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Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos Publishes Special Issue on “Mesoamerican...

by Lynn Stephen and Laura Velasco-Ortiz, guest editors of the special issue In a special issue of Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos, called “Mesoamerican Indigenous Mobilities in Mexico and the United...

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Explore Sociology Journals from UC Press at #ASA2023

As one of the world's most forward-thinking publishers, UC Press gives voice, reach, and impact to innovative research and exceptional scholarship.

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Scaling Migrant Worker Rights: How Advocates Collaborate and Contest State Power

By Xochitl Bada and Shannon Gleeson Low-wage labor in the United States is characterized by egregiously low minimum wage standards, insufficient health and safety protections, and a civil rights regime...

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Q&A with Seth Holmes, author of Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies

Now updated with a new prologue and epilogue, Seth Holmes’ bestselling book Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States, With a Foreword by Philippe Bourgois provides an...

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Q& A with Alexander Alberro and Jennifer A. González, Co-Editors of Studies...

Announcing an expanded series and new co-editor for Studies on Latin American and Latinx Art

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Q&A with Roger Lancaster, author ofThe Struggle to Be Gay-in Mexico, for Example

Through a rigorous ethnographic inquiry into the material foundations of sexual identity, The Struggle to Be Gay—in Mexico, for Example makes a compelling argument for the centrality of social class in...

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Latin American & Latinx Visual Culture Announces New Co-Editors-in-Chief

We are pleased to introduce the incoming co-editors-in-chief for Latin American & Latinx Visual Culture who will assume their positions in January 2024 after the journal’s founding editor-in-chief,...

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Q&A with Alberto Garcia: First-gen Scholar and Accomplished UC Press Author

Alberto García is Assistant Professor of History at San José State University. Abandoning Their Beloved Land offers an essential new history of the Bracero Program, a bilateral initiative that allowed...

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The Untold Story of Children Moving from the United States to Mexico

By Víctor Zúñiga, co-author of The 0.5 Generation: Children Moving from the United States to Mexico Our research on children migrating from the United States to Mexico began 25 years ago in …

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The New Left in Mexico: A Topic Up for Debate

Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos (MSEM) issue 39.2 features a special thematic section on “The New Left in Mexico.” To enhance discussion around the issue, the journal’s editor asked renowned Mexican...

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