“historians have broadened our understanding of colonial America by adopting both a trans-Atlantic and a trans-continental perspective, examining the interplay of Europe, Africa, and the Americas through the flow of goods, people, plants, animals, capital, and ideas.”

Colonial America: A Very Short Introduction

Alan Taylor

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Success of Indigenous Guatemalan construction workers in Brooklyn forming a workplace safety committee is a testament to the power of collective action + the potential for systemic change, inspiring hope in the fight for safer, more equitable workplaces. documentedny.com/2024/04/23/imm…

“The most significant reason points to a Mexican government crackdown on people transiting the country, which is bringing increasing reports of harm to migrants. Large numbers of people are currently bottled up throughout Mexico.”

This springtime reduction in migration is very unusual.

(See WOLA's piece 2 weeks ago: 'Why is migration declining at the U.S.-Mexico border in early 2024?' wola.org/analysis/why-i…)

I just submitted my review of Margaret Power’s Solidarity Across the Americas! I’ll let you all know when it is published—so refreshing to read new perspectives on Puerto Rican nationalism 🇵🇷! … Y leer sobre Lolita Lebrón es siempre muy emocionante ✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿 #PuertoRicanStudies

Rodriguez highlights how different members of the same mixed-status families mediate undocumented statuses while maintaining the collective whole of a family:

The Color of Asylum: The Racial Politics of Safe Haven in Brazil

By Katherine Jensen

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Contested Americans: Mixed-Status Families in Anti-Immigrant Times

by Cassaundra Rodriguez

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A lot happening that was not on my 2024 bingo card, this included: being a finalist for the C. Wright Mills Award!! The Society for the Study of Social Problems Huge honor to have #ColorOfAsylum recognized. Can’t wait to celebrate with all these amazing authors in August.

Students of Gaza extend their appreciation to American students for their solidarity during the war. They express profound thanks to over 120 university campuses across the United States, as well as numerous demonstrations in Europe, for standing in solidarity with their cause.

The History Wars and Property Law:
Conquest and Slavery as Foundational to the Field

“legal scholarship…has largely overlooked the role that laws and legal institutions played in facilitating the production of the two preeminent market commodities in the colonial and early Republic periods: expropriated lands and enslaved people.”

my pandemic baby yalelawjournal.org/article/the-hi…

Mae Ngai 💚

Receipts.

Stanford University Press has released my first book’s cover. Hope you like it. I truly love it! Stay tuned. It is expected to come out in Jan 2025. Please recommend your library to purchase one if possible. Stanford Press Carnegie Mellon University Dietrich College

A dream of an interdisciplinary panel: an anthropologist, a historian, a sociologist and a political scientist discussing #ExitWoundsBook Watson Institute. I will watch this on repeat when I need to hear that all that effort I put into the book matters

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Delve into the complexities of intergroup relations in contexts of immigration during the second panel of the CMS #InternationalResearchConference on May 15, 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM, at the Liu Institute for Global Issues.

👉 Register now: migration.ubc.ca/events/event/a…
#MigrationResearch

“The child welfare system is a critical area where the government has historically and presently overstepped, and we must understand the implications of this.”