Vaughan / Lewis The Eagle and the Virgin

Nation and Cultural Revolution in Mexico, 1920–1940
1. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8752-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 395 Seiten

Collection of essays, aimed at an undergraduate audience, focusing on cultural policy and production after the Mexican revolution.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Vaughan, Mary Kay

Lewis, Stephen

Weitere Mitwirkende

Lopez, Rick A.

Rochfort, Desmond

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations xii

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction / Mary Kay Vaughan and Stephen E. Lewis 1

I. The Aesthetics of Nation Building

The Noche Mexicana and the Exhibition of Popular Arts:

Two Ways of Exalting Indianness / Rick A. Lopez 23

The Sickle, the Serpent, and the Soil: History, Revolution, Nationhood, and Modernity in the Murals of Diego Rivera, Jose Clemente Orozco, and David Alfaro Siqueiros / Desmond Rochfort 43

Painting in the Shadow of the Big Three

Frida Kahlo / Sarah M. Lowe 53

Maria Izquierdo / Adrianna Zavala 67

The Mexican Experience of Marion and Grace Greenwood / James Oles 79

Mestizaje and Musical Nationalism in Mexico/ Marco Velazquez and Mary Kay Vaughan 95

Revolution in the City Streets: Changing Nomenclature, Changing Form, and the Revision of Public Memory / Patrice Elizabeth Olsen 119

II. Utopian Projects of the State

Saints, Sinners, and the State Formation: Local Religion and Cultural Revolution in Mexico / Adrian A. Bantjes 137

Nationalizing the Countryside: Schools and Rural Communities in the 1930’s / Mary Kay Vaughan 157

The Nation, Education, and the “Indian Problem” in Mexico, 1920–1940 / Stephen E. Lewis 176

For the Health of the Nation: Gender and the Cultural Politics of Social Hygiene in Revolutionary Mexico / Katherine E. Bliss 196

III. Mass Communication and Nation Building

Remapping Identities: Road Construction and Nation Building in Postrevolutionary Mexico / Wendy Waters 221

National Imaginings on the Air: Radio in Mexico, 1920–1950 / Joy Elizabeth Hayes 243

Screening the Nation / Joanne Hershfield 259

IV. Social Construction of Nations

An Idea of Mexico: Catholics in the Revolution / Jean Meyer 281

Guadalajaran Women and the Construction of National Identity / Maria Teresa Fernandez Aceves 297

“We Are All Mexicans Here”: Workers, Patriotism, and Union Struggles in Monterrey / Michael Snodgrass 314

Final Reflections: What Was Mexico’s Cultural Revolution? / Claudio Lomnitz 335

Contributors 351

Index 357

Über Autor(innen)

Mary Kay Vaughan is Professor of History at the University of Maryland, College Park. Her books include Cultural Politics in Revolution: Teachers, Peasants, and Schools in Mexico, 1930–1940. She is a coeditor of the journal Hispanic American Historical Review.Stephen E. Lewis is Associate Professor of History at California State University, Chico. He is the author of The Ambivalent Revolution: Forging State and Nation in Chiapas, 1910–1945.