Southwest Borderlands in the 19th Century

Through the 19th Century, the US-Mexico border moved repeatedly, and the shifting borderlands were a space of cultural and economic transition that often gave rise to racialized gendered violence. In this episode I speak with Dr. Bernadine Hernández , Associate Professor of American Literary Studies at the University of New Mexico, an activist with fronteristxs , and author of Border Bodies: Racialized Sexuality, Sexual Capital, and Violence in the Nineteenth-Century Borderlands . Our theme song is Frogs Legs Rag , composed by James Scott and performed by Kevin MacLeod, licensed under Creative Commons. The episode image is: “ Mexican church at the smelter, El Paso, Texas, United States, ca. 1907 ,” Detroit Publishing Co. No known restrictions on publication, Accessed via the Library of Congress. Additional Sources: “ A moving border, and the history of a difficult boundary ,” by Ron Dungan, USA Today, The Wall, 2018. “ The Violent History of the U.S.-Mexico Border ,” by Becky Little, History.com, March 14, 2019. “ Mexico's Independence Day marks the beginning of a decade-long revolution ,” by Heather Brady, National Geographic, September 14, 2018. “ The Republic of Texas - The Texa…