Mark Overmyer-Velázquez
Biographic Data
| ID | 685113 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mark Overmyer-Velázquez |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mark |
| FAMILY NAME | Overmyer-Velázquez |
| SIGNATURE | OVERMYER-VELÁZQUEZ M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Connecticut |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Limits of Liberty: Mobility and the Making of the Eastern U.S.-Mexico Border. Borderlands and Transcultural Studies Series. By James David Nichols
“[I]f borderlands histories do not conform to national narratives, then do they have their own turning points and narratives that correspond with other histories? Borderlands studies have left too many strands unwoven” (p. 226). In The Limits of Liberty, James David Nichols has diligently worked to answer this question through collecting and threading together oft-neglected historical strands in a richly diverse tapestry of the Mexico-U.S. border…
Karin Alejandra Rosemblatt, The Science and Politics of Race in Mexico and the United States, 1910–1950
The Other California: Land, Identity, and Politics on the Mexican Borderlands
Although we often imagine and characterize borderlands as spaces at the margins of nation-states, they are, in fact, areas central to defining and shaping the history of the countries they divide. Similarly, the Mexico-U.S. borderlands are not only a region of transit but also a site of unique binational and transnational economic and social development. Verónica Castillo-Muñoz's concise and cogently argued work, The Other California, is a welcom…
Global Latin(X) AmericanXs: Charting new ontological and epistemological cartographies beyond US LatinX studies
This article examines how situating our academic inquiry from geographic vantage points outside of the United States allows scholars to recast epistemological and ontological assumptions in the field of US Latina/o Studies. It asks how, from a global reorientation of the cognitive map of US Latina/o Studies, we might reconsider the experience of the Latin American and Caribbean diaspora and the notion of Latinidad in places such as Jordan, Spain,…
Spaces of Capital / Spaces of Resistance: Mexico and the Global Political Economy
As the North American Free Trade Agreement went into effect in 1994, Mexican officials sought to commodify and reinsert into global economic circulation more of the country's spaces of production. In response, indigenous Mayan rebels in the state of Chiapas challenged the government's latest eager embrace of neoliberal policies. Reclaiming the mantle of revolutionary peasant leader Emiliano Zapata, the modern-day Zapatistas demanded their own spa…
They Should Stay There: The Story of Mexican Migration and Repatriation during the Great Depression
This book provides an overview of the story of Mexican migration to the United States and the astonishing forced repatriation of hundreds of thousands of people to Mexico during the worldwide economic crisis of the Great Depression. While Mexicans were hopeful for economic reform following the Mexican revolution, by the 1930s, large numbers of Mexican nationals had already moved north and were living in the United States in one of the twentieth c…
Anna Rose Alexander. City on Fire: Technology, Social Change, and the Hazards of Progress in Mexico City, 1860–1910
In the face of a raging building fire, the contrasting practices of a community passing water buckets and professional firefighters deploying new technologies of flame suppressants encapsulate the fascinating history that Anna Rose Alexander examines in City on Fire: Technology, Social Change, and the Hazards of Progress in Mexico City, 1860–1910. During the time frame explored in Alexander’s study, residential participation in extinguishing muni…
Centering and De-Centering the Latin(o) American Migrant: Transnational and Comparative Race Formation in the Americas
Research Article| January 01 2017 Centering and De-Centering the Latin(o) American Migrant: Transnational and Comparative Race Formation in the Americas Mark Overmyer-Velázquez Mark Overmyer-Velázquez Mark Overmyer-Velázquez is Founding Director of El Instituto: Institute of Latina/o, Caribbean & Latin American Studies and Associate Professor of History at the University of Connecticut. He is the editor of Beyond la Frontera: The History of Mexic…
Mexican Exodus: Emigrants, Exiles, and Refugees of the Cristero War
In Mexican Exodus Julia G. Young challenges scholarly claims that the Cristero War (1926–29) was a Mexican rebellion contained primarily within the country’s west-central heartland. Instead, following Mexican emigrants and religious refugees across the border to communities in the United States, Young demonstrates that the Crisitiada had an enduring and formative relationship with its diaspora both during and after the conflict. By reframing the …
Backroads Pragmatists: Mexico's Melting Pot and Civil Rights in the United States
Scholars have long puzzled over the shifting dynamics of Mexico–United States relations, most often examining unidirectional flows of people and ideas that privilege a dominant northern colossus infecting its southern neighbor suffering from a vulnerable economic and political immune system. In recent decades, however, diplomatic histories and studies of immigration have moved beyond rigid national (and nationalist) interpretations to understand …
Mexico's Once and Future Revolution: Social Upheaval and the Challenge of Rule since the Late Nineteenth Century
Migrants and Migration in Modern North America: Cross-Border Lives, Labor Markets, and Politics
Good Neighbors and White Mexicans: Constructing Race and Nation on the Mexico-U.S. Border
Research Article| October 01 2013 Good Neighbors and White Mexicans: Constructing Race and Nation on the Mexico-U.S. Border Mark Overmyer-Velázquez Mark Overmyer-Velázquez Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2013) 33 (1): 5–34. https://doi.org/10.5406/jamerethnhist.33.1.0005 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Mark Overmyer-Vel…
Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo. I Speak of the City: Mexico City at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
“No one, wise Kuublai, knows better than you that the city must never be confused with the words that describe it. And yet between the one and the other there is a connection” (Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities [1972]). Calvino's prose poem connecting language, city spaces, and urban dwellers resonates with Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo's assiduously researched and gracefully crafted series of essays on the history of Mexico City in the first decades of …
Migration and Labor in the Americas: Praxis, Knowledge, and Nations
This article examines the conceptualization, development, and implementation of two related courses on the lives and labors of migrants in the United States. Both courses focus on the histories and hemispheric experiences of migrant workers, within and between the United States, Latin America, and the Spanish Caribbean. The courses are used as a means to think more broadly about what it means to teach courses on Latin America in the twenty-first-…
From Arrival to Incorporation: Migrants to the U.S. in a Global Era
Portraits of a Lady: Visions of Modernity in Porfirian Oaxaca City
This article explores the relationship between the photographic regimentation of sex workers and ideas of modernity in Porfirian Oaxaca City, Mexico. In particular, it examines the development of the commercial sex trade and how it played an integral role in the construction of the mutually defining discourses and practices of tradition and modernity. Following an examination of the era's reigning medical-legal notions of crime, deviance, and rac…
Visions of the Emerald City: Modernity, Tradition, and the Formation of Porfirian Oaxaca, Mexico
This is an absorbing historical analysis of how Mexicans living in Oaxaca City experienced 'modernity' during the lengthy 'order and progress' dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz (1876-1911
Other Reviews: Tracking the Fugitive City
Portraits of a Lady: Visions of Modernity in Porfirian Oaxaca City
This article explores the relationship between the photographic regimentation of sex workers and ideas of modernity in Porfirian Oaxaca City, Mexico. In particular, it examines the development of the commercial sex trade and how it played an integral role in the construction of the mutually defining discourses and practices of tradition and modernity. Following an examination of the era's reigning medical-legal notions of crime, deviance, and rac…
Visions of the Emerald City: Modernity, Tradition, and the Formation of Porfirian Oaxaca, Mexico
This is an absorbing historical analysis of how Mexicans living in Oaxaca City experienced 'modernity' during the lengthy 'order and progress' dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz (1876-1911
Global Latin(X) AmericanXs: Charting new ontological and epistemological cartographies beyond US LatinX studies
This article examines how situating our academic inquiry from geographic vantage points outside of the United States allows scholars to recast epistemological and ontological assumptions in the field of US Latina/o Studies. It asks how, from a global reorientation of the cognitive map of US Latina/o Studies, we might reconsider the experience of the Latin American and Caribbean diaspora and the notion of Latinidad in places such as Jordan, Spain,…
Good Neighbors and White Mexicans: Constructing Race and Nation on the Mexico-U.S. Border
Research Article| October 01 2013 Good Neighbors and White Mexicans: Constructing Race and Nation on the Mexico-U.S. Border Mark Overmyer-Velázquez Mark Overmyer-Velázquez Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2013) 33 (1): 5–34. https://doi.org/10.5406/jamerethnhist.33.1.0005 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Mark Overmyer-Vel…
The Other California: Land, Identity, and Politics on the Mexican Borderlands
Although we often imagine and characterize borderlands as spaces at the margins of nation-states, they are, in fact, areas central to defining and shaping the history of the countries they divide. Similarly, the Mexico-U.S. borderlands are not only a region of transit but also a site of unique binational and transnational economic and social development. Verónica Castillo-Muñoz's concise and cogently argued work, The Other California, is a welcom…
Other Reviews: Tracking the Fugitive City
Visions of the Emerald City: Modernity, Tradition, and the Formation of Porfirian Oaxaca, Mexico
This is an absorbing historical analysis of how Mexicans living in Oaxaca City experienced 'modernity' during the lengthy 'order and progress' dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz (1876-1911
Portraits of a Lady: Visions of Modernity in Porfirian Oaxaca City
This article explores the relationship between the photographic regimentation of sex workers and ideas of modernity in Porfirian Oaxaca City, Mexico. In particular, it examines the development of the commercial sex trade and how it played an integral role in the construction of the mutually defining discourses and practices of tradition and modernity. Following an examination of the era's reigning medical-legal notions of crime, deviance, and rac…
From Arrival to Incorporation: Migrants to the U.S. in a Global Era
Migration and Labor in the Americas: Praxis, Knowledge, and Nations
This article examines the conceptualization, development, and implementation of two related courses on the lives and labors of migrants in the United States. Both courses focus on the histories and hemispheric experiences of migrant workers, within and between the United States, Latin America, and the Spanish Caribbean. The courses are used as a means to think more broadly about what it means to teach courses on Latin America in the twenty-first-…
Migrants and Migration in Modern North America: Cross-Border Lives, Labor Markets, and Politics
Good Neighbors and White Mexicans: Constructing Race and Nation on the Mexico-U.S. Border
