Border Bodies: Racialized Sexuality, Sexual Capital, and Violence in the Nineteenth-Century Borderlands

01.13.2023 – New Mexico in Focus correspondent Russell Contreras speaks with UNM Professor and Author Bernadine Hernandez about her book, ‘Border Bodies.’ The book discusses how racialized sexuality, sexual capital and violence in the 19th century borderlands contributed to the southwest as we know and understand it today.

Correspondent: Russell Contreras

Guest: Dr. Bernadine Hernández, Author, associate professor of American Literary Studies at UNM

For More Information:

Border Bodies: Racialized Sexuality, Sexual Capital, and Violence in the Nineteenth-Century Borderlands – The University of North Carolina Press

Bernadine Hernández – University of New Mexico Department of English Language and Literature