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Mexico Otherwise

Mexico Otherwise
Author: Jürgen Buchenau
Publisher: UNM Press
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2005
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780826323132

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A diverse collection of observations on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Mexico by non-Mexican authors.


Cartographic Mexico

Cartographic Mexico
Author: Raymond B. Craib
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2004
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780822334163

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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.


Hall of Mirrors

Hall of Mirrors
Author: Laura A. Lewis
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2003-09-05
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0822385155

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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.


Indian Given

Indian Given
Author: María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 371
Release: 2016-03-31
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0822374927

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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.


Women and Migration in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands

Women and Migration in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
Author: Denise A. Segura
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 620
Release: 2007
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780822341185

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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.


Wandering Peoples

Wandering Peoples
Author: Cynthia Radding Murrieta
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 436
Release: 1997
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780822318996

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Throughout this anthropological history, Radding presents multilayered meanings of culture, community, and ecology, and discusses both the colonial policies to which peasant communities were subjected and the responses they developed to adapt and resist them.


American Dirt

American Dirt
Author: Jeanine Cummins
Publisher: Thorndike Press Large Print
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2020-02-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781432872243

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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 cracks are beginning to show in Acapulco because of the drug cartels, her life is, by and large, reasonably 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.


Mexico in World History

Mexico in World History
Author: William H. Beezley
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 201
Release: 2011-09-29
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0195153812

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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.


Images at War

Images at War
Author: Serge Gruzinski
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2001-06-08
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780822326434

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DIVExplores Mexico and its romance with the image as well as othe issues of Spanish colonialism./div


Down and Delirious in Mexico City

Down and Delirious in Mexico City
Author: Daniel Hernandez
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2011-02-08
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 1451610181

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MEXICO CITY, with some 20 million inhabitants, is the largest city in the Western Hemisphere. Enormous growth, raging crime, and tumultuous politics have also made it one of the most feared and misunderstood. Yet in the past decade, the city has become a hot spot for international business, fashion, and art, and a magnet for thrill-seeking expats from around the world. In 2002, Daniel Hernandez traveled to Mexico City, searching for his cultural roots. He encountered a city both chaotic and intoxicating, both underdeveloped and hypermodern. In 2007, after quitting a job, he moved back. With vivid, intimate storytelling, Hernandez visits slums populated by ex-punks; glittering, drug-fueled fashion parties; and pseudo-native rituals catering to new-age Mexicans. He takes readers into the world of youth subcultures, in a city where punk and emo stand for a whole way of life—and sometimes lead to rumbles on the streets. Surrounded by volcanoes, earthquake-prone, and shrouded in smog, the city that Hernandez lovingly chronicles is a place of astounding manifestations of danger, desire, humor, and beauty, a surreal landscape of “cosmic violence.” For those who care about one of the most electrifying cities on the planet, “Down & Delirious in Mexico City is essential reading” (David Lida, author of First Stop in the New World).