On this episode my guest is Dr. Yuridia Ramírez, a Ford Foundation Fellow and Assistant Professor of history at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Ramírez earned her PhD in history from Duke University with a certificate in Latin American Studies. She also holds a BA in history and journalism from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, and an MA in history from Duke University. Our conversation today covers topics related to Dr. Ramírez' current book project, tentatively titled Indigeneity on the Move: Transborder Politics from Michoacán to North Carolina, a historic and interdisciplinary analysis of a diasporic indigenous community and their transforming sense of indigeneity. 

References:

“'Two Churches in One Building': Holy Cross Catholic Church, Latino Immigration, and New Geographies of Resistance, 1988–1997", in Faith and Power Latino Religious Politics Since 1945 (New York University Press, 2022)

China Medel and Yuridia Ramírez, "“When Is a Migrant a Refugee?” Hierarchizing Migrant Life", in Migration, Identity, and Belonging (Routledge, 2020)