Hector Amaya is Professor of Media Studies at University of Virginia. He is currently finishing a project on the transformations to public culture in Mexico due to drug violence. His last book is Citizenship Excess: Latinos/as, Media, and the Nation (2013).
Hector Amaya
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The Big Picture: The Promise of Sanctuary
In June 2015, during the early days of his candidacy during the Republican primaries, Donald Trump declared: “I will build a great, great wall on our southern border, and I will make Mexico pay for that wall. Mark my words.” These sentences seemed to signify a new low in anti-Latino speech, but they are not new. […]
