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Alberto García Maldonado
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Historian of Mexico and Latin America -- Author of Abandoning Their Beloved Land: The Politics of Bracero Migration in Mexico (UC Press) -- Associate Professor at San José State University
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Mo Salah is asking the right questions
August 9, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Happy to have contributed to the launch of a new alt-weekly that'll be covering the Bay Area.
Launch Coyote Media Collective
A new alt-weekly-style publication is hitting the Bay Area
givebutter.com
June 19, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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I will be damned if I allow a bunch of Confederate-waving January 6th apologists give the American people a lecture on flag waving.

There is ZERO reason to enter an argument about patriotism with people who still worship traitors to America 150+ years later.

They. Are. Breaking. The. Law.
June 11, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Sign of the times: watching the Mexico-Turkey friendly being played in North Carolina. The Spanish-language announcers note that there not might be as many fans as expected in the stands "given the situation in this country right now."
June 11, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty.

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
May 30, 2025 at 4:20 PM
My favorite college football podcast is doing its annual charity drive for New American Pathways, a non-profit that provides refugee resettlement services. I donated one dollar for each victory (48) that UC Davis has over Sac State. @edsbs.bsky.social @hollyanderson.bsky.social
April 16, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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I don’t know who this guy is but I liked his sign! (NYC)
HandsOff
April 6, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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There are trans Americans right now looking out at this world and wondering if anyone is going to stand up for them and for their simple right to exist.

Well, I am. We are. We will.
March 31, 2025 at 4:16 PM
My mentor, colleague, and friend Brian DeLay on what folks like Bret Stephens don't know about UC Berkeley, its faculty, and its students.
Bret Stephens says Columbia and @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social are "essentially factories of Maoist cadres taught by professors whose political views ranged almost exclusively from the left to the far left." Here are some things Stephens doesn't know about Berkeley:
Opinion | ‘It Is Facing a Campaign of Annihilation’: Three Columnists on Trump’s War Against Academia
What went wrong for higher education?
www.nytimes.com
March 15, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Honored and thrilled that my book, Abandoning Their Beloved Land, was named one of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2024.
December 13, 2024 at 11:40 PM
Thrilled to be in UConn to deliver the keynote at their History Graduate Student Research Conference, as well as talk about my book at @uconnelinstituto.bsky.social.
History Graduate Student Research Conference
Please join the History Department as graduate students present their research and we welcome keynote speaker Alberto García Maldonado, Associate ...
events.uconn.edu
November 18, 2024 at 2:55 PM
Since I have quite a few new followers -- including many I recognize from Twitter/X, great to see y'all again -- I figured it would be good to do a reintroduction thread. So: hi! I'm a historian of Latin America who specializes in twentieth-century Mexico.
November 13, 2024 at 12:25 AM
I wrote a history of the Bracero Program, the 1942-1964 bilateral initiative that allowed Mexican men to work in the US as seasonal contract farmworkers. www.ucpress.edu/books/abando...
October 31, 2024 at 1:06 AM
Going to start trying to be a bit more active here, so: Hello! I'm an associate professor of history at San José State University who specializes in modern Mexico and Latin America.
August 22, 2024 at 8:01 PM