Mexico

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• SOURCE: Time
  9/27/2019
  

  'I Cry All the Time.' A Century After 15 Mexican Men and Boys Were Massacred in Texas, Their Descendants Want Recognition

  by Jasmine Aguilera

  A century after a massacre of Mexican men by white Texans, these families are speaking up and telling the world what happened. 

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• SOURCE: Dallas Morning News
  8/25/19
  

  Can you name the Republican president who risked his career for Mexico?

  by Michael Hogan

  A failure to teach the full and complex 19th century history of the U.S. and Mexico in U.S. classrooms has resulted in ignorance that helps feed anti-Mexico prejudice. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  7/22/19
  

  When the American right loved Mexico

  by Mario Del Pero and Vanni Pettinà

  Back when conservatives exalted free markets, our neighbor to the south was a vital ally.

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• SOURCE: History
  7/12/2019
  

  The U.S. Deported a Million of Its Own Citizens to Mexico During the Great Depression

  Up to 1.8 million people of Mexican descent—most of them American-born—were rounded up in informal raids and deported in an effort to reserve jobs for white people.

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• 4/7/19
  

  The Original Border Wall

  by Robert T. C. Goodwin

  Spanish Presidios and Mexican Leather-Jackets in 1772

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• SOURCE: NPR
  3/10/19
  

  Archaeologists Find Trove Of Maya Artifacts Dating Back 1,000 Years

  This collection may help researchers in their quest to learn more information about the rise and fall of the ancient Maya civilization.

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• SOURCE: Ruidoso News
  2/14/19
  

  Cynthia E. Orozco presents at Latino history Texas symposium

  Orozco is the author of "No Mexicans, Women or Dogs, the Rise of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement," a history of the origins of LULAC.

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• SOURCE: The Daily Californian
  2/15/19
  

  Professor Juana María Rodríguez talks sex work’s history and the internet’s future

  Although this humanities research project might read to many as a niche project in a small ethnic studies department, its cultural, political and technological implications loom large.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  1/10/19
  

  Pancho Villa, prostitutes and spies: The U.S.-Mexico border wall’s wild origins

  President Trump’s visit to the border to demand $5.7 billion for a wall marks another chapter in the boundary’s tortured history

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian.com
  1/3/19
  

  Archaeologists Find First-Known Temple of ‘Flayed Lord’ in Mexico

  While the rituals associated with the site may not be entirely clear, identifying the ruins of a temple to the deity Xipe Tóte is an important discovery

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• 11/18/18
  

  What’s More Deadly to Mexicans than the Drug War? Diabetes.

  by Alyshia Gálvez

  Here’s why that should concern Americans in the wake of the negotiations over the US, Mexico, Canada Trade Agreement.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  10-1-18
  

  50 Years After a Student Massacre, Mexico Reflects on Democracy

  Mexico’s student movement erupted so suddenly in the summer of 1968 that it seemed to catch even its followers by surprise.

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• 7/15/18
  

  Mexicans Made America—Why Do We Treat Them Like Alien Invaders?

  by John Tutino

  If we knew the history of Mexico better, we wouldn’t.

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian
  6-28-18 (accessed)
  

  The Raging Controversy at the Border Began With This Incident 100 Years Ago

  In Nogales, Arizona, the United States and Mexico agreed to build walls separating their countries.

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• 9-24-17
  

  Mexico Hasn’t Been at the Center of US Politics Like It Is Now Since 1848

  by Peter Guardino

  Alas, the debate today is marked by the same strand of bigotry.

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• SOURCE: PRI
  4-29-17
  

  This underground railroad took slaves to freedom in Mexico

  Slaves in the US famously took the underground railroad north into free states and Canada, but a similar path existed to the south into Mexico.

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• SOURCE: History channel
  2-22-17
  

  Did Salmonella Kill Off the Aztecs?

  After Spanish conquistadors arrived in Mexico in 1519, one of the worst epidemics in human history tore through the once-mighty Aztec civilization.

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• 3-5-17
  

  Here’s How NAFTA and the Border Look from Mexico’s Perspective

  by Aileen Teague

  It’s been lost in the propaganda of the presidential campaign.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  1-24-17
  

  Why Trump’s wall with Mexico is so popular, and why it won’t work

  by David Cook Martín

  Building walls has rarely has achieved its intended effect, and may result in wasted resources and lost opportunities for the United States.

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• 1-15-17
  

  Why We Need to Be Worried About Mexico

  by Ronald L. Feinman

  Trump’s policies risk plunging us into conflict.