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    • Echoes from the Borderlands >
      • Battle of Ambos Nogales (Part I)
      • Battle of Ambos Nogales (Part II)
      • The Chicano Moratorium 50 Years Later
      • Monumental Border Mistakes: Boundary Monument 127
      • Mexico's Lost Archipelago >
        • Mexico's Claims to the Channel Islands
        • Brown Beret Occupation of Catalina Island
        • Catalina: Borderland at Sea
        • San Clemente Island: A "Voyage into the Heart of Darkness"?
        • San Miguel: Island of Many Kingdoms
    • Border Crossings
    • PHOTO ESSAYS
    • ABOUT ME
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  • La Frontera Nomada
    • EXPOSICIONES EN LINEA >
      • La Batalla del 27 de agosto entre los Ambos Nogales (Parte I)
      • La Batalla del 27 de agosto entre los Ambos Nogales (Parte 2)
      • El Archipielago Mexicano Perdido >
        • El Reclamo Mexicano Sobre el Archipiélago del Norte en California
      • La Moratoria Chicana a sus 50 Años
    • FOTO GALERIAS
    • ACERCA DE MI
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ABOUT ME

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My name is Carlos Parra and I am an inaugural Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Arizona in Tucson and I am fascinated by the history and peoples of the U.S.-Mexican border region. I study U.S., Latino, and Mexican history, and am currently writing a book based on my doctoral dissertation at the University of Southern California - “A Community on the Air: Latino Los Angeles and the Rise of Spanish-Language TV in the United States, 1960-1990" – which focuses on how Univision KMEX Channel 34 and Telemundo KVEA Channel 52 and other stations created a sense of Latino identity and community among Latinas and Latinos.
 
As a former high school teacher, I value the importance of making scholarly research accessible for a wider audience, especially for young people. NomadicBorder is a continuation of my work in the Smithsonian Institution's Latino Museum Studies Program (2017) and the USC Center for Democracy and Diversity's History in a Box Project in which I supervised the creation of local history teaching materials for elementary schools in the Latino-immigrant neighborhood on Boyle Heights in the eastside of Los Angeles. From 2021-2022 I served as a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Loyola Marymount University Department of Chicana/o-Latina/o Studies.
 
To understand our current-day social problems - to imagine a better future for the peoples of the Mexico-U.S. border region and beyond - we must understand the past we come from. Thank you for your visit - I look forward to hearing from you as you explore this site.

​CONTACT: cparra@usc.edu

Publications

Parra, Carlos. "Lessons in Americanization: Educational Attainment and Internal Colonialism in Albuquerque Public Schools, 1879-1942." New Mexico Historical Review, Vol. 91 (Spring 2016): 163-200.
 
Parra, Carlos. "Valientes Nogalenses: The 1918 Battle Between the U.S. and Mexico That Transformed Ambos Nogales." Journal of Arizona History, Vol. 51 (Spring 2010): 1-32. 

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I hate to see a fence anywhere. I hope there won't be a fence here too long.
- U.S. First Lady Patty Nixon,
​Friendship Park, San Diego, CA, USA
August 18, 1971
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  • Nomadic Border
    • Echoes from the Borderlands >
      • Battle of Ambos Nogales (Part I)
      • Battle of Ambos Nogales (Part II)
      • The Chicano Moratorium 50 Years Later
      • Monumental Border Mistakes: Boundary Monument 127
      • Mexico's Lost Archipelago >
        • Mexico's Claims to the Channel Islands
        • Brown Beret Occupation of Catalina Island
        • Catalina: Borderland at Sea
        • San Clemente Island: A "Voyage into the Heart of Darkness"?
        • San Miguel: Island of Many Kingdoms
    • Border Crossings
    • PHOTO ESSAYS
    • ABOUT ME
    • Terms of Use
  • La Frontera Nomada
    • EXPOSICIONES EN LINEA >
      • La Batalla del 27 de agosto entre los Ambos Nogales (Parte I)
      • La Batalla del 27 de agosto entre los Ambos Nogales (Parte 2)
      • El Archipielago Mexicano Perdido >
        • El Reclamo Mexicano Sobre el Archipiélago del Norte en California
      • La Moratoria Chicana a sus 50 Años
    • FOTO GALERIAS
    • ACERCA DE MI
    • Condiciones de Uso