Research Article| October 01 2013 Good Neighbors and White Mexicans: Constructing Race and Nation on the Mexico-U.S. Border Mark Overmyer-Velázquez Mark Overmyer-Velázquez Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2013) 33 (1): 5–34. https://doi.org/10.5406/jamerethnhist.33.1.0005 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Mark Overmyer-Vel…
Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo. I Speak of the City: Mexico City at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
“No one, wise Kuublai, knows better than you that the city must never be confused with the words that describe it. And yet between the one and the other there is a connection” (Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities [1972]). Calvino's prose poem connecting language, city spaces, and urban dwellers resonates with Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo's assiduously researched and gracefully crafted series of essays on the history of Mexico City in the first decades of …
Mexico's Once and Future Revolution: Social Upheaval and the Challenge of Rule since the Late Nineteenth Century
Backroads Pragmatists: Mexico's Melting Pot and Civil Rights in the United States
Scholars have long puzzled over the shifting dynamics of Mexico–United States relations, most often examining unidirectional flows of people and ideas that privilege a dominant northern colossus infecting its southern neighbor suffering from a vulnerable economic and political immune system. In recent decades, however, diplomatic histories and studies of immigration have moved beyond rigid national (and nationalist) interpretations to understand …
Centering and De-Centering the Latin(o) American Migrant: Transnational and Comparative Race Formation in the Americas
Research Article| January 01 2017 Centering and De-Centering the Latin(o) American Migrant: Transnational and Comparative Race Formation in the Americas Mark Overmyer-Velázquez Mark Overmyer-Velázquez Mark Overmyer-Velázquez is Founding Director of El Instituto: Institute of Latina/o, Caribbean & Latin American Studies and Associate Professor of History at the University of Connecticut. He is the editor of Beyond la Frontera: The History of Mexic…
Mexican Exodus: Emigrants, Exiles, and Refugees of the Cristero War
In Mexican Exodus Julia G. Young challenges scholarly claims that the Cristero War (1926–29) was a Mexican rebellion contained primarily within the country’s west-central heartland. Instead, following Mexican emigrants and religious refugees across the border to communities in the United States, Young demonstrates that the Crisitiada had an enduring and formative relationship with its diaspora both during and after the conflict. By reframing the …
They Should Stay There: The Story of Mexican Migration and Repatriation during the Great Depression
This book provides an overview of the story of Mexican migration to the United States and the astonishing forced repatriation of hundreds of thousands of people to Mexico during the worldwide economic crisis of the Great Depression. While Mexicans were hopeful for economic reform following the Mexican revolution, by the 1930s, large numbers of Mexican nationals had already moved north and were living in the United States in one of the twentieth c…
Anna Rose Alexander. City on Fire: Technology, Social Change, and the Hazards of Progress in Mexico City, 1860–1910
In the face of a raging building fire, the contrasting practices of a community passing water buckets and professional firefighters deploying new technologies of flame suppressants encapsulate the fascinating history that Anna Rose Alexander examines in City on Fire: Technology, Social Change, and the Hazards of Progress in Mexico City, 1860–1910. During the time frame explored in Alexander’s study, residential participation in extinguishing muni…
Karin Alejandra Rosemblatt, The Science and Politics of Race in Mexico and the United States, 1910–1950
The Other California: Land, Identity, and Politics on the Mexican Borderlands
Although we often imagine and characterize borderlands as spaces at the margins of nation-states, they are, in fact, areas central to defining and shaping the history of the countries they divide. Similarly, the Mexico-U.S. borderlands are not only a region of transit but also a site of unique binational and transnational economic and social development. Verónica Castillo-Muñoz's concise and cogently argued work, The Other California, is a welcom…
Global Latin(X) AmericanXs: Charting new ontological and epistemological cartographies beyond US LatinX studies
This article examines how situating our academic inquiry from geographic vantage points outside of the United States allows scholars to recast epistemological and ontological assumptions in the field of US Latina/o Studies. It asks how, from a global reorientation of the cognitive map of US Latina/o Studies, we might reconsider the experience of the Latin American and Caribbean diaspora and the notion of Latinidad in places such as Jordan, Spain,…
Spaces of Capital / Spaces of Resistance: Mexico and the Global Political Economy
As the North American Free Trade Agreement went into effect in 1994, Mexican officials sought to commodify and reinsert into global economic circulation more of the country's spaces of production. In response, indigenous Mayan rebels in the state of Chiapas challenged the government's latest eager embrace of neoliberal policies. Reclaiming the mantle of revolutionary peasant leader Emiliano Zapata, the modern-day Zapatistas demanded their own spa…
The Limits of Liberty: Mobility and the Making of the Eastern U.S.-Mexico Border. Borderlands and Transcultural Studies Series. By James David Nichols
“[I]f borderlands histories do not conform to national narratives, then do they have their own turning points and narratives that correspond with other histories? Borderlands studies have left too many strands unwoven” (p. 226). In The Limits of Liberty, James David Nichols has diligently worked to answer this question through collecting and threading together oft-neglected historical strands in a richly diverse tapestry of the Mexico-U.S. border…
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