Josè Alamillo
@josealamillo.bsky.social
Professor at CSU Channel Islands and researcher of Mexican American cultural history. Enjoys food, live concerts, moviegoing, hiking, playing tennis and attending Dodgers games.
Reposted by Josè Alamillo
Congrats, Erica Toffoli. I agree: it’s an eye-opening article. It was an honor to be on the same issue on the border patrol centennial in California History, edited by Benny Andres, @josealamillo.bsky.social , and Mary Irwin.
“Given the politics of the day,” Orsi Prize Committee member Carol Lynn McKibben argues, "Electric Eyes" is “particularly timely, original, and significant.” www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/c...
"California History" Announces the 2024 Winner of the Richard J. Orsi Prize
Congratulations to Erica Toffoli whose article “Electric Eyes: Surveillance, Sovereignty, and the Limits of the Border Patrol’s Technocratic Vision on the U.S.-Mexico Line” has won this year's Orsi Pr...
www.ucpress.edu
August 6, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Congrats, Erica Toffoli. I agree: it’s an eye-opening article. It was an honor to be on the same issue on the border patrol centennial in California History, edited by Benny Andres, @josealamillo.bsky.social , and Mary Irwin.
I wrote this article while witnessing ICE raids near my campus and talking to my father about his deportation experience.
Guest column: Essential but disposable — the cruel paradox of farmworker raids
As a historian, the recent raids in the fields of Ventura County brought to mind decades of similar actions in this country’s history with immigration.
www.vcstar.com
July 24, 2025 at 3:16 AM
I wrote this article while witnessing ICE raids near my campus and talking to my father about his deportation experience.
Reposted by Josè Alamillo
Loved working with @zocalopublicsquare.bsky.social on this piece. If you have thoughts on it, let's discuss!
Historian @julieweise.bsky.social explains how employers can use their collective voice—as they have in the past—to shift the immigration debate away from criminality and toward a broader understanding of economy, community, and America. zps.la/448XLAo
Employers, Speak Up for Immigrant Workers | Essay
With One Collective Voice, Business Owners Could Change the National Conversation. They’ve Done It Before
zps.la
June 27, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Loved working with @zocalopublicsquare.bsky.social on this piece. If you have thoughts on it, let's discuss!
Reposted by Josè Alamillo
Reposted by Josè Alamillo
"What our profession most definitely does not believe is that the primary purpose of history is to instill a single notion of 'patriotic education' in our youth about 'our incredible Nation,' as the order demands."
Correct. Trump wants propaganda, not history.
newrepublic.com/article/1912...
Correct. Trump wants propaganda, not history.
newrepublic.com/article/1912...
Trump May Wish to Abolish
the Past. We Historians Will Not.
Commentary from the heads of two prominent historical associations on Trump’s recent executive order on “radical indoctrination” in schools.
newrepublic.com
February 7, 2025 at 12:45 AM
"What our profession most definitely does not believe is that the primary purpose of history is to instill a single notion of 'patriotic education' in our youth about 'our incredible Nation,' as the order demands."
Correct. Trump wants propaganda, not history.
newrepublic.com/article/1912...
Correct. Trump wants propaganda, not history.
newrepublic.com/article/1912...
Reposted by Josè Alamillo
The AHA & the @oah.org have released a joint statement on the presidential executive order “Ending Radical Indoctrination in K–12 Schooling.” “We reject the premise that it is ‘anti-American’ or ‘subversive’ to learn the full history of the United States.” 🗃️
AHA–OAH Statement on Executive Order “Ending Radical Indoctrination in K–12 Schooling”
The American Historical Association and the Organization of American Historians (OAH) have released a joint statement on the presidential executive order “Ending Radical Indoctrination in K–12 Schooli...
www.historians.org
February 5, 2025 at 7:09 PM
The AHA & the @oah.org have released a joint statement on the presidential executive order “Ending Radical Indoctrination in K–12 Schooling.” “We reject the premise that it is ‘anti-American’ or ‘subversive’ to learn the full history of the United States.” 🗃️
Reposted by Josè Alamillo
My article on the #latinx vote just came out today @hammerandhope.bsky.social hammerandhope.org/article/lati...
There Is No Such Thing as the “Latino Vote”
Colonialism and racism fueled the invention of “Latino” as a category and continue to distort U.S. politics today.
hammerandhope.org
December 21, 2024 at 10:22 PM
My article on the #latinx vote just came out today @hammerandhope.bsky.social hammerandhope.org/article/lati...
Reposted by Josè Alamillo
academic.oup.com/jah/article-...
My JAH article on how anti-immigrant violence in the borderlands contributed to the human rights movement: the Hanigan case shows us the ways undocumented people and their advocates have defended migrants’ human and civil rights in the face of unspeakable violence
My JAH article on how anti-immigrant violence in the borderlands contributed to the human rights movement: the Hanigan case shows us the ways undocumented people and their advocates have defended migrants’ human and civil rights in the face of unspeakable violence
In the Shadow of the Law: The Hanigan Case and the Genesis of the Immigrant Rights Movement
One August afternoon in 1976, a group of men building a fence on a family ranch in Agua Prieta, Mexico, looked up to see a young man limping toward them. N
academic.oup.com
November 27, 2024 at 10:39 PM
academic.oup.com/jah/article-...
My JAH article on how anti-immigrant violence in the borderlands contributed to the human rights movement: the Hanigan case shows us the ways undocumented people and their advocates have defended migrants’ human and civil rights in the face of unspeakable violence
My JAH article on how anti-immigrant violence in the borderlands contributed to the human rights movement: the Hanigan case shows us the ways undocumented people and their advocates have defended migrants’ human and civil rights in the face of unspeakable violence
This is a divide and conquer strategy to pit undocumented immigrants against asylum-seekers
www.propublica.org/article/immi...
www.propublica.org/article/immi...
Immigrants’ Resentment Over New Arrivals Helped Boost Trump’s Popularity With Latino Voters
Across the U.S., Latino immigrants who’ve been in the country a long time felt that asylum-seekers got preferential treatment. “Those of us who have been here for years get nothing,” said one woman fr...
www.propublica.org
November 27, 2024 at 5:02 PM
This is a divide and conquer strategy to pit undocumented immigrants against asylum-seekers
www.propublica.org/article/immi...
www.propublica.org/article/immi...
An important reminder by Natalia Molina about the power of Grassroots activism to push back against mass deportations at the local level
Opinion: Trump's border czar and a history we should not forget
The next administration is gearing up for mass deportations. When 'repatriation' happened in Los Angeles nearly a century ago, U.S. citizens were expelled.
www.latimes.com
November 16, 2024 at 8:06 AM
An important reminder by Natalia Molina about the power of Grassroots activism to push back against mass deportations at the local level
