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CLAS Chair Harley Shaiken introduces this issue of the Review.
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Michelle Bachelet at Berkeley, May 2010.
(photo by Jim Block) |
The Chilean Path to Progressive Change
Michelle Bachelet reflects on her time in office as president of Chile and on the challenges facing Latin America’s young democracies.
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The U.S.-Mexico Futures Forum, Zacatecas, 2010.
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Immigration: The Long and Winding Road
Graduate student Brian Palmer-Rubin reports on the immigration session of the 2010 U.S.–Mexico Futures Forum which featured Amalia García Medina, Governor of Zacatecas; Maria Echaveste, co-founder of the Nueva Vista Group and lecturer and Berkeley Law; and Tamar Jacoby, president and CEO of ImmigrationWorks USA.
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Forum participants with Jerez residents.
(photo by Dionicia Ramos) |
Immigration Viewed From the Other Side
Graduate student Jude Joffe-Block covers a special session of the 2010 U.S.–Mexico Futures in which participants met with some of the townspeople of Jerez, Zacatecas.
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Signs welcoming people to Arizona.
(photo by Melanie Velez) |
We’re All Arizonans Now — The Fallout of SB 1070
Tamar Jacoby, president and CEO of ImmigrationWorks USA, analyzes the political repercussions of Arizona’s recently passed immigration law.
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Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas at Berkeley, 2010.
(photo by Beth Perry) |
Cárdenas: Making and Teaching History
Graduate student Jude Joffe-Block reports on Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas’ stay in Berkeley.
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Villa and Zapata in Mexico City.
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The Promise and Legacy of the Mexican Revolution
Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas offers his perspective on the Mexican Revolution and what it means for Mexico today.
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Detail from the Detroit Industry Murals by Rivera.
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Mutual Admiration, Mutual Exploitation: Rivera, Ford and the Detroit Industry Murals
Director of the Detroit Institute of Arts Graham W.J. Beal provides an analysis both of the history behind Diego Rivera’s Detroit Industry Murals and the murals themselves.
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Leon Trotsky and Diego Rivera.
(Bernard Wolfe Slide Collection,
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Exile and Murder in Mexico
Hoover Institution research fellow Bertrand M. Patenaude describes Leon Trotsky’s last days in Mexico.
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President Felipe Calderón speaks at a ceremony honoring heroes of the War of Independence.
(Photo by Fernando Castillo/Latin Content/Getty Images.) |
Limited Independence, Limited Democracy
Graduate students Lucas Novaes and Sinaia Urrusti Frenk report on historian Lorenzo Meyer’s irreverent assessment of the legacy of Mexico’s War of Independence and Revolution.
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The Los Ebanos ferry on the border.
(Photo by Jerry Peek/photomondiale.com.) |
Permeable Membrane
Journalist and Berkeley lecturer Tyche Hendricks discusses the complexity of the U.S.–Mexico borderlands.
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A hawksbill turtle that may outlive governments.
(Photo by Neil O'Halloran.) |
Surviving the Political Storms
Visiting professor Paul Steinberg examines the difficulties faced by environmental reformers in states subject to chronic political turnover.
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An anti-domestic violence poster in Guatemala.
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Refuge From Femicide: Facing Gendered Violence in Guatemala
Graduate student Anthony Fontes reports on Karen Musalo’s talk on the case of Rodi Alvarado, a Guatemalan woman who sought asylum in the United States to escape her abusive husband.
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Handbill from the Mexican Revolution.
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Cantos Populares Maderistas
Popular songs formed an important cultural backdrop to the Mexican Revolution.
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