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US-Mexico Borderlands: War, Colonialism, and Imperial Formation
🕑 Added 2022-05-20 21:01:01 +0000 UTCProfessor Alex Avina returns to the show, this time to discuss the US-Mexico borderlands, its fascinating history, its deep relationship to colonialism and imperialist formation, the current Mexican president AMLO, the spectre of the border in american's minds, and much more.
Find more of Alex's work here: https://alexanderavina.com/
The American Maginot Line parts 1 and 2: https://fx.substack.com/p/the-american-maginot-line?r=12vpd&s=r
https://fx.substack.com/p/the-american-maginot-line-part-2?s=r
Comments
dotke
Phil Ochs' song "Bracero" jives with the ideas here on migrant labour and mistreatment, I'd encourage a listen
Quinn
Fascinating episode. Put so many things I kinda of connected into words. Love this
