12
Jun
Reflections on 25 years of Refried Elvis (Part 1 of 2)
Celebrating 25 years of REFRIED ELVIS with the first of two posts focusing on the monumental book.
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10
Jun
Q&A with Chelsea Schields, author of Offshore Attachments
Offshore Attachments reveals how the contested management of sex and race transformed the Caribbean into a crucial site in the global oil economy. By the mid-twentieth century, the Dutch islands of Curaçao …
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Jun
Why We Need a Handbook for Practicing Asylum
Practicing Asylum brings together experienced expert witnesses and immigration attorneys to highlight best practices and strategies for giving expert testimony in asylum cases. As the scale and severity of violence in Latin …
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Jun
Recovering the transnational history of the Sandinista Revolution
By Eline van Ommen, author of Nicaragua Must Survive: Sandinista Revolutionary Diplomacy in the Global Cold War When I submitted my dissertation in 2019, my supervisor gave me the mug that had …
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Jun
The Chilling Truth Behind Silicon Valley’s Surveillance of Immigrants
By Melissa Villa-Nicholas, author of Data Borders: How Silicon Valley Is Building an Industry around Immigrants Around 2018, I started to read reports about increasing information technology surveillance at the U.S.-Mexico border …
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Apr
Q&A with Ieva Jusionyte, author of Exit Wounds
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 …
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Aug
Is Cuba the World’s Most Sustainable Country?
By Gustav Cederlöf, author of The Low-Carbon Contradiction: Energy Transition, Geopolitics, and the Infrastructural State in Cuba When lightning set 40 percent of Cuba’s oil reserves ablaze last year—a thunderstorm hit its …
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