Cantinflas and the Chaos of Mexican Modernity

Cantinflas and the Chaos of Mexican Modernity
Author: Jeffrey M. Pilcher
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2001
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780842027717

Why was Cantinflas, actor Mario Moreno's film persona, the most popular movie star in Mexican history? Was it because every Mexican - rich or poor, Creole or Indian, man or woman, young or old - could identify with him?

Modern Mexico

Modern Mexico
Author: James D. Huck Jr.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 391
Release: 2017-12-01
Genre: History
ISBN:

This single volume reference resource offers students, scholars, and general readers alike an in-depth background on Mexico, from the complexity of its pre-Columbian civilizations to its social and political development in the context of Western civilization. How did modern Mexico become a nation of multicultural diversity and rich indigenous traditions? What key roles do Mexico's non-Western, pre-Columbian indigenous heritage and subsequent development as a major center in the Spanish colonial empire play the country's identity today? How is Mexico today both Western and non-Western, part Native American and part European, simultaneously traditional and modern? Modern Mexico is a thematic encyclopedia that broadly covers the nation's history, both ancient and modern; its government, politics, and economics; as well as its culture, religion traditions, philosophy, arts, and social structures. Additional topics include industry, labor, social classes and ethnicity, women, education, language, food, leisure and sport, and popular culture. Sidebars, images, and a Day in the Life feature round out the coverage in this accessible, engaging volume. Readers will come to understand how Mexico and the Mexican people today are the result of the processes of transculturation, globalization, and civilizational contact.

Encyclopedia of Modern Mexico

Encyclopedia of Modern Mexico
Author: David W. Dent
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2002
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780810842915

From the Acteal Massacre to Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León, this exciting reference, created for a high school audience, explores the rich culture, the depth of achievement, and the creative energy of Mexico and its people.

Childhood and Modernity in Cold War Mexico City

Childhood and Modernity in Cold War Mexico City
Author: Eileen Ford
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2018-02-22
Genre: History
ISBN: 1350040045

Childhood and Modernity in Cold War Mexico City traces the transformations that occurred between 1934 and 1968 in Mexico through the lens of childhood. Countering the dominance of Western European and North American views of childhood, Eileen Ford puts the experiences of children in Latin America into their historical, political, and cultural contexts. Drawing on diverse primary sources ranging from oral histories to photojournalism, Ford reconstructs the emergent and varying meanings of childhood in Mexico City during a period of changing global attitudes towards childhood, and changing power relations in Mexico at multiple scales, from the family to the state. She analyses children's presence on the silver screen, in radio, and in print media to examine the way that children were constructed within public discourse, identifying the forces that would converge in the 1968 student movement. This book demonstrates children's importance within Mexican society as Mexico transitioned from a socialist-inspired revolutionary government to one that embraced industrial capitalism in the Cold War era. It is a fascinating study of an extremely important, burgeoning population group in Mexico that has previously been excluded from histories of Mexico's bid for modernity. Childhood and Modernity in Cold War Mexico City will be essential reading for students and scholars of Latin American history and the Cold War.

Masculinity and Sexuality in Modern Mexico

Masculinity and Sexuality in Modern Mexico
Author: Víctor M. Macías-González
Publisher: UNM Press
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2012
Genre: Homosexuality
ISBN: 0826329055

In Masculinity and Sexuality in Modern Mexico, historians and anthropologists explain how evolving notions of the meaning and practice of manhood have shaped Mexican history. In essays that range from Texas to Oaxaca and from the 1880s to the present, contributors write about file clerks and movie stars, wealthy world travelers and ordinary people whose adventures were confined to a bar in the middle of town. The Mexicans we meet in these essays lived out their identities through extraordinary events--committing terrible crimes, writing world-famous songs, and ruling the nation--but also in everyday activities like falling in love, raising families, getting dressed, and going to the movies. Thus, these essays in the history of masculinity connect the major topics of Mexican political history since 1880 to the history of daily life.

