Agrarian crossings

In the 1930s and 1940s, rural reformers in the United States and Mexico waged unprecedented campaigns to remake their countrysides in the name of agrarian justice and agricultural productivity. Agrarian Crossings tells the story of how these campaigns were conducted in dialogue with one another a...

Catholic women and mexican politics, 1750–1940

How women preserved the power of the Catholic Church in Mexican political lifeWhat accounts for the enduring power of the Catholic Church, which withstood widespread and sustained anticlerical opposition in Mexico? Margaret Chowning locates an answer in the untold story of how the Mexican Catholi...

Citizen illegal

Citizen Illegal is a book composed in the space between Mexico & America. It is a celebration of Chicano joy, a shout against erasure, and a vibrant re-imagining of Mexican American life.

Code work

How Mexican and Latinx hackers apply concepts from coding to their lived experiencesIn Code Work, Héctor Beltrán examines Mexican and Latinx coders’ personal strategies of self-making as they navigate a transnational economy of tech work. Beltrán shows how these hackers apply concepts from the co...

Dying to live

The real story--and human price--of US/Mexico border enforcement.

First world, ha, ha, ha!

General vallejo and the advent of the americans

Have black lives ever mattered?

A powerful indictment on the history of police violence against people of color, from slavery to today's Black Lives Matter.

I couldn't even imagine that they would kill us

Harrowing personal narratives describing how Mexican authorities killed, injured, and disappeared scores of students and others in a still-unsolved crime.

Indigenous affinities

Reveals how Mayan and Palestinian narratives connect through shared Indigenous struggles, proposing ‘affinity’ as a framework for global solidarityInspired by and committed to global Indigenous solidarity and South-South encounters, Indigenous Affinities examines the multifaceted connection betwe...

Line in the sand

The first transnational history of the U.S.-Mexico borderLine in the Sand details the dramatic transformation of the western U.S.-Mexico border from its creation at the end of the Mexican-American War in 1848 to the emergence of the modern boundary line in the first decades of the twentieth centu...

Lineas conectadas

Two-volume bilingual anthology of Mexican and American Poets, produced in partnership between NEA/Mexican government

Mexico

A Washington Post Best Nonfiction Book of 2025From acclaimed and prize-winning historian Paul Gillingham, a rich and vibrant history of one of the world’s most diverse, politically ground-breaking, and influential of countriesAt the beginning of his masterful work of scholarship and narration, Pa...

Mexico's resilient journalists

Julieta Brambila provides a ground-level view of how Mexican journalists have navigated a perilous environment, offering insight into how they protect themselves while reporting on the most critical and sensitive subjects.

Missions begin with blood

Winner, 2022 Frank S. and Elizabeth D. Brewer PrizeWhile the idea that successful missions needed Indigenous revolts and missionary deaths seems counterintuitive, this book illustrates how it became a central logic of frontier colonization in Spanish North America. Missions Begin with Blood argue...

New world of indigenous resistance

Interviews with Chomsky accompanied by commentaries by indigenous organizers on globalization and resistance in the Americas.

Riot, rebellion, and revolution

The gang paradox

Robert J. Durán analyzes the impact of deportation, incarceration, and racialized perceptions of criminality on Latino families and youth along the U.S.-Mexico border. He finds significantly less gang membership and activity than common fearmongering claims would have us believe.

The mexican heartland

A major new history of capitalism from the perspective of the indigenous peoples of Mexico, who sustained and resisted it for centuriesThe Mexican Heartland provides a new history of capitalism from the perspective of the landed communities surrounding Mexico City. In a sweeping analytical narrat...

The mexican revolution

Why did the Mexican Revolution happen? What makes it distinctive? Was it even a revolution at all?

To die in mexico

On-the-ground reporting and behind-the-scene stories from Mexico’s drug war by Mexico-based journalist, John Gibler.

Torn from the world

The real-life story of a political insurgent who was disappeared by the Mexican Army and miraculously escaped to tell the tale.

Troubled lands

A landmark book—the first complete publication of Langston Hughes’s translations of thirty-three stories by eighteen Mexican and Cuban writersIn late 1934, Langston Hughes, already established as a leading voice of literary Black America, traveled to Mexico City, where he stayed for more than fiv...

Zapantera negra

An encounter between Emory Douglas of the Black Panthers and autonomous Indigenous and Zapatista communities helps us understand the role of revolutionary art in times of distress.

Zapatista spring

The revolution or revolutionary charity? All is not as it seems deep inside the Zapatista rebellion.