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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

by Gema Kloppe-Santamaría, author of In the Vortex of Violence: Lynching, Extralegal Justice, and the State in Post-Revolutionary MexicoIn November of 2004, three federal police officers were lynched in the neighborhood of San Juan Ixtayopan in Tláhuac, Mexico City. The policemen, dressed in pla

Ism, Ism, Ism / Ismo, Ismo, Ismo is the first comprehensive, United States–based film program and catalogue to treat the full breadth of Latin America’s vibrant experimental film production. Accompanying the film series, the catalogue was co-published in association with the Los Angeles Filmforum, a