I. The search for "Lo Mexicano". The Mexican character / Joel Poinsett--The cosmic race / José ... Vasconcelos--The sons of La Malinche / Octavio Paz--The problem of national culture / Guillermo Bonfil Batalla--How to tame a wild tongue / Gloria Anzaldúa--Mexico City, 1992 / Alma Guillermoprieto--Two Ranchera songs / José Alfredo Jiménez and Cuco Sánchez Read MoreII. Ancient civilizations. The origins of the Aztec / Anonymous--The Feast of the Flaying of Men / ... Inga Clendinnen--The Totocalli (Motecuhzoma's 'Zoo') / Andrés Bustamante Agudelo and Israel Elizalde Méndez--The meaning of maize for the Maya / J. Eric Thompson--Omens foretelling the conquest / Anonymous Read MoreIII. Conquest and colony. The Spaniards' entry into Tenochtitlán / Bernal Díaz del Castillo and ... Hernán Cortés--Cortés and Montezuma / J.H. Elliott--The Battles of Tenochtitlán and Tlatelolco / Anonymous--The spiritual conquest / Fray Jerónimo de Mendieta--Why the Indians are dying / Alonso de Zorita--A Baroque Archbishop-Viceroy / Irving Leonard--On men's hypocrisy / Sor Juana--Whites, Negros, castes / Alexander von Humboldt--The itching parrot, the priest, and the subdelegate / José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi Read MoreIV. Trials of the young Republic. The siege of Guanajuato / Lucas Alamán--Sentiments of the nation / ... José María Morelos--Plan of Iguala / Agustín de Iturbide--Women and war in Mexico / Frances Calderón de la Barca--The glorious revolution of 1844 / Guillermo Prieto--Décimas dedicated to Santa Anna's leg / Anonymous--A conservative profession of faith / The editors of El Tiempo--Considerations relating to the political and social situation / Mariano Otero--Liberals and the land / Luis González y González--Standard plots and rural resistance / Raymond B. Craib--Offer of the crown to Maximilian / Junta of Conservative Notables--A letter from Mexico / Empress Carlotta--The triumph of the Republic / Benito Juárez--Porfirio Díaz visits Yucatán / Channing Arnold and Frederick J. Tabor Frost--Scenes from a lumber camp / B. Traven--President Díaz, hero of the Americas / James Creelman--Gift of the skeletons / Anonymous Read MoreSpecial Section. Mexican history in photographs / John Mraz V. Revolution. Land and liberty / Ricardo Flores Magón--Plan of Ayala / Emiliano Zapata--The ... restoration of the Ejido / Luis Cabrera--Zapatistas in the palace / Martín Luis Guzmán--Mexico has been turned into a hell / William O. Jenkins--Pancho Villa / John Reed--La punitiva / Anonymous--Pedro Martínez / Oscar Lewis--Amelio Robles's gender battles in the Zapatista Army / Gabriela Cano--Juan the Chamula / Ricardo Pozas--The Constitution of 1917 : Articles 27 and 123--An agrarian encounter / Rosalie Evans--Ode to Cuauhtémoc / Carlos Pellicer--The socialist ABC's / Anonymous--The ballad of Valentín de la Sierra / Anonymous--Mexico must become a nation of institutions and laws / Plutarco Elías Calles--The formation of the single-party state / Carlos Fuentes--The rough and tumble career of Pedro Crespo / Gilbert M. Joseph and Allen Wells--A convention in Zacapu / Salvador Lemus Fernández--The agrarian reform in La Laguna / Fernando Benítez--The oil expropriation / Josephus Daniels Read MoreVI. The perils of modernity.They gave us the land / Juan Rulfo--Mexico's crisis / Daniel Cosío ... Villegas--Struggles of a campesino leader / Rubén Jaramillo--Art and corruption / David Alfaro Siqueiros--The two faces of Acapulco during the Golden Age / Andrew Sackett--The dark deeds of "El Negro" Durazo / José González G--The sinking city / Joel Simon--Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl / Roberto Vallarino--Roma exposes Mexico's darkest secrets / Marcela García--Modesta Gómez / Rosario Castellanos--La Costa Chica and the struggles of Mexico's "third root" / Gonzalo Aguirre Beltran--Afro-Mexican militancy on the Costa Chica Read MoreVII. From the ruins. The student movement of 1968 / Elena Poniatowska--El Santo's strange career / ... Anne Rubenstein--After the earthquake / Victims' Coordinating Council--Letters to Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas / Anonymous--Identity hour / Carlos Monsiváis--The political manifesto of the COCEI of Juchitan, Oaxaca / The COCEI--Women of Juchitán / Jeffrey W. Rubin--EZLN demands at the dialogue table / Zapatista Army of National Liberation--A Tzotzil chronicle / Marián Peres Tsu--Debtors' revenge / Heather Williams Read MoreVIII. The border and beyond. The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo--Plan of San Diego / Anonymous--The ... "wetback invasion" / Timothy J. Henderson--The high cost of deportation / Julia Preston--A Honduran teenager's odyssey across borders / Sonia Nazario--Two poems about immigrant life / Pat Mora and Gina Valdés--The Maquiladora workers of Juárez find their voice / David Bacon--Dompe days / Luis Alberto Urrea--Two songs about drug smuggling / Paulino Vargas and Chalino Sánchez--"We are more American" / Enrique Valencia Read MoreIX. From the perfect dictatorship to an imperfect democracy. Mexicans would not be bought, coerced / ... Wayne A. Cornelius--Assessing NAFTA : before and after / Mark Weisbrot and Vicente Fox--Ayotzinapa : a father's testimony / John Gibler--The narco who died twice / Ioan Grillo--The promise and peril of López Obrador / Denise Dresser--AMLO on corruption / Andrés Manuel López Obrador--Traditional medicine in modern Mexico and the challenge of COVID-19 / Gabriela Soto--Laveaga and the Nich Ixim Midwives Movement--Should I die abroad, bring me back to Mexico / Jorge Ramos. Read More |
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