The Podcast about History, Politics, and Culture in Greater Mexico
Ben Smith and Jerry Garcia, MSU Dept. of History
In this month’s podcast we interview Rosalinda Guillen, founder of Community2Community, a women-led food justice and immigration cooperative from Bellingham, Washington.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]