Books in the Critical Mexican Studies series

Offers important insights into not only the topic of serialized storytelling, but to larger notions of how national identities are created through narrative, with crucial cultural and sometimes political implications.

Investigates the fate of economic hopes during the difficult decades between the year of Mexico's definite separation from Spain and the year of the defeat of the French occupation and the restoration of the Republic, which many took to be the second and final independence of the territory.

Engages the digital humanities, critical race theory, border studies, biopolitical theory, and necropolitical theory to interrogate how technology has been used to oppress people of Mexican descent - both within Mexico and in the United States - since the advent of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in 1994.

Interweaves an autobiographical narrative with concrete research. John Mraz describes the resistance he encountered in US academia to this new way of showing and describing the past, as well as some illuminating experiences as a visiting professor at several US universities.