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When Worlds Collide

Filmmakers tap USC College historian María Elena Martínez for guidance on a PBS documentary exploring the first century after the Old World encountered the New World. Martínez also appears in the film to air Sept. 27. Read More

Tracing the Roots of Discrimination

María Elena Martínez’s new book — analyzing the way in which the Spanish purity of blood concept shaped patriotic and racial ideologies in colonial Mexico — wins top awards from the American Historical Association. Read More