The Third Vector, Pacific Pathogens and Colonial Disease Ecology's North of Mexico

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Benjamin Madley is an Associate Professor of History in American Indian Studies at UCLA. He's written dozens of articles and book chapters appearing in journals such as the American Historical Review, California History and the Journal of Genocide Research. His work on epidemics has much to do with the Pacific world as it does with the Atlantic world; we ought to be thinking carefully about the ways in which colonialism radically modified the environment., he says. "I'm sure somehow it will resonate in some way"

In this extended interview, we speak with UCLA Associate Professor Benjamin Madley about his book, "An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe," and discuss how newspapers, tracts, and paperbacks were an essential element in assisting and priming the public for the genocide of California's native population.

Prof. Madley's work was instrumental in our research for previous Citations Needed episodes - namely, "Episode 158: How Notions of 'Blight' and 'Barrenness' Were Created to Erase Indigenous Peoples" and "Episode 172: The Foundational Myth Machine - Indigenous Peoples of North America and Hollywood" - so we were thrilled to dig even deeper into his work on this special News Brief.