The White Indians of Mexican Cinema

The White Indians of Mexican Cinema
Author: Mónica García Blizzard
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2022-04-01
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 143848805X

The White Indians of Mexican Cinema theorizes the development of a unique form of racial masquerade—the representation of Whiteness as Indigeneity—during the Golden Age of Mexican cinema, from the 1930s to the 1950s. Adopting a broad decolonial perspective while remaining grounded in the history of local racial categories, Mónica García Blizzard argues that this trope works to reconcile two divergent discourses about race in postrevolutionary Mexico: the government-sponsored celebration of Indigeneity and mestizaje (or the process of interracial and intercultural mixing), on the one hand, and the idealization of Whiteness, on the other. Close readings of twenty films and primary source material illustrate how Mexican cinema has mediated race, especially in relation to gender, in ways that project national specificity, but also reproduce racist tendencies with respect to beauty, desire, and protagonism that survive to this day. This sweeping survey illuminates how Golden Age films produced diverse, even contradictory messages about the place of Indigeneity in the national culture. This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem)—a collaboration of the Association of American Universities, the Association of University Presses, and the Association of Research Libraries—and the generous support of Emory University and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Learn more at the TOME website, available at: https://www.openmonographs.org/. It can also be found in the SUNY Open Access Repository at http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12648/7153

The U.S.-Mexican Border Into the Twenty-first Century

The U.S.-Mexican Border Into the Twenty-first Century
Author: Paul Ganster
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2008
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780742553361

Systematically exploring the dynamic interface between Mexico and the United States, this comprehensive survey considers the historical development, current politics, society, economy, and daily life of the border region. Now fully updated and revised, the book analyzes the economic cycles and social movements from the 1880s that created this distinctive borderlands region and propelled it into the twenty-first century and a globalizing world. Richly illustrated with photographs, maps, and tables, the book concludes with an analysis of key borderlands issues that range from the environment to migration to national security.

Spies-C.I.A-Lies-Terrorist-Che Guevara

Spies-C.I.A-Lies-Terrorist-Che Guevara
Author: Evelyn Guevara Lohmann
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2017-03-14
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3743148668

The reality of the propaganda Hero Che Guevara only came to light when I started to look for my birthparents. My first shock was, he was still alive! I met him, he was my father but everyone has to die sometime; he died on 1.1.2017. After sixteen years of research and many questions Che Guevara/Ciro Bustos could have answered. I found out how he was created into a propaganda hero. Visual evidence underlines how the fake was created.

Viva Mexico! Viva la Independencia!

Viva Mexico! Viva la Independencia!
Author: William H. Beezley
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2001
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780842029155

Examines the history of celebrations of Mexican Independence Day on September 15. Describes historic celebrations in different parts of the country including Mexico City, San Luis Potosi, San Angel, and Puebla.

Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage, Volume V

Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage, Volume V
Author: Kenya Dworkin y M?ndez
Publisher: Arte Publico Press
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2006-05-31
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9781611922660

This volume of essays marks the fifteenth year of archival and critical work conducted under the auspices of the Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Project at the University of Houston. This ongoing and comprehensive program seeks to locate, identify, preserve, and disseminate the literary contributions of U.S. Latinos from the Spanish Colonial Period to contemporary times. The contributors explore key issues and challenges in this project, such as the issue of its legitimacy and acceptance in teh academic canon, whether the basic archival phase of the Recovery Project is complete, and if teh assumption that there is widespread recognition of the existence and vitality of a centuries-long U.S. Hispanic literary tradition may be premature and perhaps imprudent. Originally presented at the biennial conferences of the Recovery project, the essays are divided in five sections: "Rethinking Latino/a Subject Positions," "Negotiating Cultural Authority and the Canon," "Orality, Performance, and the Archive," "Re-Contextualizing Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton," and "Bibliographic Reports." Covering a wide range of topics, essays include "Bending Chicano Identity and Experience in Arturo Isla's Early Borderland Short Stories," "Recovering Mexican America in the Classroom," and "Early New Mexican Criticism: The Case of Breve Resena de la literatura hispana de Nuevo Mexico y Colorado." In their introduction, editors Kenya Dworkin y Mendez and Agnes Lugo-Ortiz give an overview of the editorial framing of the previous volumes in the series and discuss the significant research issues and agendas raised over the past fifteen years. This volume, like the ones that precede it, is bilingual, confirming the cultural politics that have animated the Recovery Project since its inception: the understanding that the U.S. is a complex multicultural and multilingual society.