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Legacies of Japanese American Incarceration
Brandon Shimoda’s book about the memorialization of Japanese internment camps also speaks to the brutal system of migrant detention that continues to this day.
by
Francisco Cantú
via
New York Review of Books
on
April 3, 2025
A Legacy of Plunder
In its reexamination of narratives about the expropriation of Native land, Michael Witgen’s work changes how Native people are in the arc of American history.
by
Francisco Cantú
via
New York Review of Books
on
May 30, 2024
An American Story
Kelly Lytle Hernández’s new book chronicles the tumultuous period leading up to the Mexican Revolution, casting the border as ground zero for continental change.
by
Francisco Cantú
via
New York Review of Books
on
March 9, 2023
Human History and the Hunger for Land
From Bronze Age farmers to New World colonialists, the stories of struggle to claim more ground have shaped where and how we live.
by
Francisco Cantú
via
The New Yorker
on
January 11, 2021
When the Frontier Becomes the Wall
What the border fight means for one of the nation’s most potent, and most violent, myths.
by
Francisco Cantú
via
The New Yorker
on
March 4, 2019
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The Bloody History of Border Militias Runs Deep — and Law Enforcement Is Part of It
The West's history is full of stories of white Americans taking the law into their own hands to beat back nonwhite populations.
by
Ryan Deveraux
via
The Intercept
on
May 23, 2019
What the Birth of the Sanctuary Movement Teaches Us Today
The birth of the sanctuary movement some 45 years ago can teach us a lot about how to respond to today’s attacks on immigrants.
by
Kyle Paoletta
via
The Nation
on
April 10, 2025
The Wild West Meets the Southern Border
At first glance, frontier towns near the U.S.-Mexico border seem oblivious both of history and of the current political reality.
by
Valeria Luiselli
via
The New Yorker
on
June 3, 2019
American Extremism Has Always Flowed from the Border
Donald Trump says there is “a crisis of the soul” at the border. He is right, though not in the way he thinks.
by
Greg Grandin
via
Boston Review
on
January 9, 2019