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Masha Salazkina, author of "Romancing Yesenia" and "World Socialist Cinema" discusses how the 70's Mexican melodrama "Yesenia" became the highest grossing movie in the history of Soviet film exhibition—and what we can learn by studying popular culture on a global scale.

Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos incoming editor is interested in continuing the journal's foundational mission, while finding new ways to increase MSEM’s visibility throughout Mexico and to intensify interdisciplinary dialogue within the pages of MSEM.

In Mexico today, thousands of families are searching for loved ones who have disappeared amid the violence associated with “the war on drugs.” Trade agreements like NAFTA created conditions that allowed criminal organizations to thrive—and ordinary people have paid the price.

American guns have entangled the lives of people on both sides of the US-Mexico border in a vicious circle of violence. After treating wounded migrants and refugees seeking safety in the United States, anthropologist Ieva Jusionyte boldly embarked on a journey in the opposite direction—following the

Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos (MSEM) issue 39.2 features a special thematic section on "The New Left in Mexico." To enhance discussion around the issue, the journal's editor asked renowned Mexican sociologist and anthropologist Roger Bartra to share his thoughts on the issue based on his person

By Víctor Zúñiga, co-author of The 0.5 Generation: Children Moving from the United States to MexicoOur research on children migrating from the United States to Mexico began 25 years ago in the state of Georgia. There, we were observing the integration of Mexican-origin families and their childre

Through a rigorous ethnographic inquiry into the material foundations of sexual identity, The Struggle to Be Gay—in Mexico, for Example makes a compelling argument for the centrality of social class in gay life. Known for his writings on the construction of sexual identities, anthropologist and cult

Alberto García is Assistant Professor of History at San José State University. Abandoning Their Beloved Land offers an essential new history of the Bracero Program, a bilateral initiative that allowed Mexican men to work in the United States as seasonal contract farmworkers from 1942 to 1964. Us

Tracing the paths of figures like Black American artist Elizabeth Catlett, Indian anti-colonial activist M.N. Roy, Mexican revolutionary leader Ricardo Flores Magón, Okinawan migrant organizer Paul Shinsei Kōchi, and Soviet feminist Alexandra Kollontai, Arise! reveals how activists around the world

By Michael Dear, author of Border Witness: Reimagining the US-Mexico Borderlands through FilmOver the past two decades, there has been an explosion of film releases about the US-Mexico borderlands. Not surprisingly, many have addressed issues of drug trafficking and cartels as well as immigr