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Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands

W. W. Norton & Company

Kelly Fernandez, a History and African American Studies professor at UCLA, takes us back in time to the defining event of modern Mexican history. It was the time of the Mexican Revolution when the magonistas took over. Bad Mexicans tells the dramatic story of the magonistas, the migrant rebels who sparked the 1910 Mexican Revolution from the United States. Led by a brilliant but ill-tempered radical named Ricardo Flores Magón, determined to oust Mexico’s dictator, Porfirio Díaz, who encouraged the plunder of his country by U.S. imperialists such as Guggenheim and Rockefeller, the rebels had to outrun and outsmart the swarm of U. S. authorities vested in protecting the Diaz regime.

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This interview originally aired on February 12, 2023