Alexander Aviña

Alexander Aviña

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Historian of Mexico and Latin America currently researching drug wars and dirty wars. Arizona State University prof, @OUPHistory author

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Inga Clendinnen once wrote that “historians are the camp-followers of the imperialists.” Enter one Jeff Fynn-Paul w/ his apologia for settler colonialism and genocide

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Eighty years ago today, Walter Benjamin committed suicide in the town of Portbou, in Girona, trying to escape fascism in Spain and France.

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25 Sep

Why did I read his op-ed? This is such a cowardly take. Historians may one day do what Wilentz is clearly doing in this op-ed w/ his "all lives matter" approach

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