Founded in the first century BCE near a set of natural springs in an otherwise dry northeastern corner of the Valley of Mexico, the ancient metropolis of Teotihuacan was on a symbolic …
Read More >Part of the Getty Foundation’s Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA initiative, the California Mexicana: Missions to Murals, 1820–1930 exhibition opens on October 15th at the Laguna Art Museum. Artistic and cultural exchange between California and …
Read More >This guest post is published in conjunction with the meeting of the Latin American Studies Association taking place April 29-May 1 in Lima, Peru. #LASA17 by Pablo Piccato, author of A History of Infamy: …
Read More >This guest post is published in conjunction with the meeting of the Latin American Studies Association taking place April 29-May 1 in Lima, Peru. #LASA17 by Kathryn A. Sloan, author of Death in the …
Read More >Depending on your intake of current event news, the wall—existing and potential—between the United States and Mexico has been a staple feature of this administration’s diet. Among other things it’s divisive, unrealistic, and …
Read More >This post is part of a blog series celebrating the College Art Association annual conference taking place in New York City from February 15–18. Please visit us at Booth 605 if you are attending, and otherwise stay tuned for …
Read More >By Keith Guzik, author of Making Things Stick: Surveillance Technologies and Mexico’s War on Crime This guest post is published in conjunction with the Law and Society Association annual conference in New Orleans, occurring June …
Read More >By Sarah Bowen, author of Divided Spirits: Tequila, Mezcal, and the Politics of Production This guest post is published in advance of the American Sociological Association conference in Chicago. Check back every day for new …
Read More >Ana Elizabeth Rosas, author of Abrazando el Espiritu: Bracero Families Confront the US-Mexico Border, spoke to David-James Gonzoles of New Books in American Studies this weekend. Ana Rosas is Associate Professor and Director …
Read More >Tomás R. Jiménez, author of Replenished Ethnicity: Mexican Americans, Immigration, and Identity, recently contributed an op-ed to the L.A. Times on the immigration bill just passed in the Senate whose fate will …
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