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Author : Jürgen Buchenau
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 50,46 MB
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826323132
A diverse collection of observations on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Mexico by non-Mexican authors.
Author : Raymond B. Craib
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 49,39 MB
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822334163
Analyzes spatial history of 19th and early 20th century Mexico, particularly political uses of mapping and surveying, to demonstrate multiple ways that space can be negotiated in the service of local or national agendas.
Author : Denise A. Segura
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 36,19 MB
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822341185
Seminal essays on how women adapt to the structural transformations caused by the large migration from Mexico to the U.S.A., how they create or contest representations of their identities in light of their marginality, and give voice to their own agency.
Author : María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 26,96 MB
Release : 2016-03-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0822374927
In Indian Given María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo addresses current racialized violence and resistance in Mexico and the United States with a genealogy that reaches back to the sixteenth century. Saldaña-Portillo formulates the central place of indigenous peoples in the construction of national spaces and racialized notions of citizenship, showing, for instance, how Chicanos/as in the U.S./Mexico borderlands might affirm or reject their indigenous background based on their location. In this and other ways, she demonstrates how the legacies of colonial Spain's and Britain's differing approaches to encountering indigenous peoples continue to shape perceptions of the natural, racial, and cultural landscapes of the United States and Mexico. Drawing on a mix of archival, historical, literary, and legal texts, Saldaña-Portillo shows how los indios/Indians provided the condition of possibility for the emergence of Mexico and the United States.
Author : Laura A. Lewis
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 39,81 MB
Release : 2003-09-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0822385155
Through an examination of caste in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Mexico, Hall of Mirrors explores the construction of hierarchy and difference in a Spanish colonial setting. Laura A. Lewis describes how the meanings attached to the categories of Spanish, Indian, black, mulatto, and mestizo were generated within that setting, as she shows how the cultural politics of caste produced a system of fluid and relational designations that simultaneously facilitated and undermined Spanish governance. Using judicial records from a variety of colonial courts, Lewis highlights the ethnographic details of legal proceedings as she demonstrates how Indians, in particular, came to be the masters of witchcraft, a domain of power that drew on gendered and hegemonic caste distinctions to complicate the colonial hierarchy. She also reveals the ways in which blacks, mulattoes, and mestizos mediated between Spaniards and Indians, alternatively reinforcing Spanish authority and challenging it through alliances with Indians. Bringing to life colonial subjects as they testified about their experiences, Hall of Mirrors discloses a series of contradictions that complicate easy distinctions between subalterns and elites, resistance and power.
Author : Homero Aridjis
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 30,28 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780811215091
"New Directions continues its public service to literature with this lively introduction to contemporary Mexican poet-diplomat Homero Aridjis."--"Publishers Weekly."
Author : Guillermo Bonfil Batalla
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 44,39 MB
Release : 2010-06-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0292791852
This translation of a major work in Mexican anthropology argues that Mesoamerican civilization is an ongoing and undeniable force in contemporary Mexican life. For Guillermo Bonfil Batalla, the remaining Indian communities, the "de-Indianized" rural mestizo communities, and vast sectors of the poor urban population constitute the México profundo. Their lives and ways of understanding the world continue to be rooted in Mesoamerican civilization. An ancient agricultural complex provides their food supply, and work is understood as a way of maintaining a harmonious relationship with the natural world. Health is related to human conduct, and community service is often part of each individual's life obligation. Time is circular, and humans fulfill their own cycle in relation to other cycles of the universe. Since the Conquest, Bonfil argues, the peoples of the México profundo have been dominated by an "imaginary México" imposed by the West. It is imaginary not because it does not exist, but because it denies the cultural reality lived daily by most Mexicans. Within the México profundo there exists an enormous body of accumulated knowledge, as well as successful patterns for living together and adapting to the natural world. To face the future successfully, argues Bonfil, Mexico must build on these strengths of Mesoamerican civilization, "one of the few original civilizations that humanity has created throughout all its history."
Author : William H. Beezley
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 30,69 MB
Release : 2011-09-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0195153812
Drawing on materials ranging from archaeological findings to recent studies of migration issues and drug violence, William H. Beezley provides a dramatic narrative of human events as he recounts the story of Mexico in the context of world history. Beginning with the Mayan and Aztec civilizations and their brutal defeat at the hands of the Conquistadors, Beezley discusses Spain's three-hundred-year colonial rule, foreign invasions and huge territorial losses at the hands of the United States, and conditions in Mexico today.
Author : Thomas Edward Gibbon
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 31,77 MB
Release : 2015-06-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781330235591
Excerpt from Mexico Under Carranza: A Lawyer's Indictment of the Crowning Infamy of Four Hundred Years of Misrule How are the people of Mexico faring under Carranza? What is the character of the Carranza administration? Are our relations with the present Mexican Government satisfactory or otherwise? How have Americans resident in Mexico been treated? What are the facts about investments of Americans and other aliens and what relation have these investments borne to the country's economic welfare? How have the Carrancistas treated these investments? What is the underlying cause of the woes that have beset the Mexican people since they began experimenting with self-government nearly a century ago? Is there a remedy for these evils - any hope for the future? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Jeanine Cummins
Publisher : Holt Paperbacks
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,33 MB
Release : 2022-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1250209781
"También de este lado hay sueños. On this side, too, there are dreams. Lydia Quixano Perez lives in the Mexican city of Acapulco. She runs a bookstore. She has a son, Luca, the love of her life, and a wonderful husband who is a journalist. And while there are cracks beginning to show in Acapulco because of the drug cartels, her life is, by and large, fairly comfortable. Even though she knows they'll never sell, Lydia stocks some of her all-time favorite books in her store. And then one day a man enters the shop to browse and comes up to the register with four books he would like to buy--two of them her favorites. Javier is erudite. He is charming. And, unbeknownst to Lydia, he is the jefe of the newest drug cartel that has gruesomely taken over the city. When Lydia's husband's tell-all profile of Javier is published, none of their lives will ever be the same. Forced to flee, Lydia and eight-year-old Luca soon find themselves miles and worlds away from their comfortable middle-class existence. Instantly transformed into migrants, Lydia and Luca ride la bestia--trains that make their way north toward the United States, which is the only place Javier's reach doesn't extend. As they join the countless people trying to reach el norte, Lydia soon sees that everyone is running from something. But what exactly are they running to? American Dirt will leave readers utterly changed when they finish reading it. A page-turner filled with poignancy, drama, and humanity on every page, it is a literary achievement."--