@NoahJohnson Is this aspect of the relationship between the US and Mexico demonstrated in the stories of Santa Teresa and Don Pedrito? If so, in what ways? #Hist416

@NoahJohnson Both Santa Teresa and Don Pedrito demonstrated the ways that the professionalization and modernization of medical understanding and procedures didn't account for marginalized people. In what ways were their curing practices a mode of resistance and avenue for medical justice at the turn of the twentieth century in the borderlands? #Hist416

@mdiaz2 This is one key example of how the border can shift from porous to solid to porous depending on power relations. How does this case compare to St. John's description of bilateral efforts to force Apache peoples onto reservations in the 1870s and 1880s? What had changed in terms of US-Mexican cooperation, if anything? #Hist416

@arrichavez Absolutely! It takes so much time, energy, and (you guessed it) money, to be able to do the type of research that uncovers the histories that have been hidden.

@arrichavez I always try to emphasize this reality because archives are often considered neutral when they are, in fact, not. They reflect the power structures of the systems that held (hold) sway when they are created. For that exact reason, BIPOC history can be downplayed by those in power. Scholars always need to be aware of this or they will simply reproduce those racist structures in their studies of the past.

@NoahJohnson Much of this has to do with the disconnect between treaties or other laws and conditions that people in the borderlands navigate every day. What are some examples of ways that laws, policies, or treaty stipulations didn't (or don't) match the lived realities of the US-Mexico border? #Hist416

@NoahJohnson @cjoshua2118 That is all too true! What are some themes, issues, or events that St. John describes that are still relevant to the situation on the border today? #Hist416