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On Top of the World


Nov 29, 2017

On today’s episode, Matt interviews one of his former students, Valeria Alvarado, an immigrant rights activist and an undergraduate History major.  Val co-founded “We, Too, Are America,” an online platform dedicated to fighting the current administration’s anti-immigrant rhetoric.  The two discuss the undergraduate History experience, navigating the seminar as a woman of color, dealing with tokenism in the classroom, and the importance of understanding colonialism.


Recommendations

Matt - Ten Days That Shook the World by John Reed 

Val - Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond 

We, Too, Are America: https://www.wetooareamerica.org