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Rachel Grace Newman
@rachelgracenewman.bsky.social
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Book coming May 2026!

The Future in Their Hands: Making Mexico's Foreign-Educated Elite
https://www.ucpress.edu/books/the-future-in-their-hands/paper

Asst. Prof of History at Colgate

Hosting convos on LatAmStudies books @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social
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How much do you know about the Cuban Missile Crisis?

Learn more about how the crisis was made by hemispheric politics with @renatakeller.bsky.social on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social.

This interview was so much fun--thanks for a great read & great chat, Renata!

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November 25, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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November 14, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Just finished recording a great convo with Mila Burns about her book w/@uncpress.bsky.social for @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social!

This book teaches us to think about Brazil as a regional powerhouse & shows its role in facilitating the coup against Allende. A tough & crucial read.

Podcast coming soon!
Dictatorship across Borders Brazil, Chile, and the South American Cold War by Mila Burns
November 11, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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Yay! LASA 2026 in Paris!

Very excited to present with Fer Amador II, Gabriel Panuco-Mercado, & Robert Curley on soc/cult histories of migrant economies

Thanks @lasabluesky.bsky.social for the opportunity!
Congratulations! The Program Committee has approved the session "Mexican Migrant Economies Beyond Labor: The Social and Cultural Histories of Remitting, Displacement, and Entrepreneurship in the Long Twentieth Century" into the Track Migration and Refugees of the LASA2026 Congress: Republic and Revolution taking place May 26–30, 2026, in Paris, France, at the Paris Marriott Rive Gauche Hotel & Conference Center.
November 10, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Here's what it is about!
The Future in Their Hands is a deep history of the politics of foreign education in Mexico, where many influential figures have European or US degrees. Reconstructing the history of student mobility from the late nineteenth to the late twentieth century, Rachel Grace Newman unveils the social hierarchies, political languages, and institutional mechanisms that created Mexico’s foreign-educated elite. Study abroad began as a private phenomenon for young elites to acquire specific forms of knowledge and to preserve their status. But, as Newman shows,after the 1910 revolution, elites gradually convinced the Mexican state, under the guise of modernizing the nation, to underwrite their ambitions with merit-based scholarships. Student mobility naturalized the expectation that Mexico’s sovereignty and development required knowledge from somewhere else. For historians of Mexico and other countries with foreign-educated elites, this book reveals the subtle, insidious processes by which states reinforce privilege through education policy.
October 28, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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We're website official!

Coming in May 2026 @ucpress.bsky.social...

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Cover image for Rachel's new book, The Future in Their Hands. White and teal colorblock background. Middle image is watercolor illustration showing 6 human figures working.
October 28, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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Turned in my final manuscript files so...

Coming out next year with @ucpress.bsky.social!
The Future in Their Hands: Making Mexico's Foreign-Educated Elite
August 22, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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Lotería en tsotsil
August 21, 2025 at 6:40 PM