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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

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

by Lynn Stephen and Laura Velasco-Ortiz, guest editors of the special issueIn a special issue of Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos, called "Mesoamerican Indigenous Mobilities in Mexico and the United States," we look at how Indigenous people from Mesoamerica move in modern times. We study h

UC Press is proud to publish award-winning authors and books across many disciplines. Below are several of our February 2023 award winners. Please join us in celebrating these scholars by sharing the news!Kaveh Askari 2023 Katherine Singer Kovàcs Book AwardSociety for Cinema and Medi

By Yu Tokunaga, author of Transborder Los Angeles: An Unknown Transpacific History of Japanese-Mexican Relations“Lo voy a comprar 👏 Felicidades!!!” I recently received this comment from my Costa Rican friend after posting on Facebook about my new book, Transborder Los Angeles: An Unknown Transpa

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

Mexican Studies/ Estudios Mexicanos’s current issue includes the article “Valle Imperial/valle de Mexicali, 1910–28: su impacto en la cuenca del río Colorado y la disputa por los usos sociales” by Marco Antonio Samaniego López, which examines the controversial negotiations between Mexico and the Uni

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

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

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