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Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos Publishes Special Issue on “Mesoamerican Indigenous Mobilities in Mexico and the United States”
Jun 24 2023
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
#LASA2022: Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos Explores the Transnational Management of Colorado River Water Resources
May 05 2022
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
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
Mexican Studies / Estudios Mexicanos Announces Forthcoming Issue Focusing on Mexican Bicentennial of Independence
Sep 17 2021
Mexican Studies / Estudios Mexicanos joins in the celebration and critical reflection of Mexico’s bicentennial of independence. Hence we are glad to announce the forthcoming Thematic Section “Bicentennial Mexican Independence: New Critical Insights” to be published in our 37.3 issue in November. Thi
#LASA2021: Explore Free Content from UC Press’s Latin American Studies Journals
May 26 2021
We're marking the 2021 virtual conference of the Latin American Studies Association by offering a selection of free content from UC Press journals. Current History, the oldest publication devoted exclusively to international affairs published in the United States, devotes its February is
The Lessons of Mexico’s Tax Reform Efforts
Mar 26 2021
Mexican fiscal history is characterized by a constant: poor tax collection. Despite several attempts to reform the tax system, no change has resulted in a level of tax collection that would place Mexico close to that of countries at similar income levels. In "The Superfluous Congress: Executive Domi
#VirtualAHA: Free Content Offers from UC Press Journals
Jan 28 2021
We're continuing our #VirtualAHA promotions with additional limited-time free content offers from UC Press Journals. Click on the journal covers below for previous blog-exclusive content you may have missed and/or links to free articles/issues. To see additional offers made in conjunctio
Mexican Studies’s Incoming Editor Christian Zlolniski Discusses Expanded Scope for the Journal
Nov 21 2019
This post is published in conjunction with the 2019 American Anthropological Association conference in Vancouver, Canada. Check for other posts from the conference, and if you are attending #AAACASCA2019, don't miss Christian Zlolniski's panel "Familiar Strangers: The Making and Continuity of Canada