Mexico Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/tag/mexico/ a magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship Sat, 17 Jan 2026 02:17:03 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.publicbooks.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/cropped-favicon-2-300x300.png Mexico Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/tag/mexico/ 32 32 Containment and Care in the Sonoran Desert https://www.publicbooks.org/containment-and-care-in-the-sonoran-desert/ Tue, 04 Jun 2024 15:00:55 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=56398 Prevention through deterrence did not prevent or deter migration. Instead, it corralled migration, hid it from view, and made it deadly.

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]]> “I’ve Embraced the Outsider Status”: A Conversation with Francisco Goldman https://www.publicbooks.org/ive-embraced-the-outsider-status-a-conversation-with-francisco-goldman/ Tue, 23 Apr 2024 15:00:09 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=55956 “That reality, such suffering, and violence, so much evil, was just shattering. Of course I witnessed so much courage too, and goodness, much of it doomed.”

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]]> To Understand Aztecs, Listen to Them https://www.publicbooks.org/to-understand-aztecs-listen-to-them/ Mon, 20 Nov 2023 16:00:47 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=54236 Have we who study Indigenous languages only succeeded in making things worse? And if this has happened, is there any way out?

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]]> Cristina Rivera Garza: “the traces that shelter us” https://www.publicbooks.org/cristina-rivera-garza-the-traces-that-shelter-us/ Thu, 05 Oct 2023 15:00:35 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=53608 One novelist spotlights an object, feeling, or sensation where the relay between past and present, or present and future, becomes visible.

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]]> Borders Kill, but Not the Passport Privileged https://www.publicbooks.org/borders-kill-but-not-the-passport-privileged/ Wed, 06 Sep 2023 15:00:41 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=53342 In her new book, Belén Fernández is driven by an urge to expose empire’s death-making machine, even if it means exposing her own absurd participation in it.

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]]> Growing Up in the World Made by Femicide https://www.publicbooks.org/growing-up-in-the-world-made-by-femicide/ Thu, 18 May 2023 15:00:02 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=52228 A dystopian buddy story shows misogynist violence emerging spontaneously—almost casually—from male camaraderie, from ennui, from dipshit youth.

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]]> Natalia Molina on “A Place at the Nayarit” https://www.publicbooks.org/natalia-molina-on-a-place-at-the-nayarit/ Wed, 15 Mar 2023 17:30:01 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=51660 Writing Latinos is a new podcast featuring interviews with Latino authors discussing their books and how their writing contributes to the ever-changing conversation about the meanings of latinidad.

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]]> Death in Mexico Means Something Different Now https://www.publicbooks.org/death-in-mexico-means-something-different-now/ Wed, 01 Mar 2023 16:00:32 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=51251 Mexico once cultivated a “special relationship” with death. But cultural globalization and rising violence is weakening that bond.

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]]> “No One Is There Who Has Somewhere Better to Be”: Talking Migration with Levi Vonk https://www.publicbooks.org/migration-levi-vonk-border-hacker/ Wed, 19 Oct 2022 15:00:23 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=50336 “The asylum system is a rejection of anything that disrupts American universalism. It’s kicking people out who offer an alternative view of the world.”

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]]> The US Arrested Her—Then She Changed Chicago https://www.publicbooks.org/mexican-chicago-housing-anita-villarreal/ Mon, 28 Feb 2022 16:00:04 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=47556 In the 1960s, Chicago’s white neighborhoods didn’t want Mexican Americans moving in. But one determined real estate broker changed everything.

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