Jonna Perillo

May 25, 2022

In this episode host Tim Z. Hernandez interviews UTEP Associate English professor, Jonna Perillo on her new book Educating the Enemy. 

Perillo’s new book Educating the Enemy charts the story of how two groups of immigrant students both considered enemies of a sort—children of Nazi scientists and Mexican American children—fared in El Paso schools and what their experiences reveal about postwar American schooling and political culture.