Over the last 150 years or so engineers, farmers, scientists, and many others around the
globe have gained access to the waters that lie underground with drilling technology, pumps …

At the beginning of World War II, the United States and Mexico launched the bracero
program, a series of labor agreements that brought Mexican men to work temporarily in US …

Capitalism is characterized by private ownership, coordination through markets, and
decentralized decision-making by buyers and sellers rather than the state. Capitalism is …

In Watering the Revolution Mikael D. Wolfe transforms our understanding of Mexican
agrarian reform through an environmental and technological history of water management in …

Studies of the shifting social organization and geography of global garment production have
been critical to the development of the commodity chains framework as an important field of …

US-Mexico reconciliation and peaceful coexistence. Four of the Border Patrol watchtowers
in El Paso were dismantled—a small gesture but symbolically rich. A nearly century-old …

Derrick Bell's interest convergence thesis is a seminal framework to analyze social change
within critical race theory. While interest convergence's influence has grown, two …

Maria Paredes was one of the first Mexican American teacher's aides employed by the La
Feria School District in the 1960s. In the above excerpt from her oral history interview, she …

The transborder modernization of Mexico and the American Southwest during the late
nineteenth and early twentieth centuries transformed the lives of ethnic Mexicans across the …

An underlying understanding among adaptation and community-based natural resource
management (CBNRM) scholars is the existence of important feedbacks between local …