The History of the Open Border Between USA and Mexico with Dr. Carlos

Millennial guest and recent doctoral graduate of 19th-20th century US west Latino/a/x History, US-Mexican Borderlands, and Modern Mexico helps us unpack some of the controversy surrounding the wall issue in southern Arizona where we both met as teachers. He shares his upbringing along the border on the Arizona side, as well as shares the vision of his passion project Nomadic Border, or La Frontera Nomada, a website dedicated to telling the border story he barely got in high school.

Nomadic Border/La Frontera Nomada

NomadicBorder: "Monumental Border Mistakes:Boundary Monument 127 and the Arizona-Sonora Line"

Generation definitions-Silent-Millennial

GenZ Definition/years

Generation Alpha Definition/years

Jean Paul Sartre and No Exit

Cesar Chavez

Queen Calafia

Southern Arizona and Northern Mexico states

Sky Alliance - environmental group in AZ

Honduras Caravan

2020-Second hottest year on record (NOAA Scientists)

Film An Inconvenient Truth

Yellow Vest/ Mouvement des gilets jaunes) Movement in France 2018

Noam Chomsky

Corn Fields, Guitars and Punk (Jason's episode that mentions Howard Zinn)

U2 The Joshua Tree

Back to the Future