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Mauricio Castro, PhD @CastroHistorian Postdoctoral Associate, Program in Latino/a Studies in the Global South Duke University Describe your current research. What about it drew your interest? I am in the process of converting my dissertation, “Casablanca of the Caribbean: Cuban Refugees, Local Power, and Cold War Policy in Miami, 1959-1995,” into a book manuscript. Like […]
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At the end of the 1940s, Mexico City was at a crossroads. Massive waves of migration from the countryside doubled the city’s population in less than ten years.[1] The city’s old tenements (vecindades) began to buckle under the weight of overcrowding and talk of a “housing crisis” became commonplace. The problems surrounding Mexico City’s housing […]
Read MoreAlexia Yates Lecturer (Assistant Professor), Department of History, University of Manchester Also an affiliate at the Manchester Urban Institute and the Center for History and Economics, Harvard University @alexia_yates Describe your current research. What about it drew your interest? I’ve just finished an article that I’ve been working on for some time about the way […]
Read MoreThis week, many of the emails we have received from UHA members have included sighs of relief–we’ve heard reports that classes are done, final exams have been administered, grading is complete, and the academic year has officially drawn to a close. The editors of The Metropole wish you all a relaxing and productive summer, in […]
Read MoreIn 1933, the visionary designer Charles Eames absconded from St. Louis to Mexico, in an effort to “[take] stock of and ultimately [change] his approach and situation in life,” notes his grandson Eames Demetrios. Charles spent about ten months traveling in San Luis Potosi and Monterrey, now and then dipping into more rural areas of […]
Read MoreI am not exactly the world’s most cosmopolitan traveler. I never got on a plane until I was twenty years old, and I’ve only really visited a handful of countries. When my wife and I decided to go to Mexico City for a week this Fall, we went into it with some unwarranted assumptions. The biggest […]
Read MoreBarry Goldberg, Ph.D. (2017) Department of History, CUNY Graduate Center @bpg269 Describe your current research. What about it drew your interest? My project examines Jewish politics on the Lower East Side since the 1960s. I utilize congressional and municipal papers, court records, articles from the ethnic press, and quantitative voting data to examine how an […]
Read MoreIn City of Suspects, published in 2001, I tried to understand crime as an urban phenomenon, a product of the interactions between actors and institutions suddenly brought together by the rapid expansion of Mexico City in the late nineteenth century. The most important sources for that project were the judicial records kept by the […]
Read MoreThe Metropole is excited to debut a new series on urban policing, edited by Matthew Guariglia, a PhD Candidate in the Department of History at the University of Connecticut. “The basic mission for which police exist is to prevent crime and disorder as an alternative to the repression of crime and disorder by military force […]
Read MoreTimothy J. Lombardo, PhD Assistant Professor Department of History, University of South Alabama Twitter: @TimLombard0 Describe your current research. What about it drew your interest? I am currently finishing my first book. It is a study of post-World War II Philadelphia and the blue-collar supporters of 1960s police commissioner turned 1970s mayor, Frank Rizzo. The […]
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