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The Podcast about History, Politics, and Culture in Greater Mexico

Ben Smith and Jerry Garcia, MSU Dept. of History

  • Jun 18, 2009 LATEST EPISODE
  • infrequent NEW EPISODES
  • 49m AVG DURATION
  • 6 EPISODES


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Greater Mexico podcast no. 6 June 2009: ICE and Immigration Reform

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 18, 2009 70:15


In this month’s podcast we interview Rosalinda Guillen, founder of Community2Community, a women-led food justice and immigration cooperative from Bellingham, Washington.

The Obama Election and the Chicano/Mexicano Community – The Lansing/Michigan Perspective: Greater Mexico Podcast 4, Part 1

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 16, 2009 41:39


In this podcast we examine the effects of the Obama election on the Chicano/Mexicano community in the Greater Lansing and Michigan areas. We are fortunate to interview MSU and Lansing’s very own Ernesto Todd Mireles. Todd is  a Ph.D student in American and Chicano/Latino Studies looking at social mobilization strategies in the Americas. Moreover, Todd […]

Mexican and Chicano popular music with Miguel Angel Cabanas: Greater Mexico Podcast 3, Part 2 (Mexican corridos)

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 15, 2008 47:02


In this month’s podcast we are joined by Miguel Angel Cabanas, associate professor of Spanish and Portuguese literature at Michigan State University. During the podcast Professor Cabanas talks to us about the history of the corrido, its roots in the Mexican Revolution and its modern evolution. He is also kind enough to sing some of […]

Mexican and Chicano popular music with Michelle Habell-Pallan: Greater Mexico Podcast 3

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 24, 2008 60:32


In this month’s podcast Jerry Garcia talks to Professor Michelle Habell-Pallan about Chicano and Mexican pop music and pop culture from from rock and roll through punk to hip hop. Professor Michelle Habell-Pallan is an associate professor of the Women’s Study Center at the University of Washington. She is author of Loca Motion: The Travels […]

Mexico and the “War on Drugs”: Greater Mexico podcast #2

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 9, 2008 42:56


This podcast looks at the two overriding issues of Mexican politics today – the ramifications of the 2006 presidential election and President Calderon’s so-called “War on Drugs”. We speak to leading political historian, Wil Pansters, a professor at Utrecht University, the Netherlands, and author of numerous books on Mexican political history including Caciquismo in Twentieth-Century […]

Mexicano and Chicano Cinema with Professor Charles Ramirez Berg: Greater Mexico Podcast #1

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 11, 2008 36:41


In this podcast we look at the history of Mexicans and Chicanos in Hollywood and the Mexican film industry. We also examine the current fashion for Mexican actors and directors in Hollywood today. We are fortunate enough to have an interview with one of the leading scholars in the field of Mexican and Chicano cinema, […]

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