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Q&A with Alberto Garcia: First-gen Scholar and Accomplished UC Press Author
Jun 22 2023
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
Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos Announces Early Career Article Award Winners
May 16 2022
The editorial committee of Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos is pleased to announce the award for best article by an early-career scholar published in 2020-2021. The award aims to recognize contributions of the highest academic quality in the multidisciplinary field of Mexican studies for the origi
How did Women Participate in Mexico’s Independence Movement?
Nov 23 2021
Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos's current issue features a thematic section on the bicentennial of Mexican independence, which highlights the contribution of political actors generally ignored in official tributes to heroic figures. Specifically, the issue includes articles that examine the parti
Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos Announces Keynote Address on Mexican Independence
Oct 21 2021
Before 1810, silver capitalism made New Spain the richest kingdom in the Americas. Then in 1808, the judicial regime pivotal to stabilizing its inequities fell to militarized powers. Two years later, insurgents took arms to claim sustenance and then land, breaking commercial cultivation, mining, and
Scholar Explores Mexican Women’s Early Use of Sound Technologies
Oct 07 2021
Edison phonograph and Gold Moulded records, from a 1909 advertisementAt the turn of the previous century, during the Porfiriato, Mexico lived through a time of technological revolutions that modified ways of perceiving time, distance, and sounds. Consider the phonograph, created by Thomas Alva E
Author Spotlight: Silvia Arrom on writing about the famous Mexican Independence Heroine La Güera Rodríguez
Sep 27 2021
September 27th, 2021 marks the 200-year anniversary of the day Mexico achieved independence. In honor of the date, we reached out to Silvia Marina Arrom to discuss her new book, La Güera Rodríguez: The Life and Legends of a Mexican Independence Heroine. María Ignacia Rodríguez de Velasco y Osori
Pacific Historical Review Announces First Double Award Winner
Aug 11 2021
Pacific Historical Review is congratulating Yu Tokunaga, Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, who has won both the W. Turrentine Jackson (Article) Prize and the Louis Knott Memorial Award for his article, "Japanese Farmers, Mexican Workers, an
Fighting Inside and Outside of the Ring: How Luchadoras Challenged Gender Norms in 1950s Mexico
Apr 26 2021
Marjolein Van Bavel's "Morbo, lucha libre, and Television: The Ban of Women Wrestlers from Mexico City in the 1950s"—published in the current issue of Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos and which we invite you to read for free for a limited time— examines the emergence of the ban on women wrestlers