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 Pablo Zavala, author of Forging a Mexican People: Collective Subjectivities in Postrevolutionary Print Culture, 1917–1968. April 21, 2026, 3-4pm CT Available from The University of Arizona Press. A new lens on conceptions of the Mexican state and the people Forging a Mexican People shows how illustrated…
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by Joshua Mentanko University of North Carolina Press Histories of Indigenous healing and Western medicine in Chiapas In the mid-twentieth century, Mexico became a hub for global experiments in public health and social science. Best known as the birthplace of the Green Revolution, Mexico also pioneered the first large-scale effort to train community health workers…
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by Mary E. Mendoza University of North Carolina Press The first environmental history to chronicle the construction of race, fencing, and policing at the US-Mexico border When most people picture the US-Mexico border, they think of walls, fences, concrete, and wire. But in this first history of how the environment influenced physical boundary-making between the…
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by Luis Ramos Voltaire Foundation & Liverpool University Press This book examines how three exiled Jesuits from colonial Mexico—Rafael Landívar, Francisco Clavijero, and Pedro Márquez—shaped the discourse of continental emancipation from Spain. By considering their works in relation to critical debates about the root causes of the international expulsion and suppression of the Jesuits and…
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by Carlos G. Vélez-Ibáñez The University of Arizona Press Carlos G. Vélez-Ibáñez’s latest work, The Rise of Necro/Narco Citizenship investigates the intricate and often harrowing dynamics that define the borderlands between the United States, Mexico, and beyond. This groundbreaking book provides a comprehensive cultural, economic, social, and political-ecological analysis, illustrating how various forms of violence…
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by José Ángel Maldonado Clemson University Press In a book that combines memoir and cultural criticism of visual media, public rhetoric, and memory texts, José Ángel Maldonado reflects on the subjectivities he embodies—mestizo, epileptic, and exile—while engaging in a critique of the various popular texts he encounters while travelling through Mexico after living in the…
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by Kathi Weeks Duke University Press Abolition Archives, Feminist Futures takes up the work of three iconic feminist thinkers—Angela Davis, Shulamith Firestone, and Donna Haraway—to ask how each author’s vision of work, the family, and the carceral state can expand contemporary feminism’s ability to structurally analyze social problems. Kathi Weeks examines the archive of this…
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by Amy De’Ath Stanford University Press In this daring study, Amy De’Ath develops a new type of literary criticism attuned to the way our lives are shaped by capital’s impersonal compulsions – by what happens “behind our backs.” Challenging the symptomatic interpretive methods of Western Marxism, De’Ath argues that value-critical accounts of Marx’s work enable…
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Edited by Jokubas Salyga and Kayhan Valadbaygi Bristol University Press Bringing together leading scholars and activists, this edited collection calls for a return to the ‘mode of production debate’ to address often-overlooked dimensions: gender, race, and Eurocentrism. The concept of mode of production is placed in dialogue with Marxist debates on domestic labour, racial capitalism…
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Join us on Thursday, March 5, 2026 at 3-4pm CT for a work-in-progress workshop with Matt Johnson (New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology) on “The Maya Tourist: Archaeological Tourism and Revolutionary Cultural Politics in Early-Twentieth-Century Yucatán.” Reading materials will be circulated with registered participants a week in advance. This chapter-in-progress studies the cultural politics…
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