The Mexican Studies Research Collective is broadly conceived as a space for academic dialogue, exchange, and collaboration in the fields of Mexican literary and cultural studies.
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Join us for a book presentation and conversation with David Tenorio, author of Queer Relajo: Feeling the Nightscapes of Mexicanidad. September 24, 2026 from 3-4pm CT Available from University of Michigan Press In 2015, Mexico City declared itself a “gay-friendly” city and followed up with a gay tourist guide and new laws permitting changes to…
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by Mary Elizabeth Reynolds Bison Books, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press On May 3, 1887, an earthquake struck near the U.S.-Mexico border. Forty-three people died in Bavispe, Mexico; sixty miles north in Arizona, buildings swayed and a few collapsed, but no one was killed. Today, every person in southern Arizona lives with the…
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by Andrew Paxman University of North Carolina Press An insider’s account of the rise and fall of Mexican journalism since 1980. In the first narrative history of Mexico’s contemporary press, Andrew Paxman recounts the evolution of print and online media between the 1980s and the present. From showing widespread subservience toward authority to playing a…
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by Juan Ignacio Mora University of North Carolina Press Cultivating sugar beets, workers’ rights, and punk rock The fields and orchards of the Midwest have offered seasonal agricultural work for countless Latinx migrant laborers. For more than a century, Mexican, Mexican American, and Puerto Rican migrants converged in the heartland to perform some of the…
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by Julieta Pestarino J. Paul Getty Museum Presenting nearly 150 pictures made between 1920 and 2017, Instante/revelación highlights the work of thirteen renowned photographers who feature prominently in the history of the medium in Mexico, including Lola and Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Graciela Iturbide, and Pablo Ortiz Monasterio. Through a dynamic selection of images, the publication…
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by Livia K. Stone Duke University Press Without Masters is an anthropological history of the radical ethical and political principle of autogestión as it traveled around the world in the twentieth century and came to be popularized in Mexico City in the early 2000s. A political term that first arose in 1962 Algeria traveled across…
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by Alberto McKelligan Hernández University of California Press I Want to Dance with You focuses on five contemporary Mexican women artists—Gina Arizpe, Melissa García, Nuria Montiel, Brenda Anayatzin Ortiz, and Laura Valencia—analyzing their artistic projects since the early 2000s as a response to escalations in the Mexican drug war, feminicide, state-sanctioned violence, and globalization. Employing…
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by Catherine Christensen Gwin University of Nebraska Press The United States–Mexico border has been a contested space and a political and ideological apparatus since the early twentieth century. While today we think of the border as a method to exclude people from the United States, the earliest curfews at the line between the two countries…
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by Keitlyn Alcántara University of Florida Press Inside the farming traditions that have supported food sovereignty and community resistance in past and present Tlaxcala In this book, Keitlyn Alcántara draws on research from the state of Tlaxcala in Mexico to describe how its people resisted imperial domination and survived centuries of upheaval. Threatened by embargoes…
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by Ulices Piña University of Nebraska Press In Rebellious Citizens Ulices Piña shows that democracy in Mexico has never been the exclusive domain of elites, nor confined to the ballot box. Focusing on the aftermath of the Mexican Revolution of 1910–20, Piña explores how citizens forged a substantive democratic culture in the crucible of three…
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