Category Archives: North America

March 7th, 2025: Mexican repatriation in the 1930s in Indiana

On this episode, the LMC welcomes freelance writer Nyki Duda and Emiliano Aguilar, a political and labor historian, to discuss Mexican repatriation in the 1930s in Indiana and how recent events mirror this dark chapter in American history almost a century later.

Emiliano Aguilar is also an assistant professor in the history department at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana.

January 31st, 2025: Arizona’s Ethnic Studies Ban Revisited

As a new Trump administration sets its sights on ending DEI and CRT, the LMC spends the hour with Nolan Cabrera, a professor of Educational Policy Studies and Practice @ the University of Arizona in Tucson, to revisit Arizona’s ethnic studies ban of the mid-2000s and how it remains relevant today.

Nolan Cabrera is also the author of, “Banned: The Fight for Mexican American Studies in the Streets and in the Courts.”