This is Democracy – Episode 58: Hispanic Exclusion in American Universities and Society

In this episode, Jeremi and Zachary speak with Professor Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra to discuss issues of racial discrimination against the Hispanic community within American universities and society. Zachary sets the scene with his poem, “Exclusion is a Funny Word.” Professor Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra is the Alice Drysdale Sheffield Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin He is the author of numerous ground-breaking and prize-winning books and papers, including: How to Write the History of the New World; Puritan Conquistadors; and Nature, Empire, and Nation.  The core of his intellectual project has been to demonstrate the deep formative role of “Latin America” to the colonial history of the USA and to the history of “Western” modernity as a whole, not just slavery, globalization, and capitalism but also science, abolitionism, and democracy.