Good War: Spa...
In August 1795, Apaches wiped out two Spanish patrols In the desert borderlands of the what is today the American Southwest and Mexican north....
65 min
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Gema Kloppe-Santamaría, "Vortex of Violence: Ly...
Kloppe-Santamaría examines the history of violence enacted by groups against alleged transgressors who claimed to bring justice while acting beyond the rule of law...
55 min
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Philis Barragán-Goetz, "Reading, Writing, and R...
Barragán-Goetz argues that through cultural negotiation, escuelitas (community schools) shaped Mexican American identity and civil rights activism in the late 19th and early 20th century...
48 min
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Deborah E. Kanter, "Chicago Católico: Making Ca...
What happens when a new group of migrants enters not just the social and economic life of a city, but also its religious institutions?
42 min
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José Alamillo, "Deportes: The Making of a Sport...
Alamillo illustrates how sports intersect in the making of a Latina/o identity, civil rights activities, and community...
44 min
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David Tavárez, "Words and Worlds Turned Around:...
Tavarez and his colleagues tackle the big questions of the Christianization of Mexico after the Spanish Conquest and using sources in several indigenous languages...
86 min
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Benjamin T. Smith, "The Mexican Press and Civil...
Mexico today is one of the most dangerous places in the world to report the news, and Mexicans have taken to the street to defend freedom of expression...
48 min
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Luz María Hernández Sáenz, "Carving a Niche: Th...
Sáenz follows the trajectory of physicians in their quest for the professionalization of medicine in Mexico...
59 min
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Allison Bigelow, "Mining Language: Racial Think...
The Spanish Empire in particular was created for and founded upon the mining and coining of silver ore from its colonies...
42 min
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David Carballo, "Collision of Worlds: A Deep Hi...
Carballo provides a deep history of the encounter, one that considers temporal depth in the richly layered cultures of Mexico and Spain...
60 min
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Nora Haenn, "Marriage after Migration: An Ethno...
Haenn tells the stories of five women in rural Mexico, each navigating the tricky terrain that is men’s international migration...
50 min
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Donald Stevens, "Mexico in the Time of Cholera"...
Stevens uses the 1833 Cholera epidemic that devastated independent Mexico as his his point of departure, this is not primarily a medical history...
37 min
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Victor Uribe-Urán, "Fatal Love: Spousal Killers...
Uribe-Urán compares the cases of Spain, and the late-colonial societies of Mexico and Colombia, in a historical moment characterized by corporate patriarchy and enlightened punishment...
64 min